I'm a bit confused here, cause updated task description seems to collide (again) with https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113831

In T191231#5229058, @Ladsgroup wrote:

To recap. I suggest these two:

• Drop official support for Oracle and MSSQL

In T191231#5003648, @daniel wrote:

In T191231#5002737, @Legoktm wrote:

In T191231#5000704, @daniel wrote:

But discussion of this argument with regards to things other than databases is off topic here.

That makes no sense, why is it off topic? I don't think it's very fair for you to make a broad claim saying that we should remove support for non-free software in core that CI doesn't test and then respond to a counter-argument with "that's off topic".

I pointed out a rabbit hole, and suggested we avoid going down it right here and now. I'm happy to discuss it at some other place and time, I didn't mean to shut you down.

My concern here is that, if we don't have CI for the proprietary databases, we have no way to make sure that we don't break support for them (even more) when implementing this proposal.

In T191231#4677626, @Anomie wrote:

I don't know who might be able to make an exception to that policy or what would be required to convince them to do so. Following up on that would be outside the scope of this RFC.

My starting work:

Somebody is working on..? I want to collaborate...! Thanks a lot.