[buddypress-trac] [BuddyPress] #4857: Automatic download of translations from translate.wordpress.org

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#4857: Automatic download of translations from translate.wordpress.org
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 Reporter:  DJPaul                   |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement              |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                   |   Milestone:  1.8
Component:  i18n                     |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                   |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch needs-testing  |
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Comment (by boonebgorges):

 Pretty slick, DJPaul. This'd be great functionality to bake into BP. A
 couple questions:

 - In addition to the weekly check, maybe run during our upgrade routine?
 - There may be setups where WP_LANG_DIR is not writable. It looks like
 `wp_mkdir_p()` will fail gracefully in these cases. But do we want to
 throw an alert so that the admin knows he'll have to fetch the
 translations himself?
 - Do we have any idea how prevalent it is for people to modify the default
 language packs? If people have customized them without changing the
 locale/filename, their stuff will get overwritten.
 - Following up on these last two points, how would you feel about
 prompting the admin instead of doing it in the background? Or: A prompt by
 default, but a checkbox "Do this automatically in the future". I feel a
 bit uneasy about changing files on the user's system without some sort of
 action on his part first.

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