I am Damian Yerrick, webmaster of Pin Eight. I also have a microblog on Twitter (@PinoBatch).
This repository acts as, among other things, an issue tracker for Pin Eight projects that do not have their own public Git repository.
Pitfall! [ˈpʰɪʔˌfɔːɫ] is a chart-topping platformer published by Activision for the Atari 2600 Video Computer System. This was back when Activision and Electronic Arts were still indie studios. (Yes, there was such a time before they became behemoths.) It received several sequels, including Pitfall 2: Lost Caverns on the 2600, which was remade as Super Pitfall on the Nintendo Entertainment System; Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure on Super NES and Sega Genesis; and a Temple Run clone for Apple iOS and Android. Super Pitfall was poorly received, to put it nicely.
"Pitfall" or "Pitfall seed" is also the name of an uncommon item in Nintendo's social simulator Animal Crossing for GameCube. Above ground, a pitfall appears as a white sphere with a red exclamation point, much like the issue icon in GitHub looked prior to 2021-05-13 when the issue icons were "refreshed". But when buried, it appears as a crack in the ground, the same as a buried fossil or Gyroid. If a villager steps on the crack, the villager will fall into a trap and have to mash buttons to climb out. Because Animal Crossing also included several playable NES games that the player could unlock, as well as an unused "dummy" triangle, there was initially a lot of confusion as to what a "pitfall" was. Many thought it was an NES game like Super Pitfall.
The pitfall item reappeared in Nintendo's platform fighting game Super Smash Bros. Brawl for the Wii console, with a similar effect. Though Nintendo's Super Smash Bros. For, the sequel to Brawl on Wii U and Nintendo 3DS, includes several third-party characters as DLC, it never got the Pitfall Harry character from Pitfall!.
Here, a "pitfall" may refer to a bug in the documentation.
Unova, pronounced [ˈjuːnəvə], is the region in which Nintendo's cockfighting role-playing games Pokémon Black Version and Pokémon White Version for Nintendo DS (B&W for short) take place. Its geography roughly corresponds to the area around New York, New York. In the Japanese versions of B&W, Unova is called Isshu (イッシュ), pronounced roughly like "issue".
In this repository, the term "unova" may mean something like a feature request, after Latin nova meaning "new". We'll see later what it ends up meaning.
I may state in a commit message that I have given some document a "but reduction". This refers to the advice in "Five Phrases That Make People Discount What You're Saying" by Gwen Moran to reduce the use of the conjunction "but" in one's writing.