Finance built an invoice matcher

“Microsoft probably handles that.”— Tobias, Finance

Reason:

Mainly because the bug was closed because nobody replied for 88 days. With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Tobias, an intern

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

an Electron app, for a form

Database:

filenames. The filenames are the database.

Authentication:

IP allow-list containing 0.0.0.0/0

Deployment:

running in Docker Compose on a machine named new-old

Responsible:

Petra, who inherited it from Tobias by accident

Documentation:

none, but the variable names are "pretty clear"

Security situation:

all users technically have admin permissions

Future disaster:

It will get its own budget line before it gets an owner.

Age: 3.4 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 3 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 420 days ago · original builder left 269 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 178x longer than intended, the builder has left, 2 users.