Hi,

With OFBIZ-9352 (under OFBIZ-10565) Pierre Smits propose to remove unused 
labels from AccountingUiLabels.xml

This morning I looked at the related PR (17) and, using Label Manager (in Webtools) found that there are much more unused labels than those Pierre proposes to remove.

I checked the 5 1st ones locally in my IDE and they are indeed unused (no 
references at all but in the label file).

Now we had already a talk with Pierre, Scott and Michael about removing labels 
in OFBIZ-9352.

Scott, Michael, and I in a less measure, are cautious about the reasons to remove 
"unused" labels and you can read in OFBIZ-9352.

To define an unused labels I repeat what I said above:

An unused label is a label reported by the Label Manager as unused that can be 
checked as unused by hand.

As you can see with my answer to Scoot in OFBIZ-9352, more work may be needed 
if we want to trace why a label is unused.

My question, is should we remove unused labels?

And if we do so, which steps should me required:

1. Label Manager
2. Check by hand locally
3. Trace the reason

Obviously if we require the 3 steps nobody will do it (will you?).

Even the 2 steps are much work for a little benefit

So what? Should we close Jira issues related to removing unused labels as won't do. 
Should they stay for the "eternity"?

About the Label Manager "unused labels" option, I think it can be still useful 
in custom projects, but, as shown above, tricky OOTB.

Jacques

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