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> The act of wasting time on trivial details while important matters are inadequately attended is sometimes known as bikeshedding.

Never heard that term before, but it does, in fact, seem to describe a lot of Canonical's issues in the past decade.



See "Why should I care what color the bikeshed is?" [0] for the reference, if you're interested (and/or "Law of triviality" [1]).

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[0]: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.h...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality


Do you have an example of bikeshedding from a FLOSS mailing list?


PHK's e-mail from 20 years ago (included/linked above) is the canonical example.

I, personally, don't have any examples ready to provide you but I no longer subscribe to any "general discussion" lists.




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