About a month ago it seemed like that things were heading to the right direction: we had working l10n commit auto-merging and LocalisationUpdate running. That only lasted couple of days and since then things have only gotten worse - neither auto-merge nor LU have been reliably working for almost two months now. We at translatewiki.net get the blame and have to apologize for our translators who are rightfully complaining.
I spent lots of hours on the week and weekend after the switch support l10n commits to Gerrit. While doing that I modernized our repository handling scripts, but the time savings those provide are negated by the fact now someone has get to wrist injury manually accepting all the commits in Gerrit. Not to mention just processing hundreds of repositories is many times slower than one.
Translatewiki.net was also the first big site to switch to Git while *also* having SVN extension around. WMF forced all its extensions to move to Git unconditionally to simplify things. To date there are no scripts to help third party sites maintain their wikis with both Git and SVN extensions.
I've asked many times to announce new repositories and other big changes (like history rewrites) to repositories on wikitech-l, but that is still not happening. For example the recent rewrite of histories of map extensions was unannounced and delayed l10n commits for at least one day, because our scripts don't handle that situation automatically.
Some extension commits go past Gerrit code review. This means that it is impossible to even get notifications on those extensions. Some of those extensions are in use at translatewiki.net and given the numerous breakages related to those extensions lately, I am seriously considering removing those extensions from translatewiki.net until this issue is solved. That is bye bye to maps showing our registered translators around the world.
I am not willing to run code that is both unreviewed and not seen by me. We did talk about this before the migration and I'm very annoyed it happened anyway and that people think this is acceptable [1].
These and other issues are bugging me every day (some of you already know this very well) and I desperately want to get them out of my mind and in to the past.
-Niklas
[1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/36927