October 2005
Beginner to intermediate
302 pages
10h 1m
English
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Appendix C. Why Should I Care What Color the Bikeshed Is?
You shouldn’t; it doesn’t really matter, and you have better things to spend your time on.
Poul-Henning Kamp’s famous “bikeshed” post (an excerpt from which appears in Chapter 6) is an eloquent disquisition on what tends to go wrong in group discussions. It is reprinted here with his permission. The orginal URL is http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=506636+517178+/usr/local/www/db/text/1999/freebsd-hackers/19991003.freebsd-hackers.
Subject: A bike shed (any colour will do) on greener grass... From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 16:14:10 +0200 Message-ID: <18238.938873650@critter.freebsd.dk> Sender: phk@critter.freebsd.dk Bcc: Blind Distribution List: ; MIME-Version: 1.0 [bcc'ed to committers, hackers] My last pamphlet was sufficiently well received that I was not scared away from sending another one, and today I have the time and inclination to do so. I've had a little trouble with deciding on the right distribution of this kind of stuff, this time it is bcc'ed to committers and hackers, that is probably the best I can do. I'm not subscribed to hackers myself but more on that later. The thing which have triggered me this time is the "sleep(1) should do fractional seconds" thread, which have pestered our lives for many days now, it's probably already a couple of weeks, I can't even be bothered to check. To those of you who have missed this particular thread: Congratulations. It was a proposal ...
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