[sakai-core-team] Documentation : database and older Sakai releases

[Neal Caidin]

Sounds good. I think that ties off the database recommendations well. 
Thanks! :-)

Now looking for feedback on

"With the advent of the Sakai 10 series, official Community support for 
Sakai 2.8 ceases and 2.9 is deprecated. Organizations running Sakai 2.9 
and earlier versions are strongly encouraged to upgrade to Sakai 10 in 
order to take advantage of numerous improvements and continued 
maintenance and support. Sakai 2.9 will continue to receive critical 
security patches and selective fixes. "


> Sam Ottenhoff <mailto:ottenhoff at longsight.com>
> June 18, 2014 at 9:34 AM
>
>     For database choices the two big questions are 1) MySql 5.5 and
>     later? or should we mention support for 5.1? That was lightly
>     debated on an earlier thread. 
>
>
>
> Is this a good place to remind people that recent versions of MySQL 
> offer better performance?  I'm not so sure.  Sakai 10 works just fine 
> on MySQL 5.1+ but as others have pointed out, you're a bit crazy if 
> you are choosing 5.1 for a brand-new installation.

>     2) We have been saying that Sakai supports MySql and Oracle, which
>     is true, however the way I worded the statement below indicates a
>     preference for MySql. That *seems* to be true, but will it give
>     Oracle institutions pause to see that? 
>
>
> The Oracle text seems fine except the wording of "Oracle 12c has been 
> known to be used".  There are known installations of Sakai on Oracle 
> 10g, 11g, and 12c.

> Neal Caidin <mailto:neal.caidin at apereo.org>
> June 18, 2014 at 8:24 AM
> That wasn't worded very well. I meant to say, here are a proposed 
> changes to blurbs. Please see below.
>
> The key points on these blurbs is that instead of saying we are 
> supporting the most recent two releases, we are saying that we are 
> fully supporting the most recent release (soon to be Sakai 10) only.  
> I think that reflects closer to reality, but it is not what we have 
> been saying, I think.
>
> For database choices the two big questions are 1) MySql 5.5 and later? 
> or should we mention support for 5.1? That was lightly debated on an 
> earlier thread. 2) We have been saying that Sakai supports MySql and 
> Oracle, which is true, however the way I worded the statement below 
> indicates a preference for MySql. That *seems* to be true, but will it 
> give Oracle institutions pause to see that?  (asking which database 
> institutions are using might also be a good question addition for our 
> yearly Sakai upgrade survey.)
>
> Thanks,
> Neal
>
>
> Neal Caidin <mailto:neal.caidin at apereo.org>
> June 17, 2014 at 1:52 PM
> Thinking of changing these blurbs:
>
> Older Sakai releases
> With the advent of the Sakai 10 series, official Community support for 
> Sakai 2.8 ceases and 2.9 is deprecated. Organizations running Sakai 
> 2.9 and earlier versions are strongly encouraged to upgrade to Sakai 
> 10 in order to take advantage of numerous improvements and continued 
> maintenance and support. Sakai 2.9 will continue to receive critical 
> security patches and selective fixes.
>
> Database choices
> Sakai production installations typically run MySQL 5.5 or later. 
> Oracle 10g/11g is the next most popular choice and as of Sakai 10, 
> Oracle 12c has been known to be used.
>
> What do you think?
>

-- 
Neal Caidin
Sakai Community Coordinator
Apereo Foundation
neal.caidin at apereo.org
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