From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jul 17 12:55:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F16B37BAC4 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 12:55:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA37368; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 21:55:29 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) To: Michael Lucas Cc: alex@big.endian.de (Alexander Langer), freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bikesheds References: <200007171805.OAA05517@blackhelicopters.org> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 17 Jul 2000 21:55:29 +0200 In-Reply-To: Michael Lucas's message of "Mon, 17 Jul 2000 14:05:16 -0400 (EDT)" Message-ID: Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Michael Lucas writes: > It's like construction work. Very few people can build a skyscraper, > but anyone can build a bike shed. > > When someone mentions "painting the bikeshed" it means "we've argued > about this long enough, most of the solutions are just fine, will you > please just implement one and SHUT UP?" Bzzt, wrong, but thanks for playing. A bikeshed discussion is a discussion about a bikeshed which everyone agrees would be nice to have in the back yard, but will fight until death to stop it from being built because, as they repeatedly and loudly point out, the suggested paint scheme is just *wrong*. I seem to recall this actually refers to a true story about a real bikeshed; ask phk for details. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message