This wasn't strictly a vote but everyone agreed with the proposal so it''s now our official database support strategy! :)
Sorin is going to make it available at http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/DatabaseSupportStrategy Thanks everyone -Vincent On Mar 23, 2012, at 11:47 AM, Vincent Massol wrote: > Hi devs, > > In the same spirit as what we have done for Browsers (see > http://xwiki.markmail.org/thread/pn45a7qaefuplpye ) here's a proposal for > Databases since we don't have a clear strategy ATM. > > I propose that by "supporting" we mean: > - issues created for these DBs in jira are not closed as won't fix and we > make a best effort to fix them > - we include these DBs in our tests (be them automated or manual) > - when we create new features or modify existing features we make a best > effort to verify that they work on the supported list of DBs > > Proposal: > > * HSQLDB: only support the version bundled in the standalone zip > * MySQL: We officially support the last major version, i.e. 5.0+ ATM > * PostgreSQL: We officially support the last major version, i.e. 9.0+ ATM > * Oracle: We officially support the last major version, i.e. 11g ATM > * DB2: We don't officially support it. This means that we don't test against > it, we don't ensure that new feature work on it but if someone raises an > issue in jira and it's easy to fix (or if someone provides a patch) then we > fix it. > * Derby: Same as DB2 > * Microsoft SQL Server: Same as DB2 > * H2: Same as DB2 for the moment (it would change if we decide to replace > HSQLDB by H2 one day) > * Others: Same as DB2 > > I also propose that in the Release notes for each version of XWiki we mention > the list of DBs we have tested against and that we "support". > > Here's my +1 > > Thanks > -Vincent > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
