[Mailman-Developers] mailman 3 and mysql

[Barry Warsaw]

On May 27, 2015, at 03:39 PM, Danil Smirnov wrote:

>As I see on page
>https://pythonhosted.org/mailman/src/mailman/docs/DATABASE.html
>
>Mailman 3 should work with MySQL/MariaDB database.

Well, that page is careful to say that SQLAlchemy, the ORM layer we use, is
compatible with MySQL, but it doesn't claim that Mailman 3 actually is.
Currently we only officially support SQLite and PostgreSQL.  We test all the
time with the former, and try to keep the latter functional (that will
actually get better once our gitlab CI integration is working).

TL;DR: We want to be able to support any FLOSS database backend that
SQLAlchemy supports, but we need contributions and testing for databases other
than SQLite and PostgreSQL.

Cheers,
-Barry