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.
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