vladjohn2013 wrote:

Hi, this project is still listed at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#MediaWiki_LocalisationUpdate_for_all

Should this project be still listed in that page? If not, please remove it. If it still makes sense, then it could be moved to the "Featured projects" section if it has community support and mentors.

According to GSoC 2014 results:

A project was created: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LocalisationUpdate/LUv2

Code was published at https://github.com/konarak/LUv2/tree/epicmess

The mentors considered the project PASSED, but it is unclear from the updates in which status it is now:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LocalisationUpdate/LUv2/Updates

We are also missing the required blog post summarizing all this.

Please wrap up properly your project.

konarak.11 wrote:

Hi Quim, sorry for the delays.

The work on the LUv2 service is done. I am yet to start working on writing code for the extension (which can be integrated with core) due to some meatspace work. I'll make sure to publish the final report by the end of this week (SF time).

Nikerabbit, please revert T48653#1146478 if it doesn't fit your suggestion of yesterday on #wikimedia-releng.

Nikerabbit, do you prefer to work on this alone when you have time or should we look for a GSoC application?

I do not want to propose many topics because I cannot mentor them all.

Finishing this task means bringing it to "production" which means setting up secure and stable service, which can be problematic for GSoC task.

Rephrasing summary. I don't think this functionality should be in core. However, once stable and proven, I think it would make a great candidate for bundling with core (by default) – as was originally requested and how this task came to be (T45815).

See also: T158360: RFC: Reevaluate LocalisationUpdate extension for WMF

Re the new summary, note there was already a project called LocalisationUpdate v2 or LUv2 (never finished/put into use).

In case anyone is interested, I am working on translation backport support, which would let third parties to get new translations with point releases or on a regular schedule if they are pulling from release branches in git.