If you have ever spent time reading the FreeBSDŽ developer mailing lists, you will already know what a bikeshed is and have your favorite color picked out. Managment consultant C. Northcote Parkinson once observed that it would be easier to get the average board of directors to approve building a multi-billion dollar nuclear power plant than a simple bikeshed, because the board members would be incapable of understanding the plans for the power plant, anyone can understand the plans for a bikeshed so everyone will want to contribute. In the open source world, calls for review of complex code often go unanswered while the simplest changes are discussed at length. See: http://www.unixguide.net/freebsd/faq/16.19.shtml |
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