Meaning of bikeshedding | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Futile expenditure of time and energy in discussion of marginal technical issues.
   uncountable
2. Procrastination.
   uncountable

Examples

“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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