Bikeshedding

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when you're up to your neck in alligators, it's hard to remember that your initial objective was to drain the swamp yak shaving

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energy futile investment procrastination time when you're up to your neck in alligators it's hard to remember that your initial objective was to drain swamp yak shaving

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Exactly. Bikeshedding the millions of possible reasons the queue/ratelimit was triggered is silly.

Source: wiktionary

Modulo giving developers and the user community a few weeks to comment on the matter and make any last convincing cases for keeping it, I agree. That's not to say that I want to see two weeks worth of i386 bike-shedding and highly emotional arguments for keeping it purely on general principle, I'm saying that we need to let a couple of weeks go by so that along with the emotional bike sheds, anyone with a *technical* argument for retaining support has a chance to be heard.

Source: wiktionary

Hmm. Sounds like my RFC is taken to be a RFB (Request For Bikeshedding).

Source: wiktionary

So.. What do people think? Let the bikeshedding begin...

Source: wiktionary

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