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Cooking
Work that is actively being built or waiting in the tip trainA line of finished changes waiting to be tipped (reviewed and shipped) one after another. — not liveOn the public website right now so visitors can see it — the opposite of cooking or draft. on the site yet.
Why this word exists
Kitchen talk sticks because half-finished work feels like something on the stove — simmering, tasting, not plated yet. Botski needed a warm word for that middle place so nobody confuses a branchA branch is a named line of snapshots, so a new idea can grow beside the shared line. full of edits with the public site.
Cooking is not a Git command and not a tipThe tip is the newest saved snapshot on a branch, the one a reviewer can check out.. It means the shop is still stirring: drafts, slices, art packs, and notes that have not been reviewed and shipped. When it leaves the kitchen, we say it is liveOn the public website right now so visitors can see it — the opposite of cooking or draft..
Where you will meet it
You will hear cooking in Desk notes, tipThe tip is the newest saved snapshot on a branch, the one a reviewer can check out.-train lists, and chat when someone asks whether a change is on bot.ski yet. If the answer is cooking, visitors still see the older deployA deploy puts a built site on the server people open in a browser..
Cooking sits beside draftWork saved or opened for review that is not the live tip yet (see also draft vs tip). and opposite liveOn the public website right now so visitors can see it — the opposite of cooking or draft.. A tipThe tip is the newest saved snapshot on a branch, the one a reviewer can check out. can finish cooking and still wait in the tip trainA line of finished changes waiting to be tipped (reviewed and shipped) one after another. until a human reviews it.
Examples
- A glossary page sits in a branchA branch is a named line of snapshots, so a new idea can grow beside the shared line.. Rich says it is still cooking — do not refresh expecting it on bot.ski.
- Two art packs are cooking in parallelTwo jobs cooking at the same time instead of waiting in a single line. while Laser tips another PRA pull request is a review page that asks a human to look at a branch before those changes join main.. Neither packA folder of related artwork (icons, heroes, contact sheet) ready for Keep QA and wiring. is liveOn the public website right now so visitors can see it — the opposite of cooking or draft. until Keep and wireHooking finished art or copy into the real site code so visitors can see it. finish.
- Is the DirectoryThe public catalog of guides, tools, stack, games, creators, and articles on Botski. stripA horizontal row of category buttons or icons (like the Directory category strip). cooking? means the UI work is underway, not that the HallThe public Botski listing of real reviewed bot records — empty until real claims exist. invented listings.
Fetched 2026-09-23 CT.