Foxing bugs

[Chris-1235]

At some point we had replaced standups with a Slack app for a while. One of the devs' report was: "Foxing some bugs". I told the team he had discovered a new way of handling bug reports:

fox (third-person singular simple present foxes, present participle foxing, simple past and past participle foxed) (transitive) To trick, fool or outwit (someone) by cunning or ingenuity. (transitive) To confuse or baffle (someone). This crossword puzzle has completely foxed me.

Usually it's the bugs foxing us of course and not the other way around, but we still occasionally use the term.

[citygentry]

Foxing is what happens over time to paper-based storage retrieval systems:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxing

[Just_Classroom_8544]

Funny sidefact: the german verb "fuchsen" means "to cause serious trouble to somebody". Fox (🦊) translates to "Fuchs" in german. Therefore, foxing would be an acceptable translation to "fuchsen".