Bdev

Bdev or Bdv
abreviation of “Bon Dieu voit” an haitian saying meaning “God sees” but used like it was “I swear “ or “for real”.

-“Yo, this class is killing me”
-“Bdev”

-“Bdev she looks crazy with her hair like that”

by dontmindmelmaoyeet February 13, 2019

BDFL

Benevolent Dictator for Life.

The informal, slightly tongue-in-cheek title given to a respected individual in the open source development community who sets general directions and makes final calls in certain situations within the scope of a given project. The BDFL is a tacit acknowledgement that communal, consensus-based decision making within the open source community occasionally runs up against obstacles, in which case a single authoritative voice can be useful. That BDFLs survive and flourish in these otherwise anarchistic contexts is attributed to their personal charisma and their reluctance to wield their power except in rare moments.

Of course, a project coordinator cannot really be anything like a dictator in the sense that he or she ultimately cannot enforce a decision, since a project fork is always possible.

Not all, or even most, open source projects have a BDFL.

Note the difference from the historical meaning of benevolent dictator, which is used in a political context.

List of Benevolent Dictators for Life

Blender
Ton Roosendaal

Drupal content management framework
Dries Buytaert

Linux kernel
Linus Torvalds, explicitly recognising the "benevolent dictator" epithet, e.g. in the interview published August 18, 2004 in Business Week

OpenBSD operating system
Theo de Raadt

Perl programming language
Larry Wall

PHP programming language
Rasmus Lerdorf

Python programming language
Guido van Rossum, known for his conservatism in changing Python. Very little changes between Python versions, and what does change tends to be considered and discussed for months or years in advance.

ReiserFS
Hans Reiser

Samba software
Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell

TTDPatch
Josef Drexler

Wikipedia
Jimbo Wales, who however is not convinced he can be qualified as a "benevolent dictator" since wikis require less centralized management than typical software projects.

WINE, the Open source implementation of the Windows API
Alexandre Julliard

Slackware, the most Unix-like Linux distribution, known for stability and speed.
Pat Volkerding

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Our BDFL is so awesome. He is so relaxed and even asks for our input. He is the r0x0r!

by Diane aka the BITCH July 15, 2005

BDU

Military acronym for Battle Dress Uniform. Also called fatigues.

Wearing BDUs allows soldiers to blend into the tropical jungle (but prove useless in the urban jungle).

by Cassandra September 16, 2004

BDSM

An overlapping abbrevation of Bondage and Discipline (BD), Dominance and Submission (DS), Sadism and Masochism (SM).

Are you actually into doing BDSM or do you just carry that leather whip for show?

by Tanos May 14, 2003

bdussy

The combined scent of butt, dick, and pussy.

The smell of bdussy gave it away, someone had been fucking in my bed.

by Zigggy October 1, 2006

bdaan

Describes the fat lard condition of a lazy gamer. mostly used in the game of counter-strike

god, you need to go out and get some execise you bdaan. Eat another hotdog bdaan.

by crispy12 December 19, 2005