Developers of Sympa

[David Verdin <address@concealed>]

Hi Soji,

Le 01/05/13 04:19, IKEDA Soji a écrit :

Hi all,

I had been fixing some bugs on SourcesUp tracker.

Yes, We saw it; I take the occasion to let you know how impressed we are before the number of bugs you fixed recently. :-)

Some bugs on 6.1.x or earlier were fixed in 6.2 branch and tracker
items are kept open.  These would be closed when they tested with
sympa-6.2b.1 or so.

OK.

Several bugs remaining open seem slightly hard to fix for me...

Sopme of them are open since a long time because fixing them requires deep changes in Sympa way of functionning.

RDBMS Dependency

As far as I see, minimum requirements of RDBMS for recent
sympa-6.2-branch are as below:

* MariaDB
  All releases.
  Aria and XtraDB storage engines will work.

Nice. I never heard of MriaDB before. It looks like a replacement for MySQL, doesn't it?

* MySQL
  4.1.1 or later (for character set support).
  MyISAM and InnoDB storage engines will work.

We already mentionned that the minimum version of MySQL is 4.1. Increasing it to 4.1.1 will not change much, so all is good.

* PostgreSQL
  7.4 or later (provides current_schema() function).

* SQLite
  3.0 or later (for "immediate" lock feature).

Great!

* Oracle, Sybase etc.
  Unknown.

You said that Sybase was hopeless. Maybe we should consider dropping it.
I'm supposed to run a survey on Sympa usage at the end of Spring. We'll see if there are any relevant usage of this SGBD.
Same for Oracle, but I think it os still widely used.
For 6.3 refactoring, we should consider usage of abstraction layers provided by CPAN, if they don't involve functionnality regression.

Thanks for all this great work on Sympa!

Cheers,

David

Regards,

--- Soji

--
A bug in Sympa? Quick! To the bug tracker!

David Verdin Infrastructure pour les Services Informatiques
Tél : +33 2 23 23 69 71 Fax : +33 2 23 23 71 21   www.renater.fr	RENATER 263 Avenue du Gal Leclerc 35042 Rennes Cedex

Attachment: smime.p7s
Description: Signature cryptographique S/MIME