Information Security built an internal wiki with 11 pages

“It's read-only. Mostly.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Mainly because the last 10% is authentication, billing and everything else. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 88 days ago.

Built by:

Katrin, an intern

Build time:

4 hours 41 minutes

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

a nightly CSV export emailed to Sarah

Authentication:

the audit log is disabled because it filled the disk

Deployment:

running on a development server labelled DO NOT RESTART

Responsible:

an intern whose contract ended in May

Documentation:

a README that begins with "temporary notes"

Security situation:

the security review consisted of Bastian saying "looks fine"

Future disaster:

It will stop working after someone renames a column.

Age: 4.4 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 420 days ago · original builder left 1235 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €278k per year, 3 departments depend on it, alive 27x longer than intended.