Parkinson shows how you can go into the board of directors and get approval for building a multi-million or even billion dollar atomic power plant, but if you want to build a bike shed you will be tangled up in endless discussions.
While it seems that there are a large number of people with an opinion on date formats and mime types, there are an even larger number of people with an opinion on how to name a project. Or on the process by which names are picked.