Open or unresolved issues in other projects that are currently relevant to this one

This project depends on or makes use of several other projects in the open source ecosystem as well as certain proprietary platforms. Helping to resolve the following issues in those projects and services would be valuable for this project.

AWS

The Litter Map backend service is deployed in the AWS cloud.

• Cannot change Lambda architecture without providing a new zip file

  This would be convenient when manually testing Lambda functions, particularly when the code package can be built for either CPU architecture

• S3 bucket static website hosting requires an index document value, even if it's just one space

  This would remove the absolute necessity to specify a default "index document" object when configuring an S3 bucket to have a static website hosting interface (in a situation such as this one, however this item applies to configuring it directly in the S3 management console)

AWS SAM CLI

SAM CLI is used for deploying the serverless stack to the AWS cloud.

• #2717

  Having this solved will make it easy to move the stack template to a subdirectory within this project

• #3244

  Having this implemented will help guard against invalid stack parameter values during deployment

AWS SDK for C++

The image scaling function is implemented in C++ and uses the AWS SDK for C++ to communicate with other resources deployed in the AWS cloud.

• #1910

  This prevents the C++ build environment for the image scaling function from functioning properly without special modification

• #2089

  This issue causes the image scaling function to hang and time out instead of returning a "not found" response if the source image isn't found in the S3 bucket

AWS C++ Lambda runtime

The image scaling Lambda function is implemented on top of this runtime.

• #124

  Moving the C++ Lambda build environment docker image from Alpine 16.2 to Alpine 17 will need to have this issue resolved in the AWS C++ Lambda Runtime

• #170

  This will make it possible to choose whether building a C++ Lambda function produces a zip file or plain files

Discord

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• Requested feature: ability to merge channels

  This would enable the ability to merge the history of one channel with the history of another

• Requested feature: Support markdown hyperlinks in messages

  This would enable people to post links that don't look like raw URLs