From: Felipe Contreras Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2013 10:08:28 GMT Subject: Re: [Administrivia] On ruby and contrib/ Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Duy Nguyen wrote: > On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 3:24 AM, Felipe Contreras > wrote: >>> 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). I do. Raise your hand if you are interested in giving a try to Ruby for Git's core given that somebody gives convincing reasons? How many hands do you expect? -- Felipe Contreras