> On 12 Nov 2018, at 16:52, Vincent Massol <vinc...@massol.net> wrote:
>
> So we need to conclude on this thread. I’m proposing to update the page with:
>
> * HSQLDB - Latest only
> * MySQL - latest of oldstable/stable/unstable from
> https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=mysql-server&searchon=names&exact=1
> (i.e. latest of 5.5.x and 5.7.x today)
> * PostgreSQL - latest of oldstable/stable/unstable
> fromhttps://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=postgresql&searchon=names&exact=1
> (i.e. latest of 9.4.x, 9.6.x and 11.x today)
> * Oracle - latest of 12.x (we currently test on 11.x AFAIK so we need to
> start testing on 12.x from now on)
>
> Note that by “support" we mean test on. And it’s not because a version is not
> supported that it doesn’t work nor that we won’t fix it if a problem happens.
>
> I hesitated a long time for the mysql/pgsql versions since I wanted only a
> single version supported, but since we provide a debian packaging it makes
> sense to test the versions defined by the debian repos, and now that we have
> automated functional tests on various configurations, we can test on them.
> BTW I suggest we run all tests on the latest version only (i.e. 5.7.x for
> mysql and 11.x for postgresql, and move to mysql 8.x when we fix the bug on
> it) and then we do smoke tests on the other versions.
>
> Let me know quickly if you have a problem with this strategy since I’d like
> to update the page + add the configs in our CI tests.
FYI, I’ve now updated the page at
https://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/DatabaseSupportStrategy (but I
can update/revert if need be).
Thanks
-Vincent
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
>
>> On 31 Oct 2018, at 09:06, Vincent Massol <vinc...@massol.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hi devs,
>>
>> We currently have
>> https://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/DatabaseSupportStrategy
>>
>> However, it doesn’t say explicitly which versions we officially support:
>> * For HSQLDB it says 2.3.3 which is wrong since the latest version is 2.4.1
>> * For MySQL it says 5.x but doesn’t specify which specific version(s)
>> * Same for other DBs
>>
>> We cannot really support every versions since supporting means testing too.
>>
>> So what I propose:
>>
>> Question 1: definition
>>
>> * We say we support the latest stable version of the databases for a given
>> version cycle
>> ** For MySQL, it’s the latest of the 5.x cycle, which is 5.7.24 as of today
>> (see https://hub.docker.com/_/mysql/)
>> ** For PostgreSQL, it’s the latest of the 9.x cycle, which is 9.6.10 as of
>> today (see https://hub.docker.com/_/postgres/)
>> ** For Oracle, it’s the latest of the 11.x cycle, which is 11.2.0.4.0 as of
>> today (see
>> https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/enterprise-edition/downloads/index.html)
>>
>> Question 2: review what we support
>>
>> * For MySQL I think we could also start supporting MySQL 8.x (ie the latest
>> version of that cycle). We have an issue open for it currently:
>> https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-15215
>> * For PostgreSQL we could also start supporting versions 11.x (ie the latest
>> version of that cycle)
>> * For Oracle, we could also start supporting versions 12.x (ie the latest
>> version of that cycle)
>>
>> Question 3: decide if we drop some support
>>
>> * Is there any cycle that we should support for? Right now I think that
>> MySQL 5.x is still heavily used, same for postgreSQL 9.x I guess. Don’t know
>> for Oracle.
>> * Any idea?
>>
>> So WDYT about the 3 questions?
>>
>> Thanks
>> -Vincent
>
