Expected behavior

I've been trying to use the luaOTA example from lua_examples to do deployment.
Expected behaviour is thus: Not crashing.
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Actual behavior

Code immediately panics when entering _init.lua with

Starting Provision Checks

PANIC: unprotected error in call to Lua API (luaOTA/_doTick.lua:1: attempt to index global 'self' (a nil value))

Test code

MCVE is simply uploading the code in luaOTA (minus the server component) to the ESP

NodeMCU version

master
commit: 310faf7

Hardware

NodeMCU board Ver. 0.1 (?)