On 2022-06-25 19:34, Kevin O'Brien wrote:
Maybe if you release it someone will clean it up. That seems like a good outcome.
Or someone would use an exploit to take advantage of the site and put other sites on the server at risk.
The code is almost 17 years old and any effort to fix it would be massive, and require a complete rewrite.
Even if done, we would still leave a site that has requires a database query to generate each page. This is not efficient and is costly in terms of resources to our hosting platform.
I have belonged to several organizations where we had a rule that if you complained about something an unpaid volunteer did you were implicitly offering to take it over.
I literally am the unpaid volunteer who volunteered to take it over, and have been doing so for the last 10 years. So I'm complaining about it and I am also volunteering to write and maintain something better.
This is not some precious piece of code that defines an age. It's a piece of duct taped php that takes fields from a database and turns it into HTML. Fine for it's time but, the world has moved on.
Generating a static site from the database is ideal as a static html page is very difficult to hack, and means we can easily mirror it to for example hackerpublicradio.ahuka.com
The fact that our content changes but once a day makes the approach of generating static pages ideal.
With the raw SQL, anyone that wants to help can funnel their energy into generating a working site for us.
The sooner we move off this LAMP stack, the sooner we can stop using it, and the sooner there is no problem in releasing it for all to see.
-- Regards, Ken Fallon (PA7KEN,G5KEN) https://kenfallon.com https://hackerpublicradio.org/hosts/ken_fallon _______________________________________________ Hpr mailing list [email protected] http://hackerpublicradio.org/mailman/listinfo/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org
