Victoriano Giralt writes:
Thanks Stephen for reminding me that sometimes I write what looks like proper English on the surface, but the meaning of it comes from the deep corners of my mind in some long forgotten dialect :-)
Your English is fine, it was just my lack of imagination: on February 12, I couldn't conceive of February 3 being even a little "old"!
More important, as long as the .mo file is more recent than the .po file, that's the best the release manager can do. I haven't been involved in the release process, so I can't swear to it personally, but if Mark says that new translations generate a merge request automatically, and we make sure that the translations are merged before release, I believe him. That's optimal as far I am concerned.
Perhaps some enterprising soul would be willing to automate production of pip'able packages containing only new translations, but without that, I don't see how to beat our current procedures. (I wouldn't want to use such a thing, though, I'd be too afraid that one day all the translations would be replaced with Dril tweets!)