There's not much software jargon that I am unfamiliar with. Well, today in one of our discussions, I heard someone say "Can we test this quickly so we can forestall any brown-paper-bag bugs?" It had me wondering what that meant and as usual Google came to my rescue. And here it is for you:
"A bug in a public software release that is so embarrassing that the author notionally wears a brown paper bag over his head for a while so he won't be recognized on the net. Entered popular usage after the early-1999 release of the first Linux 2.2, which had one. The phrase was used in Linus Torvalds's apology posting."
Friday, February 16, 2007
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