Naming of Bike Sheds [Re: on the "M" of "NM"]
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- Subject: Naming of Bike Sheds [Re: on the "M" of "NM"]
- From: Don Armstrong <don@debian.org>
- Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 11:34:22 -0700
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On Mon, 03 Oct 2011, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> it gets much more about bike-shedding than about taking a clear
> decision.
No, it's about transportation storage. Not everyone rides a bike, and
not every thing you store transportation in is a shed. We don't want
to have unicycle riders leaving their wheel out in the weather, or
people becoming confused by oversized lockers.
Don Armstrong
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