Wait, they expect people to start installing Linux by creating a Google or Discord account? I have to read this article now, because the title and subtitle are hinting at this.

Ok damn, what a misleading name!

The Ubuntu ISO Tracker has long been used by the Ubuntu QA team and the community for tracking the Ubuntu Linux ISOs and their pass/fail results and other build/testing related information

It's an ISO test result tracker.

Have been in the exact same situation. Had a code base written in PHP that needed porting to Python. i'm still porting it.

The lesson here is maybe you gotta hold on to what you have and then work on a replacement without throwing away the golden goose.

Was managing a 3,500 person network.

But for now the immediate approach is to use a temporary shared spreadsheet/dashboard, Ubuntu release management maintaining a testing coordination tread on Discourse, and then to eventually have new tooling in place.

Temporary is never temporary. From a reliability and maintenance point of view, I totally get it but this temporary solution also seems terrible.