May 15, 2003

brain dump

n.

[common] The act of telling someone everything one knows about a particular topic or project. Typically used when someone is going to let a new party maintain a piece of code. Conceptually analogous to an operating system core dump in that it saves a lot of useful state before an exit. You'll have to give me a brain dump on FOOBAR before you start your new job at HackerCorp. See core dump (sense 4). At Sun, this is also known as TOI (transfer of information).

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:56 AM

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