What does bikeshedding mean?
Bikeshedding means Futile expenditure of time and energy in discussion of marginal technical issues..
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Futile expenditure of time and energy in discussion of marginal technical issues..
Exactly. Bikeshedding the millions of possible reasons the queue/ratelimit was triggered is silly.
Modulo giving developers and the user community a few weeks to comment on the matter and make any last convincing cases for keeping it, I agree. That's not to say that I want to see two weeks worth of i386 bike-shedding and highly emotional arguments for keeping it purely on general principle, I'm saying that we need to let a couple of weeks go by so that along with the emotional bike sheds, anyone with a *technical* argument for retaining support has a chance to be heard.
Hmm. Sounds like my RFC is taken to be a RFB (Request For Bikeshedding).
So.. What do people think? Let the bikeshedding begin...
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Bikeshedding means Futile expenditure of time and energy in discussion of marginal technical issues..
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Exactly. Bikeshedding the millions of possible reasons the queue/ratelimit was triggered is silly.
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