[ome-devel] Shoola-back-end consistency issues

[Harry Hochheiser]

On Jul 7, 2005, at 10:51 AM, Ilya Goldberg wrote:
>> I haven't done any polls or anything, but as I was getting into OME,
>> there was a certain learning curve just to get the terminonology down.
>> Perhaps this is the case no matter what we call things, but I have the
>> feeling that our little language tends to alienate.
>
> That's fine Josh.  Everyone's a critic.  How about some suggestions 
> for what you think might work better?  I'm not saying what we have is 
> perfect, its just better than anything else on the table.  Calling the 
> same thing by different names seems like a bad idea unless you have 
> some really good suggestion how to handle it.
>
>

I don't think it's necessarily a matter of renaming things - using our 
lingo more appropriately might help.  "Module Execution" is a 
lower-level concept that can (in many cases) be hidden from users. We 
should hide terminology like that whenever we can.

-harry