Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (382 mails)

[Guido Berhoerster <gber@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10.05.2012 20:49, Robert Schweikert wrote:
> > and if those people in the openSUSE
> > community are just clueless noobs and death-by-bikeshedding
> > trolls, right? (Yes, I'm being ironic.)
>
> Unfortunately we have plenty of bikeshedding even on technical issues,
> see the systemd discussion from last year, and I think we just have to
> be more aggressive in trying to suppress it.
>
> Going back to the original message that spawned this thread I stick with
> what I said originally, most of it is a theoretical argument, it is an
> invitation to bikeshedding, and the message itself should probably not
> have been posted, at least not in the way it was presented.

IMO there is a tendency in such discusssions to dismiss any dissenting 
view out of hand as "bikeshedding" even if it is built on substantiated 
arguments just because there is also one or two trolls participating in 
a thread.
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