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Security review for the sly/notification-pusher library
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The notification-pusher PHP library supports push notifications for APNS (iOS) and FCM (Android). Product Infrastructure prospectively intends to use it in the proposed PushNotifications MW extension, and requests security review for its inclusion in the mediawiki-vendor repo.

https://packagist.org/packages/sly/notification-pusher
https://github.com/Ph3nol/NotificationPusher

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Yep, that one's for web, this is for apps.

It would look like someone needs to do some work upstream to tidy up the install of this. Filed https://github.com/Ph3nol/NotificationPusher/issues/188

However, looking more closely, https://packagist.org/packages/zendframework/zendservice-apple-apns and https://packagist.org/packages/zendframework/zendservice-apple-apns are abandoned

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Yikes, thanks. Maybe best not to spend further time reviewing this one, then. We'll look around for a more viable PHP library.

Reedy changed the task status from Open to Stalled.Mar 3 2020, 7:13 PM

Just based on https://github.com/zendframework/ZendService_Apple_Apns and https://github.com/zendframework/ZendService_Google_Gcm alone being abandoned, I suspect expecting functionality to work longer term is going to be not so likely.. Never mind any attempts at getting maintenance, security fixes etc in.

Tagging stalled. I think you might want to have a bit of a think and a look to see if there's something else out there that fits your needs that isn't full of unsupported dependancies...

(Though hmm, FWIW, https://github.com/zendframework/ZendService_Apple_Apns shows more recent activity (March 2019) than a lot of open source push notification projects, despite being marked abandoned.)

(Though hmm, FWIW, https://github.com/zendframework/ZendService_Apple_Apns shows more recent activity (March 2019) than a lot of open source push notification projects, despite being marked abandoned.)

The github repos have been marked as readonly, which isn't a good sign. That was in December 2019

No major rush... If we need to proceed with the libraries as is, we can cross that bridge when we come to it, but we would probably need to work out some sort of maintenance plan (possibly forking?) if something happens and we need to make changes for whatever reasons

We won't be using this library.