Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 12:52:32 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Johnson David <DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What are they talking about??? Message-ID: <20040109022232.GD7617@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200401081159.41767.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> References: <005601c3d61e$fcad88e0$0100007f@kafu.east.kz> <200401081159.41767.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com>
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--R7WL3tS/SfNiSAWN Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday, 8 January 2004 at 11:59:41 -0800, Johnson David wrote: > On Thursday 08 January 2004 09:05 am, Andrew Predoehl wrote: >> Hello! I'm reading with some interest the tempest that's a-blowin' >> on -chat, and as a newbie, I just got here and I'm wondering what the >> heck these people are talking about. A few questions (not -questions >> questions, just newbie questions): What's bikeshedding, or a >> bikeshed disagreement? What's the heck are GEOM and SMP? What's a >> WIKI? Anybody know a dictionary of these acronyms that I read all >> the time? I can figure out 90% of them but some of them (like PITA*) >> leave me mystified... > > Ha! > > Bikeshedding is discussed in the FreeBSD FAQ. As far as I know (AFAIK), > this term is only used regularly in the BSD communities. In essence, it > refers to a Bikeshed Construction Committee, where people who know > nothing about building bikesheds argue over what color the bikeshed > should be. They're not doing this to be destructive or argumentative, > but they are keenly interested in bikesheds, but not knowing anything > about it, fallback to discussions of colors. Hmm, not quite. Building a bike shed isn't difficult, so everybody wants to chip in. By contrast, design considerations for SMP are difficult, so only few people get involved. The implication is thus that simple questions get discussed to death, while the complicated ones get few answers, quite the contrary of what people want. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --R7WL3tS/SfNiSAWN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE//hBoIubykFB6QiMRAgHhAKCvSOQ1AOEYbHDIvqCdyQPGEL4OjQCfZj2f sQVX3xtfB0DeO6lsWggjLlg= =KYOa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --R7WL3tS/SfNiSAWN--
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