On Aug 17, 2014 10:58 AM, "Paul Wouters" <paul(_at_)nohats(_dot_)ca> wrote:
On Sat, 16 Aug 2014, Nico Williams wrote:
However a quick search on the term produced some troubling existing
usages that conflict with the usage in the draft:
Bikeshedding is what this is.
Except in this day, the bikeshed needn't have a name. Our products are
RFC numbers. As I said before, why define a term that we can't agree on?
Jonh Doe: this is a new utility shed design, it's highly portable and
variably sized.
Jane Doe: but the examples are kinda focused on bikes, and anyways, that's
what it's clearly designed around, so just call it a bikeshed.
John: but you could store lawnmowers, shovels, ..
Jane: your use of the term general utility is not really common place and
no one well understand it.
John: you're just bikeshedding!
Jane: see? it's a bikeshed, and anyways, i don't care what color you paint
it, this is about the name of the thing.
:)
IMO it's bikeshedding the name. We could be minting new words and it
wouldn't be a problem: because by giving them this meaning we'd overcome
the objection that until now they were meaningless.y
I assume there are no objections to the substance now. Publish it!
Nico
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