[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 104858] "Running 1 DumpRenderTree over X shards" is not a helpful output

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104858





--- Comment #9 from Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa at webkit.org>  2012-12-13 10:44:13 PST ---
(In reply to comment #8)
> (In reply to comment #6)
> > I agree that sometimes jargon can be good for its precision, but you have to consider the possibility that a particular term may confuse more than it enlightens.
> 
> Of course. That's why I said I wasn't necessarily making that argument.
> 
> > At least four WebKit contributors said on IRC that they actually found this confusing and misinterpreted the message. 
>
> At least as many people on IRC said that they thought this was a correct and accurate term. And it may be that now that the others have had this explained, they are enlightened. I'm pretty sure that's how learning new vocabulary works.

As far as I could recall, everyone who said they know what sharding mean in this context were all Google employees.

> (In reply to comment #7)
> Finally, I will note that the code refers to "shards" in multiple places. Any change should update the code as well as the text string in the message.
> 
> I suggest that we either leave the wording alone, or make the sharding a debug message so that devs don't normally see it. I'm fine with either option.

Making it a debug message will be fine with me so that ordinary users don't have to get confused by this message.

> Learning a new use of a word is not a bad thing.

As a user of this development tool, I don't want to learn or need to know anything new unless it's absolutely necessary to use the tool. The number of technical jargons we have, even in just NRWT, is absolutely insane. This whole elitism and egoism towards knowledge in our industry always drives me nuts. Times like this, I really consider stop being a software engineer and go do something else. And this is why I don't think software engineers should ever design UIs or write documentations.

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