(anonymous) 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.
JFTR: AFAICS Jenkins is still not set up for MySQL :-)
(cf. <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/35912>).
Tim