Good $localtime from translatewiki.net. I have been working with Chad and Antoine to resume the daily translation updates from translatewiki.net after the partial git migration of MediaWiki.
We now have scripts that enable twn staff to * create clones of mediawiki core (with four branches: master 1.19 1.18 1.17) * create clones or all mediawiki extensions (both from svn and git, git taking precedence over git) * update those to latest versions * export translations * commit exported translations
TL;DR: repo [create|update|export|commit] [mediawiki|mediawiki-extensions|...]
The commmits for git will use the l10n-bot commit account. Commits for svn will continue to happen with our personal accounts. As you know every extension is now a separate git repository, there will be LOTS of commits instead of just one in a day.
There are few remaining issues: * automatic merging of translation commits [BLOCKER] * not spamming your inbox with translation update commits * pretty formatting of core message files [BLOCKER]
Now the last issue is something I want your opinion on: Is it an issue if we drop pretty formatting of non-English message files? If it is an issue, I request your help to make the maintenance/language/rebuildLanguage.php script to support arbitrary location instead of just the current wiki installation. If it is not an issue, the first diffs will be big because of the change, but remaining ones will be small as usual.
-Niklas