23 Mar
2012
23 Mar
'12
12:23 p.m.
On Mar 23, 2012, at 12:20 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:
On Mar 23, 2012, at 12:08 PM, Jerome Velociter wrote:
That said it's not going to be easy to test all minor versions so we'll probably
only test some versions; hoping that they haven't made too many changes amongst minor
versions...
When I wrote the email I hesitated a bit by saying that we officially support only the
last released version (5.5.x for mysql for ex) but it's a bit limitating. OTOH saying
that we support 5.x is just not honest since it's not true. We're not going to
test all minor versions at all releases (which is what "supported" means, see
the definition above)...
Thanks
-Vincent
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Vincent Massol
<vincent(a)massol.net> wrote:
Yes I meant 5.x actually
For PostgreSQL it's 9.x
For Oracle it's 11.x Hi devs,
In the same spirit as what we have done for Browsers (see
http://xwiki.markmail.org/thread/pn45a7qaefuplpye ) here's a proposal for Databases
since we don't have a clear strategy ATM.
I propose that by "supporting" we mean:
- issues created for these DBs in jira are not closed as won't fix and we make a best
effort to fix them
- we include these DBs in our tests (be them automated or manual)
- when we create new features or modify existing features we make a best effort to verify
that they work on the supported list of DBs
Proposal:
* HSQLDB: only support the version bundled in the standalone zip
* MySQL: We officially support the last major version, i.e. 5.0+ ATM
Do you mean all versions from the last major release cycle ? In which
case it means 5.0+, 5.1+, 5.5+ - or just the last version ? (5.5+). Thanks
-Vincent
> The way you've written it, it sound like we support just one version,
> but I don't think that's what we want.
>
> Otherwise, +1 for the general strategy, it's good to put this on paper.
>
> Jerome
>
>> * PostgreSQL: We officially support the last major version, i.e. 9.0+ ATM
>> * Oracle: We officially support the last major version, i.e. 11g ATM
>> * DB2: We don't officially support it. This means that we don't test
against it, we don't ensure that new feature work on it but if someone raises an issue
in jira and it's easy to fix (or if someone provides a patch) then we fix it.
>> * Derby: Same as DB2
>> * Microsoft SQL Server: Same as DB2
>> * H2: Same as DB2 for the moment (it would change if we decide to replace HSQLDB
by H2 one day)
>> * Others: Same as DB2
>>
>> I also propose that in the Release notes for each version of XWiki we mention the
list of DBs we have tested against and that we "support".
>>
>> Here's my +1
>>
>> Thanks
>> -Vincent