Not that I don't have many other things to do with my time, but I think that the refactoring is a good idea, and that someone bringing the Oracle support up to speed and sustaining it as well would be useful too.
Of course, I said this a couple of years ago, and haven't had time to code anything... -george On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:22 AM, Tim Starling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Leons Petrazickis wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I work on the DB2 database server at IBM. In my personal time, I've >> written a patch to add DB2 support to MediaWiki. It supports most of >> the MediaWiki Database API with some gaps in searching and admin. I'm >> involved in launching a site based on the patch and moving another >> wiki onto it, so the gaps should be plugged in due time. >> >> I don't have commit access. Could someone help get this committed? > > Will you continue to maintain it? I wouldn't like to see it committed once > and then slowly rot. I think you should get commit access, commit it > yourself, and then maintain it into the future. > > Maintenance of non-MySQL DBMS code has been a problem in the past, we > really need someone to refactor the common code to Database, move > MySQL-specific code to DatabaseMysql, and generalise the installer and > updater. If you're looking for something to do. > > I'm doing some work on the installer frontend, but a DBMS-independent > schema update system (like updaters.inc) would be orthogonal to that. > > -- Tim Starling > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- -george william herbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
