Responding to a challenge

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 3:19 PM, RW <rwmaillists at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:03:00 +0200
> Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn at freenet.de> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:22:30 +0100
> > Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
> >
> > > By the way, what is "bikeshed" in fbsd context?
> > >
> >
> > This was coined by phk at .
> >
> > 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
>

and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_Law_of_Triviality

HTH
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Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen