From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Felipe Contreras Subject: Re: [Administrivia] On ruby and contrib/ Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2013 05:08:28 -0500 Message-ID: References: <7vtxld30f2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7va9n52zjc.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vd2ryueuu.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vsj0tsnjw.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Junio C Hamano , Ramkumar Ramachandra , David Lang , Greg Troxel , Git Mailing List , Jeff King , Jonathan Nieder , Thomas Rast , =?UTF-8?Q?Ren=C3=A9_Scharfe?= , Michael Haggerty , Matthieu Moy , Ramsay Jones , Erik Faye-Lund , Johannes Sixt , Johannes Schindelin To: Duy Nguyen X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jun 08 12:08:37 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UlG4Y-0006hm-L8 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Jun 2013 12:08:34 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751954Ab3FHKIb (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Jun 2013 06:08:31 -0400 Received: from mail-la0-f45.google.com ([209.85.215.45]:34851 "EHLO mail-la0-f45.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751935Ab3FHKIa (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Jun 2013 06:08:30 -0400 Received: by mail-la0-f45.google.com with SMTP id fr10so4454968lab.18 for ; Sat, 08 Jun 2013 03:08:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=MQi+NmrSRKToKTy+WsnlivMtdp/JL8n+D3IjZD/rn0I=; b=JfPazE29FEblai72GYtbtI8woY+x7WORt2ULxP5m3HthPJ3NdWFNoBJnto7ORpNuHV Ir+tn1oYIuQyDmU86ZdaC5EKAMcOOLPc05f4PTGSSAN47+MafI73mvMsrdJHuChw9uM3 6ejf9R2a7n2BDSeG40pCmJsJeHg+V2Y5LnR1QkLktTaE77dJJZF1rEVEfHphHxcn7C8M +wW4hM2LwfEVEnlnaxYHmQChsTh4twY/oFSZFEoJuqHJ7egS6jEIoezJ16cZzxMZyDBd JSwii7K2LL3M0OeAeh7zvdafskfIYX8O8gdX9cbM1d5D5uPOzGos2U1csKM/zsTMAZbZ LjWA== X-Received: by 10.112.52.97 with SMTP id s1mr2887315lbo.8.1370686108562; Sat, 08 Jun 2013 03:08:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.59.202 with HTTP; Sat, 8 Jun 2013 03:08:28 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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