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Why Should I Care What Color the Bikeshed Is? (1999)
From freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#bikeshed-painting. See phk.freebsd.dk/sagas/bikeshed for historical background; see also Poul-Henning Kamp's regular column The Bikeshed at the ACM.
The somewhat longer answer is that just because you are capable of building a bikeshed does not mean you should stop others from building one just because you do not like the color they plan to paint it. This is a metaphor indicating that you need not argue about every little feature just because you know enough to do so. Some people have commented that the amount of noise generated by a change is inversely proportional to the complexity of the change."
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