Re: [Wikitech-l] Roadmap for continued compatibility with MySQL

2017-10-20 Thread Jaime Crespo
> How many years into the future is it reasonable to expect that MySQL will remain a recommended database server for "production use" along with MariaDB now that the Foundation has switched to using MariaDB internally Given a migration back to MySQL is not out of the table for us WMF DBAs, and I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Roadmap for continued compatibility with MySQL

2017-10-19 Thread Brian Wolff
On Thursday, October 19, 2017, Hogan, Michael C wrote: > How many years into the future is it reasonable to expect that MySQL will remain a recommended database server for "production use" along with MariaDB now that the Foundation has switched to using MariaDB

Re: [Wikitech-l] Roadmap for continued compatibility with MySQL

2017-10-19 Thread Max Semenik
We have no plans of dropping support at the moment, though we had some discussions about raising the minimum required versions (which are ridiculously low at the moment). On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 6:41 PM, Hogan, Michael C < michael.c.hog...@boeing.com> wrote: > How many years into the future is

[Wikitech-l] Roadmap for continued compatibility with MySQL

2017-10-19 Thread Hogan, Michael C
How many years into the future is it reasonable to expect that MySQL will remain a recommended database server for "production use" along with MariaDB now that the Foundation has switched to using MariaDB internally? I know that MariaDB claims to be drop in compatible with MySQL, but the list