On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 12:17:22PM +0200, Mathias Behrle wrote: > * Neil Williams: " Re: DAK Commands for Bikesheds" (Thu, 17 Sep 2015 17:44:11 +0100): > > On Thu, 17 Sep 2015 17:20:21 +0100 Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > > > > There is a strong British tradition, exported to a range of other > > countries, of engineers toiling away in garden sheds, inventing stuff - > > be it cars, engines, radios, metalwork, carpentry ... anything someone > > can produce which requires only heating, lighting, power and time. It's > > quite natural that toiling away in your own little packaging world for > > Debian would happen in a software shed - and in software, there's only > > really one kind of shed, the bikeshed. > > Thanks, that explains the term quite well for people like me not being familiar > at all with the meaning. I understand now, that the term sounds funny for people > knowing that tradition, for me it was quite incomprehensible and not intuitive. > Searching on the web revealed indeed 'bike sheds' as in 'Outdoor Portable > Garage Shed'. I think other people could be in the same position and just not > get the idea what the feature inside Debian shall mean. > > I think that a more general and descriptive name like the proposed > "(Special|Developer|Custom) Package (Repository|Archive)" would be more helpful > for quite a number of users, including me. Recovering what was deleted from this thread: } > > >From the context I take it to be a new name for "PPA"s - in which } > > >case thank you for working on this feature! } > } > ... and that's part of the reason to call them bikesheds - these aren't } > a new name for PPAs or a version of PPAs for Debian. These are official } > hacking space within the Debian project for packages which - for any } > number of reasons - just aren't ready to leave the shed yet (or should } > be put back into the shed to get out of the hair of those trying to } > *actually do a release*). } > } > It looks like a shed, it sounds like a shed, it's a shed. } > } > There is no time or appetite for another round of bikeshedding and we } > don't need more TLAs, please allow dak to get me a bikeshed soon! } > please! } The thing we will learn, we have to learn, is that bikeshed, the noun, nothing has to do with bikeshedding, the verb. Groeten Geert Stappers -- Leven en laten leven
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