[Building Sakai] Conversion scripts: Microsoft SQL Server scripts (who maintains?)

[Nate Angell]

I'd be happy to hear others say this proposed deprecation is minor
enough not to warrant Product Council scrutiny, but in an attempt to
be systematic, should the Council weigh in? The question of MS SQL
support in general seems larger than that of these specific scripts.

Unless I heard strong support from multiple institutions that plan to
maintain MS SQL support in general and these scripts in particular
going forward, I would support Anthony's suggestion to remove the
scripts from the 2.7 branch and move them to contrib.

--
Nate Angell
Client Evangelist

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 7:00 AM, Anthony Whyte <arwhyte at umich.edu> wrote:
> MS SQL conversion scripts were added to trunk in July 2009 (SAK-16610) and a copy resides in 2.7.x.  The script is in a rather anemic state when compared to the Oracle and MySQL conversion scripts.  Over the intervening months a few intrepid developers have added a script here and there but I assume that the current incompleteness of the 2.7.0/2.8.0 MS SQL conversion scripts is due to the fact that most developers are unfamiliar with SQL Server and hesitant to update its scripts and are also working under the assumption that it's not their responsibility to maintain these scripts.
>
> Is anyone overseeing the MS SQL scripts and if so do they plan to keep them up-to-date?  I do not recall that we plan to offer MS SQL Server support in Sakai 2.7 or a future 2.x release.  If no plan exists, I plan to remove the MS SQL script from the 2.7.x branch since it provides a false impression of community support.  Whether or not the scripts should be removed from trunk and relocated to contrib is I think an issue worth discussing.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Anthony
>
>
> MS SQL Server-related Jiras
>
> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-16610  (MS SQL conversion scripts added)
> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-8706 (db refactoring by G. Golden and J. Bush)
> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-7002 (add MS SQL support -- open)
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