From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3690 invoked by alias); 16 Jun 2005 15:07:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 3522 invoked by uid 22791); 16 Jun 2005 15:06:43 -0000 Received: from nile.gnat.com (HELO nile.gnat.com) (205.232.38.5) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 15:06:43 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-nile.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E26C89618; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 11:06:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from nile.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (nile.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 16874-01-5; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 11:06:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (taconic.gnat.com [205.232.38.103]) by nile.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0E059603; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 11:06:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42B19580.3020103@adacore.com> Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 15:07:00 -0000 From: Robert Dewar User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Wakely CC: Scott Robert Ladd , "Aaron W. LaFramboise" , chris jefferson , gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Fixing Bugs (Was: A Suggestion for Release Testing) References: <42AEE65D.7090707@coyotegulch.com> <42AEF6CD.6060703@adacore.com> <42AEFD9D.8030401@coyotegulch.com> <42AEFF40.1060704@codesourcery.com> <42AF0C13.5040009@coyotegulch.com> <84fc9c00050614100731d97d41@mail.gmail.com> <42AF1771.5060709@coyotegulch.com> <42AF2173.4000109@cs.york.ac.uk> <42B068E0.1000401@aaronwl.com> <42B18CEB.30302@coyotegulch.com> <20050616145729.GA11184@compsoc.man.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20050616145729.GA11184@compsoc.man.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2005-06/txt/msg00651.txt.bz2 On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 10:30:03AM -0400, Scott Robert Ladd wrote: > Aaron W. LaFramboise wrote: >> > Boosters, FreeBSD hackers, and I'm sure tons of others are calling this >> > the "Bicycle shed effect." >> > >> > > > If I'm building a bicycle shed, I may want to talk with others who have > done so in the past, learning from the experience and gaining their > insights. Why did they use a certain type of construction? What sort of > storage did they build in? What worked and didn't work for someone else > who has already built a shed? What did they learn from their own work? > Any shed I build will be better for such discussions. chuckle chuckle ... The reference is of course to Parkinson's second law, that the discussion time on an issue is in inverse proportion to its importance. I think that in fact Scott has unwittingly provided a perfect reference for this thread :-)