The git-based approach is in my opinion superior because it works out
of the box without any extra effort: neither MediaWiki releases nor
Wikimedia deployments do not need to do anything special to receive
translation updates.
The challenge has been and still is to some extent the frequency of
the releases/deployments. Here is a summary:
* Wikimedia-sites: weekly
** used to be months before LU and current deployment trains, used to
be daily when LU was enabled, not affected by translation backports
* Other sites following the git master branch: (almost) daily
* Other sites following the git release branches: weekly
** for years they did not receive translation updates, fixed by
translation backports
* Other sites following the release tarballs: at least quarterly
** for years they did not receive translation updates, fixed by
translation backports
* Other sites using LocalisationUpdate: depends on the configuration,
up to (almost) daily
-Niklas
ke 27. huhtik. 2022 klo 14.40 Adam Wight (adam.wight(a)wikimedia.de) kirjoitti:
>
> I wonder if this would be a good candidate for event-based replication? One drawback
is that current streams keep at most one month of data [1], but that might be extended for
translations depending on the volume. Another workaround might be to combine regular
releases with a streaming update, for example if a language bundle were released once per
month.
>
> This approach might also work well for Wikimedia sites, I wasn't sure from the
final question in the email whether or not this is an outstanding technical gap.
>
> Regards,
> [[mw:User:Adamw]]
>
> [1]
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event_Platform/EventStreams#Historical_…
>
> On 4/27/22 1:22 PM, Niklas Laxström wrote:
>
> Since the beginning of the year, the Wikimedia Language team has enabled translation
backports for MediaWiki core, extensions and skins hosted on Gerrit. On a weekly schedule
compatible translations from master branch are backpored to all the supported release
branches. Currently supported branches are 1.35–1.38.
>
> Translation backports partially replace the purpose of the LocalisationUpdate
extension. Wikimedia sites no longer use the extension, and to our knowledge only a few
other users of the extension exist, because it needs manual setup to use.
>
> We, the Language team, think that maintaining the LocalisationUpdate extension is no
longer a good use of our time. We are asking for your feedback about the future of this
extension.
>
> We are planning to:
> * Remove LocalisationUpdate from the MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle starting
from version 2022.07
> * Remove us as maintainers of the extension
>
> Additionally, based on the feedback, we are planning to either mark the extension as
unmaintained, transfer maintenance to a new maintainer, or request the extension to be
archived and removed from the list of extensions bundled with MediaWiki core if there is
no indication that anyone uses this extension.
>
> We request your feedback and welcome discussion on
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T300498. Please let us know if you are using this
extension and whether you would be interested in maintaining it.
>
> Anticipated questions
> Q: What about Wikimedia sites: does this mean they will not get frequent translation
updates as they used to have?
>
> A: We still think this is important, but we do not think the previous solution can be
restored. We would like to collaborate on new solutions. One solution could be more
frequent deployments.
>
> -Niklas
>
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