We have some good news to share. The Stripe donation system, which some of you may have noticed has been unavailable for a while, is now fully functional again.
It took a bit of digging, but after a thorough investigation, kolie was able to isolate the problem and has successfully deployed a fix. A huge thank you is owed to him for his persistence in resolving this.
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(Score: 4, Informative) by janrinok on Wednesday July 02, @05:06AM (2 children)
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And of course a huge "thank-you" to kolie...
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(Score: 4, Informative) by kolie on Wednesday July 02, @05:09AM (1 child)
Group effort - thank you janrinok for your massive contribution to the site.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday July 02, @08:41PM
I was just about to say something similar, but thank you all.
Will see if i can scrape some Rubles together!
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Wednesday July 02, @10:31AM (3 children)
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 02, @04:12PM (1 child)
Wow! So professional and all. :p
(Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Wednesday July 02, @08:13PM
(Score: 3, Informative) by cmdrklarg on Wednesday July 02, @06:09PM
Thanks for all the work!
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(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday July 02, @06:27PM (1 child)
Was is a cool problem or a boring problem? People always like hearing cool bug reports. Boring problems less so. If it was a boring problem no need to mention details. If it was a cool problem, well, SN being as it is, reading cool bug reports is always interesting.
IIRC WRT stripe, there's the usual API key challenges which are pretty universal and boring across any API, although they had/have a state machine for payment request state that seems to confuse people. I see other people have all kinds of problems mixing up test and production mode, I did not, but this seems to be a thing online. I know juuuust enough stripe to be dangerous and to know that I don't want to mess with that anymore.
Oh and thanks for the efforts, of course.
(Score: 4, Informative) by kolie on Wednesday July 02, @06:39PM
Boring red tape with getting stripe access setup with the new soylent phoenix entity, delegating that, then actually figuring out the jobs to turn in rehash to get it done.
The dockerfile was missing some coan modules needed as well, those are now built and included.
(Score: 2) by oregonjohn on Wednesday July 02, @06:38PM
Amazing work everyone involved. Glad it was a successful team effort.