I would be happy to install some mediawiki on oracle db, but I have no oracle db on any of my personal servers :/
The main problem of oracle is that it's not very much free - thus it's not packaged by most of linux vendors and it might be hard to install for many sysadmins. (In order to install oracle, you don't just need a system that meets all the technical parameters, but also good understanding of response files used by their universal installer). From my experience, installing oracle db on debian or ubuntu is pretty complicated (installation on oracle linux and such is not that hard though - it comes with exact version of packages that oracle requires). However - it's not a freeware and that automatically makes it very unpopular for open source OS vendors and very unlikely a choice of standard webadmin and that makes it hard to test. Even if I was able to obtain some license to install oracle on any of my servers, I wouldn't do it as it eats too much resources. On other hand if oracle granted some license to wikimedia, we could set up a project on wikimedia labs for this purpose. On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Mark A. Hershberger <m...@everybody.org> wrote: > How can we improve the support for databases like PostgreSQL, Oracle, > DB2 and MS SQL? > > Getting Jenkins involved in testing isn't the (only) answer, though it > would certainly help. > > If developers who were interested in those databases could watch > includes/db, that would help, as well. > > If nothing else, I will make an effort to get the developers for those > databases involved in RC testing and make the RC available a month > before release. > > -- > http://hexmode.com/ > > There is no path to peace. Peace is the path. > -- Mahatma Gandhi, "Non-Violence in Peace and War" > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
