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Create infrastructure for testing external Dialect contributions

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Description

We are not in a position to support all the different databases out there.
But of course, we still want people to enable to use these databases.
Therefore we should create infrastructure that allows external contributors to run integration tests for their dialects, that give them good confidence that stuff actually works.

This infrastructure might also host a list of externally provided dialects.

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  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

The issue does not name files, tests, or entry points. Start by locating the existing dialect integration-test setup and determine how an external contributor could run it; done means external dialect contributors can obtain meaningful integration-test confidence, with an externally provided dialect list if that remains in scope.

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Assessment

Tech stack
java, spring
Domain
databases, developer-experience, testing-qa
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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