[Foundation-l] Why hasn't the LocalisationUpdate extension been enabled?

[Tim Starling]

Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> Hoi,
> When a back port is created, There is *a lot of manual work* involved in
> preparing the messages that are relevant to a specific release. As it is,
> translatewiki.net localises the latest development versions of software and
> this is not what runs in production. The key functionality of
> LocalisationUpdate is that it ensures that the messages it imports are
> compatible with the version of MediaWiki that runs in that instance of the
> software, including extensions.

Wouldn't the release branches be improved if you ported that
functionality from LocalisationUpdate to the backport automation
scripts run on translatewiki.net? And then we'd be able to get
translation updates with a simple "svn up" instead of adding a
complex, tightly-integrated extension to the main MediaWiki instance
on Wikimedia.

-- Tim Starling