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# FOSS Community Acronyms



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List of abbreviations used within the FOSS community, and their definitions and usages. This list inludes more common english acronyms popular on internet.



Maintained by folks at [D-EDGE](https://www.d-edge.com/).



## Contributing



If you have a GitHub account, you can submit a pull request to any json in the data folder.



## Tip



Write out the full name when you want to introduce a term (with the acronym in brackets). Use only the acronym after this.

Example:



> Companies don’t usually talk about FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out). Instead, they use phrases such as “shiny object syndrome” and “market expectations.” Google is a great example of how FOMO can creep in. 



[FOMO Is Disastrous for Company Strategies](https://rubenugarte.com/fomo-is-disastrous-for-company-strategies/) by [Ruben Ugarte](https://rubenugarte.com/)



If you are only going to use the acronym once, maybe don't use it at all and rely on the whole expression instead. 



## Acronyms



AbbreviationDefinitionUsageExampleACKACKnowledgementAgreed/accepted change. A loose ACK can be confusing. It's best to avoid them unless it's a documentation/comment only change in which case there is nothing to test/verify; therefore the tested/untested distinction is not thereHumanizer, Bitcoin

AFAICTAs Far As I Can Tellaiohttp

AFAIKAs Far As I KnowAFAIK, he will be away for three months.Diffract

AOAAnalysis of Alternatives/r/programming

ASAPAs Soon As PossibleIt is an informal way to say that who wrote it is busy at the moment and will reply as soon as he can.Britannica

BBLBrown Bag LunchIt is an informal training meeting usually performed during lunch. It is a nice way to share knowledge, train on technical, business or any kind of skills. The speaker does not have to be an expert of the topic.brownbaglunch on Github (French)

CCWComment and Criticism Welcome

CLAContributor License AgreementPlay Framework, Microsoft

CLICommand Line InterfaceI prefer using the CLI because it is faster.Wikipedia page for CLI

CMVChange My View

CoCCode of ConductOur Code of Conduct

Concept ACKConcept ACKnowledgementAgree with the idea and overall direction, but haven't reviewed the code changes or tested themBitcoin

DevOpsDevlopment Operations

DI/DIPDependency Inversion PrincipleThe higher-level orchestrating components should not have to know the details of their dependenciesHacker Laws

DoDDefinition of DoneWhen all conditions, or acceptance criteria, that a software product must satisfy are met and ready to be accepted by a user, customer, team, or consuming system.DEFINITION OF DONE

DRYDon't Repeat YourselfThis is used in couple with modular programming, and emphasize on code reusabilityWikipedia

DTOData Transfer ObjectDTO Wikipedia

DXDeveloper ExperienceGuidelines to make onboarding and development of a project easy to get into and maintainNear (Github)

EBKACError Between Keyboard And ChairIt's an error made by the human user of a complex system, usually a computer system, in interacting with it.User error

ETAEstimated Time of ArrivalTo ask when something will be ready/r/fsharp

FOMOFear Of Missing OutThe feeling of apprehension that one is either not in the know or missing out on information, events, experiences, or life decisions that could make one's life betterHacker News

FOSS/FLOSSFree & Open Source SoftwareThat is both free software and open-source software where anyone is freely licensed to use, copy, study, and change the software in any way, and the source code is openly shared so that people are encouraged to voluntarily improve the design of the softwareFOSS/FLOSS

FOUCFlash Of Unstyled ContentWhen a web page appears briefly with the browser's default styles prior to loading an external CSS stylesheetmd-block, Wikipedia

FPFunctional Programming

FYAFor Your ActionWhen you ask someone to do something usually on an email or correspondence

FYIFor Your InformationArduPilot, F#'s slack

GUIGraphical User InterfaceThe GUI makes it very simple for beginners to useWikipedia page for GUI

IANALI Am Not A LawyerUsed often before talking about licensing issuesHackerNews, CUPS

ICYMIIn Case You Missed It

IIRCIf I Recall Correctly

IMOIn My Opinion

ITTIn This Thread

KISSKeep It Simple, StupidKISS is a design principle stating that most systems work fine if it is built/kept simple than making the system complex.Wikipedia

LGTMLooks Good To MeSee ACKCardidy, Simple Icons, proposal-array-grouping, /r/webdev

LOC/SLOC(Source) Lines Of CodeAbove each file on GitHub you can find something like `50 lines (43 sloc)`. The difference is the empty lines.GitHub

MCVEMinimal Complete Valid/Verfiable ExampleWhen asking a question, people will be better able to provide help if you provide code that they can easily understand and use to reproduce the problem. Such a question will be to the point, include just the information that what is necessary, be valid, and be accompanied by a clear example of your problem which leaves no room for guesswork. This is referred to by community members as MCVEStack Exchange

MPAMulti-Page Application/r/web_design

MRMerge RequestSee PR

MREMinimal Reproducible ExampleIn computing, a minimal reproducible example (abbreviated MRE) is a collection of source code and other data files which allow a bug or problem to be demonstrated and reproduced.Stack Overflow

MVCModel View ControllerA commonly used software design architecture based around the Model (data), the View (user interface), and the Controller (logic to handle requests).Medium

MVPMinimum Viable ProductA prototype version of a product with the minimum required feature setWikipedia

MVVMModel View ViewModelA front-end software design architecture based around the Model (data), the View (user interface), and the ViewModel (logic that handles view data and interactions).Knockout MVVM Explanation

NACK/NAKNegative ACKnowledgementDisagree with the code changes/concept. Should be accompanied by an explanationBitcoin

NIHNot Invented HereNIH Syndrome is a decision-making error where we tend to value our own ideas above those conceived by people outside of our grouplearnosity

NPNo ProblemNo stress, it is fine

OOPObject Oriented Programming

OPOriginal Post/Original PosterOriginal Poster (who started a thread) or Original Post (the message that started it)/r/ProgrammerHumor, StackExchange

PEBCAKProblem Exists Between Chair And KeyboardIt is a user error, not a problem / bug in the programHumanizer, Community

PEBKACProblem Exists Between Keyboard And ChairIt is a user error, not a problem / bug in the programHumanizer, Community

PEBMACProblem Exists Between Monitor And ChairIt's an error made by the human user of a complex system, usually a computer system, in interacting with it.User error

PEBUAKProblem Exists Between User and KeyboardIt's an error made by the human user of a complex system, usually a computer system, in interacting with it.User error

PICNICProblem In Chair Not In ComputerIt's an error made by the human user of a complex system, usually a computer system, in interacting with it.User error

POBCAKa US government/military acronym for Problem Occurs Between Chair And KeyboardIt's an error made by the human user of a complex system, usually a computer system, in interacting with it.User error, List of U.S. government and military acronyms

PRPull RequestTell others about changes you've pushed to a branch in a repository/r/vuejs

RACIResponsible, Accountable, Consulted, and InformedA responsibility assignment matrix, also known as RACI matrix or linear responsibility chart, describes the participation by various roles in completing tasks or deliverables for a project or business process.IBM

RCERemote Code ExecutionRemote code execution is a cyber-attack whereby an attacker can remotely execute commands on someone else’s computing device. Remote code executions (RCEs) usually occur due to malicious malware downloaded by the host and can happen regardless of the device’s geographic location. Remote Code Execution (RCE) is also referred to as Remote Code Evaluation.RCE

ReprEx Reproducible ExampleA reprex facilitates easier conversations about your code by presenting it in a concise and repeatable way. A simple copy-paste should be all that’s needed to run the reprex, and running it shouldn’t generate errors except for those that the reprex is intended to exemplifyTidyverse, University of Virginia Library

RFCRequest For Comments

RFIRequest for InformationAn RFI (request for information) is a formal process for gathering information from potential suppliers of a good or service. RFIs are intended to be written by customers and sent to potential suppliers. An RFI is typically the first and most broad series of requests intended to narrow down a list of potential vendor candidates.RFI

RFPRequest for ProposalA request for proposal (RFP) is a document that an organization, often a government agency or large enterprise, posts to elicit a response -- a formal bid -- from potential vendors for a desired IT solution. The RFP specifies what the customer is looking for and describes each evaluation criterion on which a vendor's proposal will be assessed.RFP

RTFMRead The F*****g ManualOriginally a way for the _gurus_ to get rid of trivial questions from newbies, now a humble way to state that a mistake or a waste of time can be avoided by reading the freaking manual first (assuming it exists).XKCD comic, Github commits

SCMSource Code ManagementSee VCS

SESoftware Engineer or System Engineer

SOLIDSingle responsibility, Open-closed, Liskov substitution, Interface segregation and Dependency inversion5 (of many) software design principles, promoted by Robert "Uncle Bob" MartinWikipedia

SPASingle-Page Application/r/web_design

SRESite Reliability EngineerHow They SRE

SRPSingle-Responsibility PrincipleThe single-responsibility principle is a computer-programming principle that states that every module, class or function in a computer program should have responsibility over a single part of that program's functionality, and it should encapsulate that part. wikipedia/r/csharp/

SSOCSocial Summer of CodeSocial foundation offers this two-month long summer program for students to learn about the open-source culture and get involved in the community. Participants contribute to real-life projects under the guidance of experienced mentors.Social Summer of Code

SWESoftWare Engineer

TBDTo Be Defined/DoneSoftware Craft Website

tested ACKTested ACKnowledgmentReviewed the code changes and have verified the functionality or bug fixBitcoin

TILToday I LearnedTIL that TIL is Today I Learned/r/ProgrammerTIL/

TYSMThank You So MuchCyber Definitions

utACKUnTested ACKnowledgmentReviewed and agree with the code changes but haven't actually tested themBitcoin

VCSVersion Control SoftwareA way to keep a track of the changes in the code so that if something goes wrong, we can make comparisons in different code versions and revert to any previous version that we want. Git, SVN or Mercurial are VCS/r/ProgrammerHumor, softwaretestinghelp.com

WDYTWhat Do You ThinkBitrise Workflow Editor

WIPWork In ProgressDo not merge yetGitLab's blog

WRTWith Respect toIn reference to a particular thing or situationTailwind Blog, Hacker News

WYSIWYGWhat You See Is What You GetIt is a system in which editing software allows content to be edited in a form that resembles its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product. It is typically used an arbitrary markup language to define the codes/tagsWYSIWYG

XPExtreme ProgrammingWikipedia

YAGNIYou Ain't Gonna Need ItTech Excellence

YMMVYour Mileage May VaryWhisper



## Common chat acronyms



AbbreviationDefinitionAFKAway From Keyboard

BRBBe Right Back

CMIIWCorrect me if i'm wrong

IKRI know, right

ILYI love you

IRLIn Real Life

IYKYKIf You Know You Know

LFGlet's freaking go

LMFAOLaughing my freaking *a* off

LMKLet me know

LOLLaugh out loud

LTRLeft To Right

NVMNever mind

OFCOf course

ROFLRolling on floor laughing

RTLRight To Left

SMHShaking my head

STFUShut the *freak* up

TTYLTalk to you later

TYVMThank you very much

YOLOYou only live once



## Communities, Companies, Organizations



AbbreviationMeaningURLWhat they doAWSAmazon web Serviceshttps://aws.amazon.com/Amazon Web Services offers reliable, scalable, and inexpensive cloud computing services.

FSFFree Software Foundationhttps://www.fsf.orgOversee a number of open source organizations

GHGitHubhttps://github.comSource code host, owned by Microsoft

GNUCollection of free software, a licensehttps://gnu.orgprogram of FSF, develops many linux tools and a commonly used license

MSMicrosofthttps://microsoft.comMakers of windows, azure, vscode, and other tools that might be relevent to developers

OSIOpen Source Initiativehttps://opensource.orgDefining 'Open Source'

SOStackOverflowhttps://stackoverflow.comPopular question and answer website



## Stacks



AbbreviationDefinitionExampleEFKElasticsearch, Fluentd, and KibanaHow To Set Up an Elasticsearch, Fluentd and Kibana (EFK) Logging Stack on Kubernetes

ELKElasticsearch, Logstash, and KibanaWhat is the ELK Stack?

LAMPLinux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (Perl or Python)IBM Cloud, Wikipedia

LEMPLinux, Nginx Server, MySQL,  PHP (Perl or Python)

MEANMongoDB, Express.js, Angular.js, Node.js

MERNMongoDB, Express.js, React.js, Node.js

SAFESuave (or Saturn), Azure, Fable, Elmish/r/fsharp



## Related document



- [The Jargon File](http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/index.html)

- [Bitcoin's CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#peer-review)

- [Bitcoin hacker lingo (stolen from TCP)](https://nitter.vxempire.xyz/jgarzik/status/601815506291531776)

- [What do cryptic Github comments mean?](https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-do-cryptic-github-comments-mean-9c1912bcc0a4/)



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