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patch pumpkin: n. [Perl hackers] A notional token passed around among the members of a
project. Possession of the patch pumpkin means one has the exclusive
authority to make changes on the project's master source tree. The
implicit assumption is that pumpkin
holder status is temporary and rotates periodically among senior
project members. This term comes from the Perl development community, but has been
sighted elsewhere. It derives from a stuffed-toy pumpkin that was passed
around at a development shop years ago as the access control for a shared
backup-tape drive.
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