[Foundation-l] Why hasn't the LocalisationUpdate extension been enabled?

Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen at gmail.com
Thu Aug 13 09:52:32 UTC 2009


Hoi,
Why then is svn up not run every day on the Wikimedia Foundation's  servers
??
Thanks,
       GerardM

2009/8/13 Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org>

> Waldir Pimenta wrote:
> > I understand why it was chosen not to always run bleeding edge versions
> of
> > the software on the live Wikimedia wikis. But the LocalisationUpdate was
> > created precisely as a workaround to this, i.e, to allow updating the
> > localisation
> > without needing to update the software.
> >
> > So my question is: why is it not enabled yet on most Wikimedia wikis?
>
> The LocalisationUpdate extension is slow, with a significant
> performance loss per page view due to DB queries, and it's
> unnecessary, because the same effect can be had with a script that
> runs svn up periodically.
>
> -- Tim Starling
>
>
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