[Wikitech-l] Re: Requesting feedback about the future of the LocalisationUpdate extension

2022-05-08 Thread Kunal Mehta
Hi, On 4/27/22 07:22, 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 suppor

[Wikitech-l] Re: Requesting feedback about the future of the LocalisationUpdate extension

2022-04-28 Thread Niklas Laxström
The git-based approach is in my opinion superior because it works out of the box without any extra effort: neither MediaWiki releases nor Wikimedia deployments do not need to do anything special to receive translation updates. The challenge has been and still is to some extent the frequency of the

[Wikitech-l] Re: Requesting feedback about the future of the LocalisationUpdate extension

2022-04-28 Thread Niklas Laxström
to 28. huhtik. 2022 klo 0.12 Tyler Cipriani (tcipri...@wikimedia.org) kirjoitti: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 5:22 AM 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 >

[Wikitech-l] Re: Requesting feedback about the future of the LocalisationUpdate extension

2022-04-27 Thread Tyler Cipriani
👋 I have a few questions about the tarball release and the Wikimedia sites. On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 5:22 AM 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

[Wikitech-l] Re: Requesting feedback about the future of the LocalisationUpdate extension

2022-04-27 Thread Adam Wight
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