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This team is really something when it comes to transparency. For a government entity, an unreasonably large amount of their work is on GitHub. Examples: Front

This team is really something when it comes to transparency. For a government entity, an unreasonably large amount of their work is on GitHub. Examples: Front end design system: https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-frontend https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-frontend Project board: https://github.com/orgs/alphagov/projects/4 https://github.com/orgs/alphagov/projects/4 Requests for comment: https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-rfcs https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-rfcs Gov.uk infrastructure as code (WIP): https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-infrastructure https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-infrastructure “The GDS way”: How they work, tech stack, processes, etc https://github.com/alphagov/gds-way https://github.com/alphagov/gds-way “Terraform modules for on-boarding with Cyber Security services eg define the IAM SecurityAudit role”: https://github.com/alphagov/cyber-security-shared-terraform-modules https://github.com/alphagov/cyber-security-shared-terraform-... Full GitHub org with >1,500 repos: https://github.com/alphagov https://github.com/alphagov

robin_reala 4y ago
Pretty much everything is on Github: it’s a requirement to be open unless you have an extremely good reason to be closed.[1] The only closed source project I ever worked with there was fraud detection for identity verification. [1] https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/technology/making-source-code-open-and-reusable https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/technology/making-source-c...
thfuran 4y ago
>For a government entity, an unreasonably large amount of their work is on GitHub. Perhaps GitHub shouldn't be the venue, but I think you have that backwards. Most government entities share unreasonably little of their code.
- antipaul 4y ago
  Yea my bad! I mean that "an unreasonably large amount of their work is publicly available."
  - thfuran 4y ago
    Yes, and I'm saying that that is impossible because it's reasonable for all their work to be publicly available and not reasonable for little of their work to be publicly available. Why should the publicly funded work not be made publicly available?
  - naniwaduni 4y ago
    I'd say it's quite reasonable that it's publicly available, and even that it's unreasonable that other governments' works aren't as much publicly available. But it is surprising to see!
davidgerard 4y ago
and the Open Goverment Licence was specifically designed to be compatible both ways with CC-by. (why not just use CC-by? Because someone had legal questions about some of the fine details. But the practical effects are as if they just did.) in fact, its use is directly recommended where reasonable and feasible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Government_Licence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Government_Licence

robin_reala 4y ago

Pretty much everything is on Github: it’s a requirement to be open unless you have an extremely good reason to be closed.[1] The only closed source project I ever worked with there was fraud detection for identity verification. [1] https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/technology/making-source-code-open-and-reusable https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/technology/making-source-c...

thfuran 4y ago

>For a government entity, an unreasonably large amount of their work is on GitHub. Perhaps GitHub shouldn't be the venue, but I think you have that backwards. Most government entities share unreasonably little of their code.

antipaul 4y ago
Yea my bad! I mean that "an unreasonably large amount of their work is publicly available."
- thfuran 4y ago
  Yes, and I'm saying that that is impossible because it's reasonable for all their work to be publicly available and not reasonable for little of their work to be publicly available. Why should the publicly funded work not be made publicly available?
- naniwaduni 4y ago
  I'd say it's quite reasonable that it's publicly available, and even that it's unreasonable that other governments' works aren't as much publicly available. But it is surprising to see!

davidgerard 4y ago

and the Open Goverment Licence was specifically designed to be compatible both ways with CC-by. (why not just use CC-by? Because someone had legal questions about some of the fine details. But the practical effects are as if they just did.) in fact, its use is directly recommended where reasonable and feasible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Government_Licence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Government_Licence