[Engineering] Translations on hold until further notice

Wed Sep 26 22:31:23 UTC 2018

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 <greg at wikimedia.org> 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
>
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