On 12/27/2013 03:31 AM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > But I wish there were some way we could change this problem > upstream, i.e. make them see supporting a real DB (someone even > suggested Horracle!) important.
The problem is "addressed upstream" by having people who are interested in their DB of choice support it themselves. As a member of the release management team for MW, I can tell you that we are looking for ways to make sure non-MySQL DB support doesn't break. Right now, though, MySQL has paid staff supporting it and other databases (Oracle, Pg) have volunteers. This means you're at the mercy of the volunteer's time and interest. If there is real interest in making sure Pg is supported, then hopefully the people who are interested in Pg would at least aid in ongoing testing of their DB of choice to make sure it doesn't break and writing bug reports when it does. This means testing HEAD against Pg regularly. It is likely that we could provide you with a test machine on wmflabs that Jenkins could trigger to run the built-in tests against Pg. This sort of testing would be invaluable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
