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

[Tim Starling]

Waldir Pimenta wrote:
> I understand why it was chosen not to always run bleeding edge versions of
> the software on the live Wikimedia wikis. But the LocalisationUpdate was
> created precisely as a workaround to this, i.e, to allow updating the
> localisation
> without needing to update the software.
> 
> So my question is: why is it not enabled yet on most Wikimedia wikis?

The LocalisationUpdate extension is slow, with a significant
performance loss per page view due to DB queries, and it's
unnecessary, because the same effect can be had with a script that
runs svn up periodically.

-- Tim Starling