Appendix C. Why Should I Care What Color the Bikeshed Is?

You shouldn't; it doesn't really matter, and you have better things to spend your time on.

Poul-Henning Kamp's famous "bikeshed" post (an excerpt from which appears in Chapter 6) is an eloquent disquisition on what tends to go wrong in group discussions. It is reprinted here with his permission. The orginal URL is http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=506636+517178+/usr/local/www/db/text/1999/freebsd-hackers/19991003.freebsd-hackers.