We have no plans of dropping support at the moment, though we had some discussions about raising the minimum required versions (which are ridiculously low at the moment). On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 6:41 PM, Hogan, Michael C < Michael.C.Hogan2(a)boeing.com&gt; wrote: -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])

remain a recommended database server for "production use" along with MariaDB now that the Foundation has switched to using MariaDB internally Given a migration back to MySQL is not out of the table for us WMF DBAs, and I will complain if we drop compatibility; I would say both MariaDB and MySQL will probably be supported for as long as the databases are or even more- we just "upgraded" the requirements from 5.0 to 5.5 for newer mw versions. That is annoying, and even more worrying to me is MariaDB roadmap about free software/lock-in: https://mariadb.com/bsl-faq-mariadb https://mariadb.com/projects-using-bsl-11 should check for technical roadmap information before emailing wikitech-l? If you are in charge of a mediawiki installation and want to know the ops/db maintenance side of things, get in contact with me on phabricator; I would be glad to share experiences. On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 3:41 AM, Hogan, Michael C < Michael.C.Hogan2(a)boeing.com&gt; wrote: > remain a recommended database server for "production use" along with > MariaDB now that the Foundation has switched to using MariaDB internally? I > know that MariaDB claims to be drop in compatible with MySQL, but the list > of variances seems to be slowly growing. References... > * Compatibility - [[mw:Compatibility]] > * MariaDB support? - [[mw:Topic:R1hqki3kaytylml4]] > * https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/mariadb-vs-mysql-compatibility/ > > Other than [[mw:Compatibility]] on mediawiki.org is there anywhere else > (wiki pages, Phabricator tasks/tags, etc.) that I should check for > technical roadmap information before emailing wikitech-l? > > > Thank you! > Michael > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Jaime Crespo <http://wikimedia.org>