What work still needs to be done on this before we can get this officially on the roster of RFCs to be discussed? I'd like to get this moving forwards sooner rather than later.
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If you're fine with it from a MSSQL perspective, I think we're good to put more details into the Phab task and submit it for scheduling. It doesn't seem like anyone is going to start discussing any of the other questions in the various "implementation notes" sections before the real RFC.
When I do that, I'll probably present this page as one alternative and trying to use Doctrine's migration stuff as another.
Works for me! I don't particularly care which way we end up going (Doctrine would save effort in some areas and add additional effort in other areas), and either way I believe we'd need the schema representation / json thing so that we can be more friendly to the install/upgrade process (as legoktm pointed out, loading json files is a lot less fragile than partially loading extension php files).