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... And this is why you want to discontinue products and services your engineers can't be motivated to maintain. Amazing. This should scare anyone who has ever
by numair 13y ago
... And this is why you want to discontinue products and services your engineers can't be motivated to maintain. Amazing.
This should scare anyone who has ever left an old side project running; I could see a lot of companies doing a product/service portfolio review based on this as a case study.
- spindritf 13y agoOr just move it to some cheap VPS where it cannot damage other services or your infrastructure.
- adaml_623 13y agoOr your reputation or your ethical and possibly legal duty to protect your clients?
- cookiecaper 13y agoMost of the time projects are not neatly encapsulated like that.
- SixSigma 13y agoShouldn't they be there in the first place? Even better, host on your competitor's servers.
- dannypgh 13y agoReputation is a form of infrastructure.
- skj 13y agoBut I heard that discontinuing unstaffed projects was evil?
- njharman 13y agoOr have policy of replying with humor and bounties. So the rest of the world happily finds your vulnerabilities for you. Works for small, old, etc products as the value of breech will probably be less than value of bounty + cred.
- pjc50 13y agoOn that subject, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7572414 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7572414
- iffycan 13y agoI recently deleted a decade old CGI script called "db" that would execute arbitrary database queries for you. No one remembered it was there.
- skybrian 13y agoI'm quite happy with App Engine for unmaintained side projects. Very few upgrades are needed and your crufty code is quite well encapsulated. For something like the heartbleed bug there's nothing to do.