This document explains a few Cygwin-specific acronyms you may see on the Cygwin mailing-lists.

Note that this is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of all possible acronyms. If you can't find the acronym you're looking for here, try another acronym resource, like The Canonical Acronym List or AcronymFinder.com.

Cygwin Acronyms

BLODA	Big List Of Dodgy Apps. A list of applications that interfere with the normal working of Cygwin by intrusively injecting themselves in the system call chain. First used on the list by Dave Korn.
BWAM	Because We Are Mean. A variation of WJM used in answering the "Why isn't something working the way I think it should be?" type of question. Follows the MSFTEU Cygwin philosophy. First used on the list by Sam Edge
GTG	Good To Go. Used mostly on the cygwin-apps mailing list to indicate that a package is ready to be included in the Cygwin distribution. Coined by Daniel Reed
ITA	Inten[d|t] To Adopt. Used on the cygwin-apps mailing list to indicate the intent to adopt an orphaned package already in the Cygwin distribution. Usually followed by the package name. Adopting a package gets an automatic gold star. See also ITP
ITP	Inten[d|t] To Package. Used on the cygwin-apps mailing list to indicate the intent to provide a new package. Usually followed by the package name. See also ITA
IWFM	It Works For Me. Also WFM (or WJFFM for extra emphasis).
MSFTEU	Maximum Surprise For The End User. Coined by Christopher Faylor. Very appropriate, as Cygwin runs on Microsoft Windows™. See also BWAM and WJM
PGA	Patches Gratefully Accepted. See also PTC. See also SHTDI.
PTC	Patches Thoughtfully Considered. See also PGA. See also SHTDI
SHTDI	Somebody Has To Do It. Introduced by Christopher Faylor. See also PTC
STC	Simple Test Case. First used on the list by Ronald Landheer-Cieslak.
TOFU	Text Over, Full-quote Under (or, in the original German, "Text Oben, Fullquote Unten"). A combination of top posting and full quoting, which makes the messages hard to read (according to RFC 1855). Often combined with raw e-mail addresses in quoted messages.
WFM	Works For Me. Also IWFM (or WJFFM, for extra emphasis)
WJFFM	Works Just Fine For Me. As in "Nope, can't reproduce this here". Yet another way of saying "We're Just Frighteningly Freaking Mean" (or insert your favorite F-words here). First used on the list by Christopher Faylor. Also IWFM and WFM
WJM	We're Just Mean. See also BWAM
3PP	3rd Party Perverts. People making others' lives difficult by using Cygwin in weird ways and having their products depend on that. Acronym coined by Christopher Faylor, after a phrase in Brian Dessent's message