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What usually happens is that it doesn't get released at all. It isn't worth the effort. I've got tons of code I've written over the years that, if I could just
by GlenTheMachine 8y ago
What usually happens is that it doesn't get released at all. It isn't worth the effort.
I've got tons of code I've written over the years that, if I could just throw it onto github, I would. But since it would take me six weeks of pain, I don't. Some of that code I'm kind of proud of, or was at the time I wrote it, anyway. I wrote an rviz app a decade before ROS took off.
- lowercased 8y agoWould there be some way of just automatically releasing everything in a git repo after X days (30? 60? 90?) unless some action is taken? Commit/push like normal, and some other process pushes to a public repo after X days, but anyone can review and block in the meantime for security reasons when needed?
- GlenTheMachine 8y agoNo. “Automatic release” is a contradiction in terms. It could happen, but it would take something like the Secretary of Defense ordering it. Or a White House directive. The folks at my level, or at any level I can actually talk to, don't have the authority. The thing is, they aren't making these policies and procedures up just to be dense. There are real, hard and fast laws and department-wide policies that require the system to look the way it does.
- Wowfunhappy 8y agoBut if someone files a Freedom of Information requests, that forces the process into motion, right? (If there were more people filing request, I wonder if the internal procedure would be made less painful out of necessity...)
- anticensor 8y agoAnd you would get your information request rejected due to unreasonable efforts required to satisfy. FOI is meant for information that can legally be published with reasonable effort, but not yet available.