Why Should I Care What Color the Bikeshed Is?

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1 Jun 2007

Why Should I Care What Color the Bikeshed Is? — "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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