Removing Oracle Support

[Kip Hampton]

On 8/14/10 3:25 AM, Frédéric Buclin wrote:

>
> I think the technical aspect is important to us. As long as xiaoou, or
> any new contributor with the required skills to fix the Oracle driver,
> fixes bugs so that it still works fine with Bugzilla, there is no reason
> to drop this driver. From the questions I can read on IRC and the bugs
> filed on bmo, there are clearly some installations using Bugzilla with
> Oracle. I don't know how much, I don't know if they were already using
> Bugzilla before we supported it or if they moved to Bugzilla because it
> now supports Oracle, but the fact is that the Bugzilla + Oracle
> combination exists.

And I think that is the key consideration. As despicable as Oracle's 
behavior is, IMO, the impact of dropping support for from Bugzilla would 
fall most heavily on Bugzilla users, not on Oracle.

If the goal is to send a message and apply pressure to Oracle to get 
them to do the right thing then I suggest doing just that: a public 
written statement (from the Mozilla foundation? Bugzilla lead?) along 
the lines of "happy to have supported Oracle's database in the past but 
strongly disagree and urge them to reverse course" etc, would achieve 
the same effect without the risk of making Oracle-running Bugzilla users 
pay the price.

Just my 0.02 USD (1967 dollars, adjusted for inflation)

-kip