(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