I don't understand why developers want to see short descriptions; it's not like we are editing courses in production when we run dev instances. And personally, I don't want to see the short description when I run Studio; neither edge nor edx will be showing it, and I'd like my dev environment to be as close to production as possible. But if we decide to turn it on in general via common.py, I'm OK with that.

The main thing here is that if common.py enables short short descriptions, someone has to coordinate with devops to change the configuration options for edx and edge (note that they will both be False) when this gets to production.