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

[Anthony Whyte]

+1 

This says it all:

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


On Jul 14, 2011, at 6:45 PM, Matthew Jones wrote:

> 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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