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

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
Three things:

   - Perfection is the enemy of the good; this works now
   - This works for all extensions and MediaWiki supported in the WMF SVN
   and localised in translatewiki.net
   - This is tightly integrated with what has been localised in
   translatewiki.net

There are two benefits to this approach

   - it motivates the people that localise
   - it provides timely support for our localisation effort
   - It works inside the WMF and outside, it is self contained

Again, the scripts for the back port ONLY work for MediaWiki itself This is
not good enough because we need localisations for our extensions as well.
The LocalisationUpdate functionality has been discussed before we started
its development with Brion and Siebrand. This works and it does not require
extra work from Siebrand.. A really important KPI in my opinion.

As you may perceive from the reactions in this list we are wasting a lot of
effort from our volunteers. Implementing LocalisationUpdate is important
because it demonstrates that we value the effort and the importance of the
localisation work that is done at translatewiki.net.
Thanks,
     GerardM

2009/8/13 Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org>

> 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
>
>
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