Update provisioning/release scripts to build `.mo` files.

We need to update provision.py to compile the messages files, since
they are needed for the new i18n tests.  And of course we need to
include the .mo files in release tarballs; there's a bit of complexity
there around how the tarball archives are created.

.gitattributes

@@ -18,3 +18,4 @@
 /frontend_tests export-ignore
 /node_modules export-ignore
 /humbug export-ignore
+/locale export-ignore

README.dev.md

@@ -341,6 +341,7 @@ if [ $(uname) = "OpenBSD" ]; then sudo cp ./puppet/zulip/files/postgresql/zulip_
 ./tools/do-destroy-rebuild-database
 ./tools/postgres-init-test-db
 ./tools/do-destroy-rebuild-test-database
+./manage.py compilemessages
 npm install
 ```
 

provision.py

@@ -185,6 +185,7 @@ def main():
     run(["tools/do-destroy-rebuild-database"])
     run(["tools/postgres-init-test-db"])
     run(["tools/do-destroy-rebuild-test-database"])
+    run(["python", "./manage.py", "compilemessages"])
     # Install the latest npm.
     run(["sudo", "npm", "install", "-g", "npm"])
     # Run npm install last because it can be flaky, and that way one

tools/build-release-tarball

@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ find prod-static/serve/third/gemoji/images/emoji/ -regex '.*\.[0-9a-f]+\.png' -d
 
 cd "$TMPDIR"
 
-tar --append -f "$TARBALL" "$prefix/prod-static" "$prefix/build_id" "$prefix/version"
+tar --append -f "$TARBALL" "$prefix/prod-static" "$prefix/build_id" "$prefix/version" "$prefix/locale"
 
 rm -rf "$prefix"
 

tools/update-prod-static

@@ -45,6 +45,10 @@ subprocess.check_call(['bash', '-ex', 'tools/download-zxcvbn'],
 subprocess.check_call(['python', './manage.py', 'collectstatic', '--noinput'],
                       stdout=fp, stderr=fp)
 
+# Compile translation strings to generate `.mo` files.
+subprocess.check_call(['python', './manage.py', 'compilemessages'],
+                      stdout=fp, stderr=fp)
+
 # Move the source maps out of the serve/ directory and into their
 # proper place.
 subprocess.check_call(['rm', '-rf', 'prod-static/source-map'],