Read the GitHub bug. We're talking about missions started decades ago. There is no budget and no staff to maintain the existing code, much less rewrite parts

Read the GitHub bug. We're talking about missions started decades ago. There is no budget and no staff to maintain the existing code, much less rewrite parts of it. But because some wonk thousands of miles away in Washington made a "HTTPS only from now on!" proclamation, all these existing projects which are working fine should be canceled? Or the staff should put in hours of unpaid overtime to learn and rewrite and test decades-old codebases? How about you volunteer to do some of that work, and then you can criticize "priorities" and "people trying to do technical things and doing them poorly."