Kill off large tag descriptions?

Martin Geisler <mgeislermgeisler.net> writes:

> Hi again,
>
> I would like to hear if anybody uses the large
descriptions in PelTag
> of the individual tags?
>
> I don't like them and I'm thinking of dropping them
because:
>
> * They are more or less verbatim copies from the Exif
specification,
>   so I guess it is a violation of their copyright to
include them.
>
> * They refer to examples, tables, and figures from the
Exif
>   specification which means that some of the
descriptions doesn't make
>   much sense by themselves.
>
> * They're marked as translatable, but I don't expect
anybody to ever
>   work all the way through them.
>
> * They are somewhat large. I just trimmed the file down
to 45 KiB from
>   111 KiB. To that one should add the savings from the
smaller .po
>   files and API docs.
>
> Any arguments for or against?

No feedback yet... I've come up with an argument against
deleting the
descriptions:

* Some of them have already been translated, and by deleting
them we
  throw that work out of the window.

Before deleting the descriptions the statistics looked like
this:

  da.po:  289 translated,   0 fuzzy, 112 untranslated
  de.po:  101 translated,  32 fuzzy, 268 untranslated
  es.po:  281 translated,  27 fuzzy,  93 untranslated
  fr.po:  285 translated,   1 fuzzy, 115 untranslated
  ja.po:  210 translated,   1 fuzzy, 190 untranslated
  pl.po:  254 translated,  56 fuzzy,  91 untranslated
  ---------------------------------------------------
  Total: 1420 translated, 117 fuzzy, 869 untranslated

Here 1420 / (1420+117+869) = 59% of the messages have been
translated.
After the trimming, we get:

  da.po:  253 translated,  0 fuzzy,  21 untranslated
  de.po:   96 translated, 29 fuzzy, 149 untranslated
  es.po:  194 translated, 14 fuzzy,  66 untranslated
  fr.po:  236 translated,  0 fuzzy,  38 untranslated
  ja.po:  203 translated,  1 fuzzy,  70 untranslated
  pl.po:  171 translated, 39 fuzzy,  64 untranslated
  --------------------------------------------------
  Total: 1153 translated, 83 fuzzy, 408 untranslated

The translation percentage is now 70% 

(Hmm... It would be fun to have such statistics generated
automatically like I've seen it at other projects.)

Regardless of those statistics, I'm going to delete the
descriptions.
Mostly because many of them cannot be properly translated
(with their
references to tables and figures in the Exif spec) and
because they
are from said spec.

-- 
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