On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Mark A. Hershberger <mah(a)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.