2011/5/29 Ashar Voultoiz <hashar+wmf(a)free.fr>fr>:
I do not understand the purpose of this daily update,
does it serves any
specific purpose? I do not feel like we require up-to-date translations
in trunk.
The purpose of the frequent updates is to give the translators a
feeling that something actually happens with the work they do. On a
wiki an editor sees his changes immediately, which is a Good Thing,
and the translation system tries to get as close as possible to that.
I am working with many other software translation websites - Launchpad
(Rosetta), GlotPress, BabelZilla, Narro and others. None of them gets
anywhere near
Translatewiki.net in giving to the translators that good
feeling that their work is seen by other people. This good feeling is
one of the main things that drives the translators to translate more.
This is a strong and frequently overlooked advantage, which the
MediaWiki community has over many other localized software
communities, and it must be kept.
That said, being a coder myself, i can understand that it can be a
burden on the developers, and i would welcome any solution that
doesn't ruin the above-mentioned advantage. Maybe a separate repo for
translations?.. Sorry, i'm not much of an SCM expert.