Randy, that was my point exactly :)

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On Wednesday, December 2, 2015 at 8:38:28 PM UTC+1, Stefan Karpinski wrote:
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> Parkinson's law of triviality 
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law_of_triviality>
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> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Randy Zwitch <randy....@fuqua.duke.edu 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
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>> On Wednesday, December 2, 2015 at 3:12:36 AM UTC-5, Tomas Lycken wrote:
>>>
>>> Also, the naming discussion here is not *only* on naming; it's also on 
>>> the possibility of including *more things *in the package. I would be 
>>> all for having a package like Palettes.jl, which would include both 
>>> NoveltyColors.jl and other palettes, but that's not in conflict with the 
>>> current package - it's an extension, that might happen tomorrow, in a year, 
>>> or never at all, depending on whether someone actually finds it useful 
>>> enough to implement it.
>>>
>>
>> People are free to extend my package as much as they like, or create a 
>> wrapper package that aggregates all these different packages. Not sure why 
>> that needs a waiting period for my package. 
>>
>> On Wednesday, December 2, 2015 at 1:22:21 PM UTC-5, cormu...@mac.com 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm using [ColorSchemes.jl](
>>> https://github.com/cormullion/ColorSchemes.jl) for my own purposes, but 
>>> I'm happy to rename it if someone else wants the name.
>>
>>
>> Is this on METADATA? I thought I had checked, but maybe I had missed. If 
>> so, then it makes my package a bit redundant, as I could've submitted a PR 
>> to your package. 
>>
>> On Wednesday, December 2, 2015 at 1:39:09 PM UTC-5, Stefan Karpinski 
>> wrote:
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>>> I'm still pretty unclear on what makes a color scheme a novelty.
>>>
>>>
>> I don't know, it seemed like having a plot based on the colors from the 
>> Grand Budapest Hotel or an outfit Beyonce wore would be a novelty, as 
>> opposed to something like ColorBrewer which explicitly tries to provide 
>> schemes that improve cartography. Since Tim has a majority of the commits 
>> on Color.jl and he thought it was an idea that stood on its own (per my 
>> reading into his approval comment above), I went with it. I really didn't 
>> think it would be this contentious.
>>
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