can't log into ernest

[willkg]

Technically, this is "can't log into bugzilla" because ernest just turns around and tries to log you into bugzilla.

What's going on is that Bugzilla has changed at some point and now has a csrf-like thing but the token is generated in JS. That's fine, except we can't pick it up easily and thus all auth attempts kick up an HTTP 401.

It's possible we could fix this, but it's probably a lot more research work which will result in some brittle implementation which sucks. I don't think that's worth it.

We could rewrite ernest to move auth to the client side rather than the server side. That might work, but that's a lot of work.

I'm hoping that edwin will be usable soon. When that happens, I vote we just deprecate ernest. Given that, I don't think this is worth spending time on.