On 1/7/08, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
Simetrical wrote:
I vote for this. Give BetaWiki its own SVN account and use it automatically. That would make it much easier to filter out the flood of localization-only commits, for those who want to (lately they seem to be dominating the software changes).
Good idea. But maybe delay a bit the commit (about 5 minutes) so if the translator changes again the message it doesn't flood the svn commits?
Nikerabbit and I talked about this on IRC. He thought it was a bad idea: there would be too many commits, and they should be reviewed before deployment by a human.
The i18n commits are really drowning out everything else on MediaWiki-CVS-l, though. I can just delete 30 localization e-mails a day, but if I could figure out a way to block them it would be easier. What generates the text of those e-mails? Could it examine the list of changed files and add a keyword if they only change paths matching /.i18n|messages/ or whatever?