[HacktionLab] Drupocalypse v3 Can it ever stop

[Kate Dawson]

I'm absolutely in agreement with Ekes/Clara/Naomi. 

Drupal makes a fine web application platform. 

All web app's have bugs. the fact that they are getting fixed, and fixes
communicated quickly is great. 

If users build in maintenance and support into their web app's it
would make this a non problem.

I don't think it's anyone's fault particularly. I mean who should we
blame. 

Drupal's fault all the unmaintained sites.
The web hosters, for letting people upload arbitary php to their shared
hosting accounts.
The web developer, who offered their client ongoing support
and maintenance; but accepted the job even though the client didn't purchase 
that line in the proposal.
The site owner for running out of funding, so they can't pay for
updates (which don't even *appear to do anything to the owner anyway.

I think the only way to solve the problem is to build obsolescence into
the applications. Imagine if after 6 months not all the words rendered
properly.  The images started looking distressed and faded. Perhaps
sometimes the logo would slide down from the banner if the site got more
than a certain number of hits per day. Then perhaps people will take the
maintenance of there  digital artefacts as seriously as the physical
ones.

Kate

On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 01:36:18PM +0300, naomi wrote:
> This, absolutely. I don't know about the rest of you, but I trust the
> wealth of security experience in the Drupal hive mind far more than my
> own cargo culting of half-understood notions and
> pasting-from-stack-overflow-with-crossed-fingers.
> 
> 
> On 27/04/18 13:29, ekes wrote:
> > The lovely days of being able to roll-your-own and
> > have it full of holes and no one notice are sadly long gone.
> >
> >
> 
> 
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