Sorry, I won’t accept any pull request that changes the database. This project is already too hard for me to lead given the little time I have left for it, and changing the database cannot make that problem any better.
The only changes I’m likely to consider this year are security/accessibility fixes and support for the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04.
From my perspective, anyone is completely welcome to fork the project, and even encouraged. It’s very unlikely at this point that we’ll ever support an Ubuntu version beyond 26.04 (and getting just to 26.04 may be difficult/risky).