From 216658376766e1177a78041757971cf4a3d3201a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eduardo Villalpando Mello <eduardovil@microsoft.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2026 11:28:54 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Prepare manual shared localization onboarding

Add an opt-in English submission workflow pinned to the tested manifest metadata compatibility fix. Preserve existing Azure localization until service onboarding and template review are complete.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Copilot-Session: 956d3afd-ae0b-486c-a60c-3a6276c23213
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 .github/workflows/localization.yml | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .github/workflows/localization.yml

diff --git a/.github/workflows/localization.yml b/.github/workflows/localization.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..833eca993889
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/localization.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+name: Localization
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+concurrency:
+  group: localization-${{ github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: false
+
+jobs:
+  localization:
+    if: github.repository == 'microsoft/vscode-python'
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 20
+    steps:
+      - uses: microsoft/vscode-python-ci/actions/localization@05dd271ac59b698579103111304fda09068ba95a
+        with:
+          app-id: ${{ vars.PYTHON_LOCALIZATION_APP_ID }}
+          private-key: ${{ secrets.PYTHON_LOCALIZATION_PRIVATE_KEY }}
+          source-paths: '["src/client"]'
+          node-version: '22.21.1'