Re: [Administrivia] On ruby and contrib/

From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 8, 2013, 02:23 UTC
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On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 3:24 AM, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:

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>> The reviewer pool for code written in a new language _must_ be
>> seeded by some from the current set of reviewers whose judgement
>> I/we can trust.
>
> By that standard nothing will ever change. Ever.
>
> Even twenty years from now, you will still only trust people that are
> familiar with shell, Perl, and C. Because the only way to gain your
> trust, is by being proficient in shell, Perl, and C.

I don't see why a trusted person cannot learn a new language and convince the community to give it a try (well given that enough reviewers support the new language, which was Junio's point). -- Duy