Bike shedding is a phenomenon where a discussion turns toward something relatively trivial that anyone can understand and therefore comment on; this often degenerates into a huge amount of useless discussion.
Inverse bike shedding is a phenomenon that occurs when an actual job arises that just about anyone can do (like maintaining a wiki) but no one is interested in; this typically results in sudden silence from all those who were previously engaging in a lot of useless discussion. It's amazing how many people out there demand that they have a say but who would never actually lift a finger to help. It's even more amazing that, in fact, all the discussion actually takes more effort than some of these tasks (like maintaining a wiki). This week and next, I'm working on the Verilog implementation of a GPU shader engine. I'm not releasing a single line of code until we have a permanent wiki maintainer. -- Timothy Normand Miller, PhD Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Binghamton University http://www.cs.binghamton.edu/~millerti/<http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti> Open Graphics Project
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