Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:19:21 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Responding to a challenge Message-ID: <20100419141921.098cca48@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20100419140300.2cffdba6@ernst.jennejohn.org> References: <20100419035243.GA4554@goodking.goodking.ca> <20100419112228.GB70334@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20100419140300.2cffdba6@ernst.jennejohn.org>
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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
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