Parkinson's law of triviality <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law_of_triviality>
On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Randy Zwitch <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday, December 2, 2015 at 3:12:36 AM UTC-5, Tomas Lycken wrote: >> >> Also, the naming discussion here is not *only* on naming; it's also on >> the possibility of including *more things *in the package. I would be >> all for having a package like Palettes.jl, which would include both >> NoveltyColors.jl and other palettes, but that's not in conflict with the >> current package - it's an extension, that might happen tomorrow, in a year, >> or never at all, depending on whether someone actually finds it useful >> enough to implement it. >> > > People are free to extend my package as much as they like, or create a > wrapper package that aggregates all these different packages. Not sure why > that needs a waiting period for my package. > > On Wednesday, December 2, 2015 at 1:22:21 PM UTC-5, [email protected] > wrote: >> >> I'm using [ColorSchemes.jl](https://github.com/cormullion/ColorSchemes.jl) >> for my own purposes, but I'm happy to rename it if someone else wants the >> name. > > > Is this on METADATA? I thought I had checked, but maybe I had missed. If > so, then it makes my package a bit redundant, as I could've submitted a PR > to your package. > > On Wednesday, December 2, 2015 at 1:39:09 PM UTC-5, Stefan Karpinski wrote: >> >> I'm still pretty unclear on what makes a color scheme a novelty. >> >> > I don't know, it seemed like having a plot based on the colors from the > Grand Budapest Hotel or an outfit Beyonce wore would be a novelty, as > opposed to something like ColorBrewer which explicitly tries to provide > schemes that improve cartography. Since Tim has a majority of the commits > on Color.jl and he thought it was an idea that stood on its own (per my > reading into his approval comment above), I went with it. I really didn't > think it would be this contentious. > > > >
