Someone wrote (I can't work out who in the nested quotes): > There is a strong British tradition, exported to a range of other > countries, of engineers toiling away in garden sheds, inventing > stuff - be it cars, engines, radios, metalwork, carpentry ... > anything someone can produce which requires only heating, lighting, > power and time. It's quite natural that toiling away in your own > little packaging world for Debian would happen in a software shed - > and in software, there's only really one kind of shed, the > bikeshed.
While the 'Gentleman's Shed' concept might be a British Tradition that is *not* the meaning of 'bikeshedding'! 'Bikeshedding' is the situation where a group of people (politely) argue about some pointless feature of a project while totally ignoring the actual original question/problem. A typical example would be the question of the best way to store bikes in a shed and then having people spend all of their time talking about what colour the shed should be painted! As a result, the term 'bikeshedding' has become a term for meaningless derogatory discussion. We certainly (imho) don't want anything in Debian given that description . Colin -- Colin Tuckley | +44(0)1223 830814 | PGP/GnuPG Key Id Debian Developer | +44(0)7799 143369 | 0x38C9D903
