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語源

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.^[1]

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈpʌm(p)kɪŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpʌm(p)ˌkɪŋ/
• ハイフネーション: pump‧king

名詞

pumpking (複数形 pumpkings)

1. (programming, slang) A Perl user working on shared source code who has been temporarily designated as the only person who is allowed to make changes. [from late 20th c.]
   • 1999 winter, Nathan Torkington, “Hacking the Perl Core”, in The Perl Journal‎^[2], volume 4, number 4 (number 16 overall), Boston, Mass.: Readable Publications, ISSN 1087-903X, OCLC 34459782, archived from the original on 31 October 2020:

     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.

   • 2000, Simon Cozens; with Peter Wainwright, Beginning Perl, Birmingham, West Midlands: Wrox Press, →ISBN, page 24:

     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.

   • 2002, Clinton Pierce, “Basic Perl”, in Charlotte Clapp, editor, Perl Developer’s Dictionary, Indianapolis, Ind.: Sams Publishing, →ISBN, page 6:

     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.

   • 2005, Scott Walters, Perl 6 Now: The Core Ideas Illustrated with Perl 5 (Expert’s Voice in Open Source), Berkeley, Calif.: Apress, →ISBN, page xxii:

     Thanks to Doug Miles, the Phoenix Perl Mongers Pumpking, for his tireless dedication to the Phoenix Perl community, which he brought together. Writing Perl in the valley would be a lot lonelier without his hard work.

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