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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 |