On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Mark A. Hershberger <m...@everybody.org> 
wrote:
> But right now, I don't sense a huge amount of friction between the WMF's
> needs and the non-WMF MediaWiki-using community.  The most that can be
> said is that the WMF is focused on its sites and doesn't make third
> party use a priority.  This doesn't stop support for other databases,
> though: Oracle, MS SQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, or even my recent changes to
> separate out DB schema changes in MySQL.

Yes, unfortunately schema changes and other DB related changesets tend
to only get applied to MySQL/SQLite, and the other DBs tend to get
ignored or lag behind by a few months.  That's about my only gripe,
that, and that setting jenkins up for these other backends was never
completed.

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