Auto update translations when the respective plugin/theme is updated

[danieltj]

I find updating translations a bit of a pain because they only seem to appear (rightly so though) once you've updated a plugin or a theme. It'd be great if translations could be automatically updated after the respective plugin or theme has been updated removing the need to check if there are any translations waiting.

Most often I find myself updating a plugin and then committing the update into version control and it's not until the commit has gone through that I reload the page to see that I now have new translation strings waiting. They really should be bundled with the main update of the plugin/theme.

[afragen]

If you include the translation files in your plugin this will always be an issue as your translators won’t see a new POT file until you publish the plugin. There are 2 solutions.

1. Allow translations to happen via translate.wordpress.org
2. Use a process for decoupled language pack updating, ​https://thefragens.com/translations-updater/