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On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:03:00 +0200
Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de> wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:22:30 +0100
> Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> > By the way, what is "bikeshed" in fbsd context?
> > 
> 
> This was coined by phk@.
> 
> Basically, it means people will send endless posts on minor issues
> because they feel they understand them.  Important and/or complex
> issues generally get little response on the MLs.


http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#BIKESHED-PAINTING