From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 13 18:17:50 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6461F16A4CE; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 18:17:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-in.m-online.net (svr8.m-online.net [62.245.150.237]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B0BD43D49; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 18:17:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from h@schmalzbauer.de) Received: from mail.m-online.net (svr14.m-online.net [192.168.3.144]) by svr8.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0D1DF343; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 03:17:46 +0100 (CET) Received: from cale.flintsbach.schmalzbauer.de (ppp-62-245-210-106.mnet-online.de [62.245.210.106]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BCBA35E79; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 03:17:46 +0100 (CET) From: Harald Schmalzbauer To: Robert Watson , Peter Schultz Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 03:17:40 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: In-Reply-To: X-Birthday: 06 Oktober 1972 X-Name: Harald Schmalzbauer X-Phone1: +49 (0) 163 555 3237 X-Phone2: +49 (0) 89 18947781 X-Address: Munich, 80686 X-Country: Germany MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_KbKBAoWHoKL4Gjs"; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200401140317.46071@harrymail> cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bikeshed Reports [was: Status reports - why not regularly?] X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 02:17:50 -0000 --Boundary-02=_KbKBAoWHoKL4Gjs Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 14 January 2004 03:06, Robert Watson wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Peter Schultz wrote: > > Over 2003 I inadvertently started around four bikesheds. Every time it > > happened I wanted to document it so that the beating of dead horses > > could be kept to a minimum. It would basically list items of great > > contention or things that just plain need a good hacker's attention. > > > > Hindsight is 20/20, but I think a resource like this would have > > prevented me from pushing people's buttons. It's not all that easy to > > harvest bikeshed discussions from the mailing lists, and a lot of them > > have to do with issues that end users are interested in. I adore > > FreeBSD volunteers and don't like to see them bothered with what color > > to paint a bikeshed. > > > > I can dig up something on this if it's of interest to people. > > I'd be happy to help set up a www.freebsd.org/project/bikeshed web page to > hold the hard-earned results of your research. Although perhaps they > actually belong in the FAQ :-). This sounds great! And I hav an idea about the very first pragraph: What th= e=20 hack is bikeshed? =46rom the context I guess it's something like braindamaged circumstance/id= ea. But no dictionary has helped me so far. It also looks to be FreeBSD specifi= c,=20 isn't it? Thank you, =2DHarry > > Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects > robert@fledge.watson.org Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --Boundary-02=_KbKBAoWHoKL4Gjs Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBABKbKBylq0S4AzzwRAkSTAJ0blYZZBQu2HQtsw/HKThHr4FjefACdHtGb GOuR4CiMzU0kVeuwbmDOUfQ= =Nahp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_KbKBAoWHoKL4Gjs--