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). -- Duy -- 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
