R&D built a release readiness checklist

“It has a padlock icon.”— Kevin, R&D

Reason:

Officially because the mandatory field is documented as optional. With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Kevin, a working student

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Python, Flask and no requirements.txt

Database:

an SQLite file called data.db

Authentication:

permissions are managed by copying another user's account

Deployment:

running in Docker, but the Dockerfile is missing

Responsible:

a former employee still helping occasionally

Documentation:

a Confluence page owned by Chen, who left

Security situation:

the database is reachable from the public internet

Future disaster:

It will get backups after the first data loss.

Age: 1.9 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 5 departments depend on it, €82k per year, 55 users.