I mean does it have to be a bike shed or can I put my boat in it? On a more serious note, I think all this bikeshedding reveals a big problem we have. It is very hard to reach consensus on many topics and it seems one person saying no has more weight than 10 people say yes.
Bikeshedding prevents: * more interesting discussions about how we can improve the security of the bikeshed * can be deflating - giving the sense that the bike shed will never actually be painted, will never actually exist and I will never buy a bike and never go on wonderful bike rides. * can put people off who see that other community projects already have a painted bikeshed that is more interesting and worthy of attention * can cause broken windows - since everyone is discussing the bikeshed no one is paying attention to all the bricks some kids are throwing through the windows at night and the whole of the community centre is falling apart. Also this becomes infectious and other kids start adding graffiti to walls (well there are already broken windows....) Suggested solution: Maybe some kind of voting system might be of use to force some kind of consensus rather than leaving problems unsolved. I'm fed up of receiving emails about the same problem I discussed weeks before that never got solved. It makes my mailbox ill. I mean if the question is really what colour is the bikeshed it would be good for people to propose colours, people to vote on preferred colours and at the end of say a week the majority colour wins and gets implemented (or in cases where there is no majority we discuss the front runners and other possible solutions). On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Magnus Manske <[email protected]> wrote: > Blue, and bigger on the inside. > > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Yuvi Panda <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It's actually a bus, not a bikeshed. It is already painted. And vim is >> obviously the better editor. >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Jon Robson http://jonrobson.me.uk @rakugojon _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
