On: Patch the Planet: global response coordination as agents uncover vulnerabilities

[post-it]

Unless the magical code generation machine can update packages that are no longer being updated, this isn't really a problem that can be solved with magical code generation.

[Kwpolska → post-it]

The slop machine can backport the fix to PHP 5, or make your code compatible with PHP 8.

[post-it → Kwpolska]

Yes but it can't actually upgrade and release packages for discontinued distro release streams, that's a human problem.

[andix → Kwpolska]

Backporting the fix is much lower effort in total. It's just a few dozen minor PHP releases that are affected, but millions of websites still running on older PHP versions.

[alper → Kwpolska]

The slop machine can then also port your stuff to Go and you don't worry about this stuff as much anymore.