Christian PERRIER <bubu...@debian.org> writes:

> And for ${deity}'s sake, people […] should stop talking about
> 'bikeshedding' [which has the condescending] implication: the
> discussion is useless.
>
> This discussion is not.
>
> We will have to live with whatever group name we choose now for
> *years*, so better carefully choose it now.

Bravo! Just because some discussions about details are futile, many
discussions about details are necessary to avoid future problems. The
mis-application of the “bikeshed” label is toxic to fixing small
problems before they become bigger.

Thanks, Christian.

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Ben Finney

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