1 Topic by bemc

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Topic: Maintainability

Maintainability, this is a thing coming to my mind from time to my. It is not that I am a programmer, but personally and professionally I write some code. The point is that I have to I come back some of my scripts years after I made them, so I am exposed to code maintainability (probably there is a better word for that).
Maybe you can share something about good options, but from my experience the way to have some code tan can be executed for decades is Perl. I do not like writing in Perl, but 100% of the code I did in the last 15 years is still executable with current version. I started Python already with Python 3, but anyhow a couple of time I have to adjust things. PHP was quiet problematic for me. On the other side hand, C99 was fine, but sure one faces the challenge of finding the libraries used years ago.
I had to remember this topic again because of the php2shell vulnerability. I found many sites just closing the services because they go stuck on a version breaking compatibility.

2 Reply by throgh

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Re: Maintainability

PHP is planned to be fully removed from our web-infrastructure. To scribble down a future scenario:

1. All part based on PHP, including issue-tracker, forums and wiki, will be removed and either going only into freezing (forums) or fully replaced.
2. For the wiki we will go with a static replacment, where we use our package simiki (Python-based and only local executed).
3. For the issue-tracker we will use roundup, which is also Python-based but with lesser dependencies and not many other connections (https://www.roundup-tracker.org/).
4. The forums will be replaced with something smaller (internal name: commentary-section), foremost no JavaScript and also Python so far.

In the further reach we also want to look for replacing our outer website, package-search included, with more basic Python-elements.

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