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Firefighting :
1. What sysadmins have to do to correct sudden operational
problems. An opposite of hacking. "Been hacking your new
newsreader?" "No, a power glitch hosed the network and I
spent the whole afternoon fighting fires."
2. The act of throwing lots of manpower and late nights at a
project, especially to get it out before deadline. See also
gang bang, Mongolian Hordes technique; however, the term
"firefighting" connotes that the effort is going into chasing
bugs rather than adding features.
(1994-12-01)
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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Firefighting : n. 1. What sysadmins have to do to correct sudden
operational problems. An opposite of hacking. "Been hacking your new
newsreader?" "No, a power glitch hosed the network and I spent the whole
afternoon fighting fires." 2. The act of throwing lots of manpower and
late nights at a project, esp. to get it out before deadline. See also
gang bang, Mongolian Hordes technique; however, the term
`firefighting' connotes that the effort is going into chasing bugs
rather than adding features.
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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