pumpking
English
Etymology
Blend of pumpkin + king, anecdotally from the use of a stuffed pumpkin toy that was handed between employees as a token of permission to make changes, ensuring that only one person could make changes at any one time. See .
Noun
pumpking (plural pumpkings)
- (computing, slang, Perl) A user working on shared source code who has been temporarily designated as the only person who is allowed to make changes.
- 2002, Jon Orwant, Computer Science & Perl Programming: Best of The Perl Journal
- In addition, various people are pumpkings for different areas, such as maintaining Perl's Configure process […]
- 2002, Clinton Pierce, Perl Developer's Dictionary (page 6)
- The pumpking for 5.6 was Gurusamy Sarathy, and the pumpking for 5.8 is Jarkko Hietaniemi. The rest of the list contributes suggestions, discussions, and occasionally patches to the Perl source code to change and improve the language.
- 2002, Jon Orwant, Computer Science & Perl Programming: Best of The Perl Journal
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