Hi Greg; Thanks for the heads up. Do we have a ballpark estimate for when we can resume merging translatable strings? next week? 2019?
On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 3:20 PM Greg Grossmeier <[email protected]> wrote: > tl;dr: Please refrain from adding new strings that require translations > to MediaWiki and deployed extensions until further notice. > > Due to changes we are making in the way our translation systems process > data we will be temporarily disabling the auto deployment of newly > translated content until further notice. The goal of these changes will > be to improve the evaluation of content submitted to our translation > services. > > This means developers should not merge new translatable strings into > MediaWiki Core nor Wikimedia deployed extensions until we re-enable the > system. This is to prevent longer term issues where local wiki admins > overwrite a string and thus prevent updates from new and improved > translations. > > We apologize for any inconvenience this delay in service may cause and > will alert you as soon as this maintenance is completed. > > Greg Grossmeier > > -- > | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | > | Release Team Manager A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D | > -- Trevor Bolliger Product Manager, Anti-Harassment Wikimedia Foundation
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