LMJargon

  1. An exclamation made by QA types when they're done with a release, whether it's actually ready for customers or not.

  1. acronym n. Quality Assurance; group in R&D responsible for ensuring software fitness. See ship it. Briefly renamed to QTE (for Quality Testing and Evaluation) when a particular mangler became frustrated at the lack of ability to assure anything. Renamed back to QA when he committed suicide.

  1. n. Eventual home of bugs originally reported by QA and marked works as designed by software engines.

  2. A bug that probably won't get mentioned in product reviews. See desired feature.

  1. n. The next release.

  2. Said of a feature or bug fix when there is insufficient time to correct for the current release. See known bug and desired feature.

  1. n. A new software feature that will often improve the software's usability but seldom if ever gets in. Sometimes a desired feature is simply to fix something broken, other times it is a radical change in the way of doing things. See big N, requested enhancement.

  1. spoonerism v. Debugging.

  1. acronym n. Direct Display Printer Interface. The TSR of love which interfaces between PC applications and the microcode on LX controllers. Also DDPI when slash `/' is unavailable, as in a MS-DOS file name.

  1. n. Jumping on DaveM at the top of the stairs and subsequently tumbling down the stairs together. (Not actually riding Dave, per se.)

  1. n. Endearing term, originally meaning boss or supervisor but now meaning any close coworker. Usually connotates some sort of help being needed. Daddy, can you come look at my screen?

  1. v. Defunct; no longer employed by LM. Not derogatory unless the person in question was a puffalump or left behind a trail of bad code. Opposite of alive or living.