Thanks for the link. It wasn't clear to me, however, who was doing the bikeshedding. If you read the original source for the term at http://bikeshed.com/ http:

Thanks for the link. It wasn't clear to me, however, who was doing the bikeshedding. If you read the original source for the term at http://bikeshed.com/ http://bikeshed.com/, Kamp shows his respect for the submitter of the change: I bow my head in respect to the original proposer because he stuck to his guns through this carpet blanking from the peanut gallery, and the change is in our tree today. I would have turned my back and walked away after less than a handful of messages in that thread. This is how I feel about the pull request: a seemingly innocuous change that looks, to this outsider anyway, well worth making. It seemed to have been declined over a concern that people would come to expect Rails to formalize undocumented behavior that others had relied on. I've been consuming Rails docs for years (thank you to the contributors), and that doesn't seem that crazy to me. (Edit: formatting.)