MS SQL Server (experimental) -> Why?

[timmi]

Hi guys!

We want to upgrade to 1.2.0 when it becomes final (already building a working mantis with 1.2.0rc2 to go live asap).

Our goal: Use MS SQL Server (2005).

We're wondering why it is still in an "(experimental)" state (admin/install.php), can anybody tell me why?

From a sentence of the homepage

MantisBT is a free popular web-based bugtracking system (feature list). It is written in the PHP scripting language and works with MySQL, MS SQL, and PostgreSQL databases and a webserver.

I would assume that MS SQL is fully supported...

Thanks for any help!


timmi

[atrol]

I had a look at the tracker for all open issues with category "db mssql"
If this reflects the reality, I would agree that this is experimental.
There are too much issues with high severities.

[timmi]

I don't think, that it represents the reality, if you filter by "db mysql", you will find just 10 issues less, but MySQL is stable, I think.

[atrol]

I also don't think this can be the reality, because this would be unusable, not experimental.

The number of open bugs alone is not an indicator for usable or not.
Having 0 open issues means that no one is using your software,
having 1 issue with high severity can stop the show,
having 100 issues with moaning users about bad performance when uploading a 1GB attachment is a sign that you are on the right way

The current version of MantisBT uses a newer version of ADODB and there are new drivers from Microsoft for PHP, ...
So maybe some of the bugs are gone, but no one checked this and closed the issues in the tracker.

If you go on using MS SQL you could help the MantisBT team by checking whether the open issues still exist or not. Provide this information by adding a note in the tracker.

[timmi]

I'm already fighting with MS SQL...

I got the exact same issue as here described within this bug:

http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=10742

I hope somebody answers or I could find a solution for this problem.