Hi,
On 31/10/2018 09:06, Vincent Massol wrote:
Hi devs,
We currently have
https://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/DatabaseSupportStrategy
However, it doesn’t say explicitly which versions we officially support:
* For HSQLDB it says 2.3.3 which is wrong since the latest version is 2.4.1
* For MySQL it says 5.x but doesn’t specify which specific version(s)
* Same for other DBs
We cannot really support every versions since supporting means testing too.
So what I propose:
Question 1: definition
* We say we support the latest stable version of the databases for a given
version cycle
** For MySQL, it’s the latest of the 5.x cycle, which is 5.7.24 as of today
(see https://hub.docker.com/_/mysql/)
** For PostgreSQL, it’s the latest of the 9.x cycle, which is 9.6.10 as of
today (see https://hub.docker.com/_/postgres/)
** For Oracle, it’s the latest of the 11.x cycle, which is 11.2.0.4.0 as of
today (see
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/enterprise-edition/downloads/index.html)
+1
Question 2: review what we support
* For MySQL I think we could also start supporting MySQL 8.x (ie the latest
version of that cycle). We have an issue open for it currently:
https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-15215
* For PostgreSQL we could also start supporting versions 11.x (ie the latest
version of that cycle)
* For Oracle, we could also start supporting versions 12.x (ie the latest
version of that cycle)
+0 I don't really know how much effort it involves to ensure the support
of the latest version of each database and to fix the bugs accordingly.
Question 3: decide if we drop some support
* Is there any cycle that we should support for? Right now I think that MySQL
5.x is still heavily used, same for postgreSQL 9.x I guess. Don’t know for
Oracle.
* Any idea?
What about the cycles that are bundled in major LTS distributions?
Simon
So WDYT about the 3 questions?
Thanks
-Vincent
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