El 5/16/09 2:43 PM, George Herbert escribió:
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I appreciate what you're saying, but I've been
the person who had to clean
up several large environments (much larger than WMF) after they let software
get too old, and it was very much not pretty.
If you're not keeping currentish and testing new stuff,
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As a matter of fact, we are keeping currentish and testing new stuff.
Just about everyone's development systems and most third-party MediaWiki
installations run on MySQL 5.x, and Domas (a Sun/MySQL support engineer)
has been testing MySQL 5.x in limited runs within the Wikimedia cluster
over the last year or so. MediaWiki's functionality on MySQL 5.x is well
known.
In the meantime, our primary production machines are running time-proven
MySQL 4.0.x with up-to-date stability and performance patches maintained
by Google -- fixes which have not yet all been rolled back to mainline 5.x.
-- brion vibber (brion @
wikimedia.org)