I wonder if this would be a good candidate for event-based replication?
One drawback is that current streams keep at most one month of data [1],
but that might be extended for translations depending on the volume.
Another workaround might be to combine regular releases with a streaming
update, for example if a language bundle were released once per month.
This approach might also work well for Wikimedia sites, I wasn't sure
from the final question in the email whether or not this is an
outstanding technical gap.
Regards,
[[mw:User:Adamw]]
[1]
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event_Platform/EventStreams#Historical_…
On 4/27/22 1:22 PM, Niklas Laxström 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.
Translation backports partially replace the purpose of the
LocalisationUpdate extension. Wikimedia sites no longer use the
extension, and to our knowledge only a few other users of the
extension exist, because it needs manual setup to use.
We, the Language team, think that maintaining the LocalisationUpdate
extension is no longer a good use of our time. We are asking for your
feedback about the future of this extension.
We are planning to:
* Remove LocalisationUpdate from the MediaWiki Language Extension
Bundle starting from version 2022.07
* Remove us as maintainers of the extension
Additionally, based on the feedback, we are planning to either mark
the extension as unmaintained, transfer maintenance to a new
maintainer, or request the extension to be archived and removed from
the list of extensions bundled with MediaWiki core if there is no
indication that anyone uses this extension.
We request your feedback and welcome discussion on
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T300498
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T300498>. Please let us know if you
are using this extension and whether you would be interested in
maintaining it.
*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.
-Niklas
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