to 28. huhtik. 2022 klo 0.12 Tyler Cipriani (tcipriani@wikimedia.org) kirjoitti:
On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 5:22 AM Niklas Laxström niklas.laxstrom@gmail.com 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.
What does that mean for maintenance for the extension for the released versions? Version 1.35 is an LTS that will go end-of-life in September 2023.
I am not sure what your question is, but I'll provide two answers: 1) Backports are an automatic service for extensions, as long as the extension is not archived and is enabled on translatewiki.net. 2) The LocalisationUpdate extension, which is bundled with the tarballs, will continue to receive minimal support (security fixes) in the release branches unless there is a new maintainer who wants to do more than that.
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.
I want to be sure I understand this. Is it correct to say: new l10n messages will continue to be merged into the mainline branches of MediaWiki and extensions and will go live with the weekly train?
This is correct. Backports are an additional service on top of the regular translation updates. MediaWiki core, extensions and skins in Gerrit will continue to receive almost daily translation updates. See for example https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/owner:L10n-bot+branch:master+project:mediaw...
-Niklas