On 29.05.2011, 11:16 Ashar wrote:

> The files in the languages/messages/ directory are quite big and 
> currently altered every day.  Yesterday, I had to bisect a bug and most
> of the delay was caused by fetching the languages files.

I  use  the  git  mirror  at  Github  for  bisecting,  it works almost
instaneously.

> I do not understand the purpose of this daily update, does it serves any
> specific purpose?  I do not feel like we require up-to-date translations
> in trunk.

In  theory,  it  is  possible  to push l18n updates to live site using
Ext:LocalisationUpdate,  but  I'm  not  sure if it is practiced these2
days due to huge lag between trunk and WMF cluster.

> I have a similar issue with not so much edited extensions for which the
> log is mostly i18n translations thus hiding the real code commits.

Then  CR  should  be  fixed  to  allow  more  flexible  filtering, not
development process be pushed 5 years back.




-- 
Best regards,
  Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])


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