= Basics
* Extension name & docs: [[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TranslationNotifications | TranslationNotifications ]]
* Repository: {rETRN}
* Authors/Maintainers: @jhsoby, @Amire80, @santhosh, @Nikerabbit and @siebrand (cf. mediawiki.org)
* Others: @Legoktm and @Glaisher both have contributed to the extension as well.
= Rubric
**Was it a cause of production outages or incidents? List them.**
Yes. Several major bugs (T48310, T63122, T107708, T129069, T144780, T154736 & T160276) keep the extension unusable at this moment at Meta-Wiki.
**Does it have sufficient hardware resources for now and the near future (to take into account expected usage growth)?**
N/A
**Is it a frequent cause of monitoring alerts that need action, and are they addressed timely and appropriately?**
N/A
**When it was first deployed to Wikimedia production**
2012 per {T38235}.
**Usage statistics based on audience(s) served**
N/A
**Changes committed in last 1, 3, 6, and 12 months (excluding builds updates and translation updates)**
- from 2017-01 to 2017-12: 5 commits
- from 2018-01 to 2018-02-18: 2 commits
**Reliance on outdated platforms (e.g. operating systems)**
N/A
**Number of developers who committed code in the last 1, 3, 6, and 12 months**
Excluding builds and translation updates: @Jayprakash12345, @Umherirrender and @MarcoAurelio
**Number and age of open patches**
Currently only one patch open: <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/409573/>.
**Number and age of open bugs**
There are 25 public maniphest tasks, of which the oldest one is from March 2014 ([[ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/ODseCmVjyGDW/#R | source ]]).
**Number of known dependencies?**
Extension needs #mediawiki-extensions-translate to work.
**Is there a replacement/alternative for the feature? Is there a plan for a replacement?**
No / Maybe #notifications integration
= Stats
https://wikimedia.biterg.io/goto/cc233085c0c111cd52dd7864622dbd3b
= Short statement
#mediawiki-extensions-translationnotifications is an extension that allows translation administrators, on wikis where #mediawiki-extensions-translate is enabled, to notify a list of subscribed translators when there's something new to translate, so we can keep translations as updated as possible.
Notwithstanding that being a good idea, a number of unresolved Tasks are pilling on and no resources are being allocated to fix them. As per T144780#2993927 this extension is not being looked into except for `UBN` tasks.
While the number of tasks at this moment is [[ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/W1dFM.aCx1yK/ | low ]], some of them, to wit, {T63122}, {T160276}. {T144780} and {T129069} have made the extension unusable on some production wikis, such as Meta-Wiki (where we had to [[ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Translationnotifications-text-fetchi18n | soft-disable ]] it), being Meta-Wiki the largest project where translations are made for policies, elections and other stuff.
= Desired outcome
Given that the extension is useful, sunsetting is not recommended, but it'd be good to find volunteers or allocate resources so work on this extension can be resumed (specially focus at first on fixing the high priority bugs) and make the extension usable again on production or investigate integration with another product.