pumpking
noun/ˈpʌm(p)kɪŋ/UK/ˈpʌm(p)ˌkɪŋ/US
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 particular time.
- inherited from kyngen
- inherited from *kuningaz✻
- inherited from *kuning✻
- inherited from cyng
- inherited from king
Definitions
A Perl user working on shared source code who has been temporarily designated as the only…
A Perl user working on shared source code who has been temporarily designated as the only person who is allowed to make changes.
- In addition, various people are pumpkings for different areas. For example, Andy Dougherty and Jarkko Hietaniemi share the Configure pumpkin, and Tom Christiansen is the documentation pumpking.
- Releases are coordinated by a ‘patch pumpkin holder’, or ‘pumpking’ – a quality controller who, with help from Larry [Wall], decides which contributions make the grade and when and bears the heavy responsibility of releasing a new Perl.
- Each release of Perl is assigned a "pumpking." This person controls all changes to the actual source code of the language itself. The pumpking for 5.6 was Gurusamy Sarathy, and the pumpking for 5.8 is Jarkko Hietaniemi.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for pumpking. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA