Core Platform Team/Initiative/Databases in Extensions/Initiative Description
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- Summary
Provide a capability to allow adding database support in an extension for databases not supported in core.
- Significance and Motivation
To remediate the regression in functionality caused by removing Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server support from core.
- Outcomes
an extension interface in core to allow alternative databases to be used with MediaWiki
- Baseline Metrics
MediaWiki 1.35
- Target Metrics
MediaWiki 1.36
- Stakeholders
- Operators of MediaWiki installations that need to deploy to an environment where they must use a database other than those supported in core (for example, Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle)
- Developers of alternative database functionality for MediaWiki who need an extension interface for their work.
- Known Dependencies/Blockers
none