Felipe Contreras wrote: >> Also we heard from no regular/high-value reviewers >> that they feel comfortable reviewing additions in Ruby. > > Correction; *current* regular/high-value reviewers. Correct. The opinions of inactive community members and non-contributors are less useful. > We could change, and we would probably receive a big influx of fresh > contributors happy that they can contribute in their favorite > language. But we won't do that, why? Because you already decided > that's not going to happen, because you are making the false > assumption that things in the future can only be like things have been > in the past. Okay, so here's the deal: commit a lot of good ruby code to contrib*, and attract users/ contributors. Eventually, if you're right about git.git growing a healthy ruby ecosystem, we'll get ruby in core. As I've said multiple times, this agenda-based approach just sucks, because we can't predict the future. * I'll help out in whatever little way I can -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html