On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 6:20 AM, Duy Nguyen <pclo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Felipe Contreras > <felipe.contre...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Duy Nguyen <pclo...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 3:24 AM, Felipe Contreras >>> <felipe.contre...@gmail.com> 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? > > Personally, no additional runtime dependency > Ruby > Python.
You forgot to list the current ones; shell, perl, python. > I don't > think Ruby is available on SunOS and I prefer not to build and install > Python nor Ruby myself to be able to use Git. So no hands from me. It doesn't surprise me that you stopped at an assumption, instead of making sure. >> How many hands do you expect? > > If not many hands show up, the Git community clearly is not ready to > adopt Ruby. And they will never be. Nor Ruby nor anything else, which was precisely my point. > Maybe ask again next year when Ruby is getting more popular? You will stop again with another assumption, without ever giving it a chance. -- Felipe Contreras -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
