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Re: DAK Commands for Bikesheds



On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 04:39:43PM +0100, Wookey wrote:
> +++ Raphael Hertzog [2015-09-17 14:41 +0200]:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Thu, 17 Sep 2015, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> > > Please check if I forgot something obvious or if there is some big error
> > > in it. Patches/git trees to merge from/... are welcome.
> > 
> > Please don't call this feature "Bikesheds" and don't hardcode this naming
> > in the suggested API. It was funny during one Debconf talk... but it won't
> > be funny in the long term.
> 
> It wasn't supposed to be a joke. Bikeshed is an appropriate name, in
> the unix tradition of mildly amusing/punny names.

On the other hand, neither this thread nor any other d-d thread
that I can find explains what the feature is... so to those who weren't
aware of the name already, it doesn't mean anything :)

>From the context I take it to be a new name for "PPA"s - in which case
thank you for working on this feature!

Cheers,
Dominic.


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