Bugzilla – Bug 5132
Terminology: "Logging" instead of "Debugging"
Last modified: 2008-12-18 11:12:53 UTC
Just a suggestion on the terminology used in the web ui. The term "debugging", IMO, has more nitty-gritty, nuts-and-bolts, beta-testing implications than if you simply referred to it as "logging". From the typical consumer end-user's viewpoint, I think having myriad "debugging" settings exposed raises some mental flags that using the term "logging" would not. Virtually anyone can understands the need for an application to do logging. But few want anything to do with debugging the application.
Dean, do you have an opinion on this?
Logging sounds great to me.
Created attachment 2057 [details] EN changes obviously all of the other languages need to be done through the translation dept.
Having used this patch for the last couple months, I have to say I hate it. It's not as simple as terminology. --debug command line needs to change or its just painful thinking of the feature in dual forms. It also needs to be rewritten so that the token use is changed so that the page handlers get the right page and sort correctly. I'm not planning to work up such a patch, as I really not buying in on the results.
make "logging" a synonym for "debugging" on the command line. We need to change the web UI to be more friendly.
Just a linguistical question: should "--debug" become "--log" or "--logging"?
Created attachment 2312 [details] add --log parameter kdf - am I naiv in thinking that it would be enough to just add a startup parameter --log, and use this instead of debug if debug is not defined? Internally it's all still debug, but the interface (CLI & GUI) is changed to --log
that could work. I'm not set up to easily run command line any more (prefsdirs, cachedirs are hard to manage, not to mention the discovery problems with using the --*port options) I can hopefully try tomorrow if I can manage to find this again by then :) thinking about it, as much as I'm loathe to re-term purely for the sake of "user friendly" (note the sarcasm as it tends to so easily become "dumbing down" for some)...I think I'd go with 'logging' as the option as it at least has a ring of consistency (well, ok, only for EN but that's the language we write the code in)
Change 14082 - replacing "debugging" with "logging". The two startup parameters are equivalent, with --logging taking precedence over --debug if both are set.
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