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P0
Priority zero — fix or ship this before everything else in the queueThe ordered list of what ships next..
Why this word exists
When something must jump the line, shop says P0 — priority zero — fix or ship before everything else in the queueThe ordered list of what ships next..
Honesty hard-fails and broken deploys often earn P0. It is urgency slang, not a product SKU.
Where you will meet it
Chat, STATUS, and tipThe tip is the newest saved snapshot on a branch, the one a reviewer can check out.-train lists mark P0 beside the blocking sliceOne thin piece of a bigger job, shipped or reviewed on its own so the whole thing does not wait.. Bumps without P0 are softer reorders.
Examples
- A Live AIFree-form workshop chat on the site that stays off until Rich turns it on with spend caps. copy that falsely says on is a P0 honesty fix.
- P0 hard-failA Keep QA result that blocks shipping until fixed. blocks the tip trainA line of finished changes waiting to be tipped (reviewed and shipped) one after another. until Keep clears it.
- Cosmetic chipA small pill or tag that labels a category, score, or filter — often in a chip bar at the top of a card. polish is rarely P0 while a deployA deploy puts a built site on the server people open in a browser. is broken.
Fetched 2026-09-23 CT.