A bike shed (any colour will do) on greener grass

Kamp, P. (1999). A bike shed (any colour will do) on greener grass. freebsd-hackers mailing list.

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Letter

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Primary research

Year

1999

Link

http://phk.freebsd.dk/sagas/bikeshed/

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1 citation across 1 artifact.

Domain-specific

• Parkinson's Law of Triviality (Bikeshedding)
  • The term "bikeshedding" was introduced into software-engineering culture by Poul-Henning Kamp's 1999 email to the FreeBSD mailing list

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    “Initially the only effect was to introduce the “bikeshed” as a term of art for a yellow card in the FreeBSD vocabulary, and from there it slowly migrated elsewhere, probably carried along by FreeBSD committers.”

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