[Foundation-l] Why hasn't the LocalisationUpdate extension been enabled?

Thu Aug 13 14:27:05 UTC 2009

Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> Hoi,
> The problem with svn up is that it does not take into account that the
> software run in production is not the same version that exists in SVN.
> Consequently you could update messages that are no longer the same. What
> LocalisationUpdate does is verify if the message in English in SVN is the
> same as the one that is currently running. When the messages are exactly the
> same, it follows that the localised messages are also the same.

Apparently that's not a problem for the release branches, which often
receive backported message updates from translatewiki.net. Why can't
the same backporting be done for the wmf-deployment branch?

-- Tim Starling