30 Nov
2021
30 Nov
'21
8:36 p.m.
Sudo-humans is currently using nodejs 0.10.29, which was released
2014-06-09. This version was already pretty decrepit when I installed
the server a year later: debian jessie, which was brand new in 2015,
is now far past EOL, and cannot be updated. I doubt that anybody has
even bothered to compile nodejs 0.10.x for newer OS versions.
Nodesource goes back to 12.x (released 2019). So our options are:
* do nothing, continue running outdated, unmaintainable server forever
* migrate everything but sudo-humans, leave it running at
humans.sudoroom.org, pay 2 VPS bills indefinitely
* spend time and energy dockerizing the whole mess to run sandboxed on
the new server
* spend time and energy figuring out how to compile nodejs 0.10.x for
newer debian
* fix sudo-humans
What's the plan, folks? A balloon payment of tech debt is now past due.
On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 8:43 PM Charles Hughes <c.hughes87(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I tried looking into upgrading the dependencies of sudo-humans a while ago and it is not
arbitrary to do unfortunately.
On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 12:27 PM Yardena Cohen <yardenack(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Everything's been migrated to the new server and ready to change DNS
> except we're waiting on mailman (2->3 migration) and sudohumans (only
> works with ancient nodejs). I've got mailman covered, but nodejs
> experts, please help! I could probably figure it out but I'd rather
> not.
>
> Email me for login info, thanks.
>
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 12:52 AM Jake <jake(a)spaz.org> wrote:
> >
> > I heard we need help migrating the server to its new instance?
> >
> > apparently there are major issues of node upgrade which are going to affect
> > sudo-humans, which is important because that's how we accept payment from
> > everyone?
> >
> > who is available to help?
> >
> > thank you
> > -jake
> >
> > On Fri, 19 Nov 2021, Yardena Cohen wrote:
> >
> > > I know. I'll be migrating the server. I was waiting til the last
> > > second to be polite...
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 7:53 PM danarauz(a)gmail.com
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