Request for assistance/advice: TikiWiki CMS/Groupware will have to drop PostgreSQL support soon unless a maintainer steps up
От | Marc Laporte |
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Тема | Request for assistance/advice: TikiWiki CMS/Groupware will have to drop PostgreSQL support soon unless a maintainer steps up |
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Msg-id | 8ae99f050906072129mdfc840bk423538844d23eaba@mail.gmail.com обсуждение исходный текст |
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Re: Request for assistance/advice: TikiWiki CMS/Groupware
will have to drop PostgreSQL support soon unless a maintainer steps up
(Santiago Zarate <santiago@zarate.net.ve>)
Re: Request for assistance/advice: TikiWiki CMS/Groupware will have to drop PostgreSQL support soon unless a maintainer steps up (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>) Re: Request for assistance/advice: TikiWiki CMS/Groupware will have to drop PostgreSQL support soon unless a maintainer steps up (Jonathan Fuerth <fuerth@sqlpower.ca>) |
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Hello to the PostgreSQL community! I asked someone in the PostgreSQL community and he wrote: "There have been past conversations on the advocacy's mailing list discussing the lack of implementation of web based front-ends using PostgreSQL. You could post a request for help on the advocacy mail list." This is a request for assistance/advice. Please point me to the right people/place if this is the wrong place. I am a project admin for TikiWiki CMS/Groupware. "TikiWiki CMS/Groupware is a full-featured, web-based, multilingual, tightly integrated, all-in-one Wiki+CMS+Groupware, Free Source Software (GNU/LGPL), using PHP, ADOdb, Zend Framework, jQuery and Smarty. It is actively developed by a very large international community and is translated in over 35 languages. TikiWiki can be used to create all sorts of Web applications, sites, portals, knowledge base, intranets, and extranets." A few stats to give an idea of the scope of the project * Over 1 million lines of code. * 220+ developers directly committing to the core, with countless other people helping with support, documentation, testing, etc. * 1000+ pages of documentation. * A new code commit every 2 hours (average of last 5 years) * 16 000+ registered users on tikiwiki.org * 700 000+ downloads Also: http://info.tikiwiki.org/Fact+Sheet http://support.mozilla.com/ (10 million page views per week) and wiki.kde.org are powered by Tiki Tiki uses a database abstraction layer so it can be used with many databases (PostgreSQL, Oracle, Sybase, SQLite) in addition to MYSQL. However, support for anything but MySQL has become more & more problematic. It's not strictly a chicken & egg problem because Tiki once worked with non-MYSQL. However, without maintainers, it was lost over time. So we have come to a difficult decision. In about 50 days, database independence will be dropped in Tiki unless a maintainer steps up. So Tiki will become officially MySQL-only. Why? -------- We would love to support many databases, especially PostgreSQL because it's an open source & community-managed project like Tiki. There are many reasons why we would want database independence and it's no use listing them here because it's not that we don't want. It's that we don't have the resources to do so. Tiki is a huge application and we would need active devs that use/maintain Tikis on other databases. However, since we have no maintainer, we have been for a long time now in a "Worst of both worlds" situation. *Extra code to maintain *Bugs that never get fixed *People that are disappointed (feeling it's "false-advertising") *Not taking full advantage of MySQL advanced features More information here: http://dev.tikiwiki.org/Database+independence This is very disappointing to me because I have always wanted Tiki to be as universal as possible. So I don't want to give up on this goal without a fight. Which is why I am writing to you today. I look forward to any advice or help you may provide. Best regards, -- Marc Laporte http://MarcLaporte.com http://TikiWiki.org/MarcLaporte
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