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patch pumpkin
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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n. [Perl hackers] A notional token passed around among the members of a
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project. Possession of the patch pumpkin means one has the exclusive
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authority to make changes on the project's master source tree. The implicit
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assumption is that pumpkin holder status is temporary and rotates
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periodically among senior project members. This term comes from the Perl
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development community, but has been sighted elsewhere. It derives from a
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stuffed-toy pumpkin that was passed around at a development shop years ago
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as the access control for a shared backup-tape drive.
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