[sakai2-tcc] draft statement on end of support for Oracle 9

[Seth Theriault]

Seth Theriault wrote:

> As discussed in Los Angeles, we should consider officially
> dropping support for Oracle 9 and lower as of Sakai 2.8.1 (and
> 2.7.2).
>
> Some reasons for this include:
>
> - Oracle 9 has been EOL'd for at least a year.
> - In at least one case, our conversion scripts use SQL directives that are only available in Oracle 10 and later
> - Institutions supporting QA servers no longer use Oracle 9
>
> I propose the following statement be adopted:
>
> "The Sakai CLE Technical Coordination Committee announces the end
> of formal support for Oracle 9.2 and earlier, starting with the
> release of the upcoming 2.8.1 and 2.7.2 maintenance releases.
>
> Oracle 9.2 reached the end of its formal "Extend Support"
> coverage in July 2010. In addition, many institutions in the
> Sakai community are using more recent versions of Oracle,
> including all of those hosting Sakai QA servers for community
> use. Finally, some of the current Oracle conversion scripts use
> features that are only available in later versions."
>
> Let's discuss this for a week or so. We probably have to confirm
> some of the above, but you get the geenral idea.

Well, it's been a week and no one had ventured an opinion or 
thought. Anyone have objections to this somewhat 
non-controversial proposal?

I will clarify that "the end of formal support" means "no longer 
assuring that future versions work on it by QA testing, etc."

Seth