I'm still active on Oracle front, but as you might have noticed i have been [WARNING ... understatement ahead] a bit busy in the last 1,5 year so i just can't manage to pay as much attention to what's going on as i would like to ...
I used to get paid by my company to do this, but due to some budget cuts and some other projects that keep me busy at the office and over the weekends i'm now maintaining this in the little i have left of my own spare time. I'm still trying to stay up to date, but i just can't manage to stay involved in the actual development and the comunity as i used to, but if anyone needs my help with testing and fixing bugs in my department, my mailbox is always open. Because of this lack of time on my part i can't keep track of all the changes being made and i would appretiate it if somone could drop me a line if there are oracle specific issues ... as i'm doing a lot of DBA work i've got access to Oracle installations of all shapes and sizes, so i can test on almost any Oracle version.
As to the current state ... in the last 6 months most of the changes to the code just was keeping up to date with schema changes ... no major issues so i'm quite satisfied with the current state, i still wouldn't suggest it to anyone who would expect it to just plug and play, but if the admin has any DBA-fu moves up his sleeve it performs nicely. I'm planning get back into the game and do some development in a month or so (when i finish one of my other projects) to bring some of the extensions i've developed for my company and my clients into git and update my farms to a more recent version (i'm still running those farms on 1.17) ...
... so ... yeah ... i'm still alive and kicking here ... glad to see ppl still remember i exist :D
LP, Jure
On 25. 02. 2013 16:40, Chad wrote:
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 7:27 AM, Mark A. Hershberger mah@everybody.org wrote:
Getting Jenkins involved in testing isn't the (only) answer, though it would certainly help.
If developers who were interested in those databases could watch includes/db, that would help, as well.
The latter is the real problem here. We don't have any people who are dedicated to supporting these. People show up, say they want to work on supporting these, then disappear.
Covering all the non-mysql/sqlite we "support":
- DB2 has been unmaintained for ages, and personally I'm in favor
of dropping that one altogether.
- MSSQL would be nice to improve.
- Oracle support's not bad (maybe not perfect), freakolowsy would
know more.
- Postgres support needs major work. There's a lot of inconsistencies
between PG and the other backends (especially for install/upgrade). There *are* people here who care about PG.
-Chad
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