33: Which Color Should We Paint This Episode?
Episode description
In this episode, we discuss "bikeshedding" (also known as the Law of Triviality), the famous proposition that complex contributions and ideas (such as plans to build a nuclear power plant), often of high impact and importance, move forward with relatively little interference, whereas simple contributions and conversations (such as which color to paint a bikeshed) get caught up in committee and high-volume debate, and how this tends to impact FOSS communities. We do a (slightly dramatic) reading of the original email, hold a conversation about it, and then come back to the topic with a twist right after everyone (including ourselves) thought the episode was over.
Links:
The original bikeshed email hosted at shed.bike
But wait! Use bikeshed.org instead!
Wait! You should link to the white background page! No, the green one! No, blue! No, purple!
But wait! Brett Glass (and others) respond!
yourlogicalfallacyis.com, but be sure to read about The Fallacy Fallacy before you start linking to these to try to win an argument on the internet