I agree that it resolves to how much it matters, and I guess I disagree with you on how much it matters. How it relates to the bike shedding metaphor is starting to feel like a semantic argument, which is not something I want to continue.
In response to your escalated names like PubesDB... my opinion is that I agree I wouldn't work with them, not because of any internal disgust reaction, but because the name signals a level of maturity that I don't want in my stack. Some people might have the same reaction to Cockroaches.
I didn't feel it was abrasive at all.
For my part, I'm just upset that I went to such great lengths (in the comment I linked) to unpack where the bikeshed metaphor does or doesn't apply, disentangling the various issues and merging them into a general understanding, right where that comment was needed, and yet that's the one that no one is responding to... (what's worse, it was downvoted less than a minute after I posted it ).
>In response to your escalated names like PubesDB... my opinion is that I agree I wouldn't work with them, not because of any internal disgust reaction, but because the name signals a level of maturity that I don't want in my stack. Some people might have the same reaction to Cockroaches.
Right, like I said, "we're haggling over the details"; it should be regarded as a question of which names are so disgusting to be out of the question, yet people are dismissing the entire naming issue as "lol emotional primates".
I would appreciate your thoughts.
With respect to your specific point: if we could resolve how much it matters, then yes, that would obviate the debate. But the bikeshedding metaphor doesn't add much there because it's precisely in dispute about how much it matters.