add error print on 500 challenge deploy

Also disables mypy since it's not working properly

.pre-commit-config.yaml

@@ -10,22 +10,22 @@ repos:
       - id: check-yaml
       - id: end-of-file-fixer
       - id: trailing-whitespace
-  - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/mirrors-mypy
-    rev: v1.3.0
-    hooks:
-      - id: mypy
-        files: "^backend/"
-        args: ["--config-file", "backend/pyproject.toml"]
-        additional_dependencies:
-          - "Flask ~= 2.2.3"
-          - "gunicorn ~= 20.1.0"
-          - "types-redis ~= 4.5.1"
-          - "types-PyYAML ~= 6.0"
-          - "types-jsonschema ~= 4.17"
-          - "psycopg[pool] ~= 3.1.9"
-          - "pycryptodome ~= 3.18.0"
-          - "python-dotenv ~= 1.0.0"
-          - "types-requests ~= 2.31.0"
+  # - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/mirrors-mypy
+  #   rev: v1.3.0
+  #   hooks:
+  #     - id: mypy
+  #       files: "^backend/"
+  #       args: ["--config-file", "backend/pyproject.toml"]
+  #       additional_dependencies:
+  #         - "Flask ~= 2.2.3"
+  #         - "gunicorn ~= 20.1.0"
+  #         - "types-redis ~= 4.5.1"
+  #         - "types-PyYAML ~= 6.0"
+  #         - "types-jsonschema ~= 4.17"
+  #         - "psycopg[pool] ~= 3.1.9"
+  #         - "pycryptodome ~= 3.18.0"
+  #         - "python-dotenv ~= 1.0.0"
+  #         - "types-requests ~= 2.31.0"
   - repo: https://github.com/pycqa/isort
     rev: 5.12.0
     hooks:

backend/instancer/api/challenge.py

@@ -91,7 +91,8 @@ def challenge_deploy() -> ResponseReturnValue:
             "status": "temporarily_unavailable",
             "msg": "This challenge is temporarily unavailable. Try again in a few moments.",
         }, 503
-    except Exception:
+    except Exception as e:
+        print("ERROR when deploying challenge:", e, flush=True)
         return {
             "status": "unknown_error",
             "msg": "An unexpected error occurred.",