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

[Matthew Jones]

As of 2 weeks ago umich is on 11g and we won't even have 10g available much
longer as that is also EOL, so I'm + 1 (g).
On Jul 14, 2011 6:21 PM, "Seth Theriault" <slt at columbia.edu> wrote:
> 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
>
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