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by estaseuropano 1550 days ago
I agree in principle but not everything is useful for the public, and making code FOSS is not just a matter of uploading it somewhere - this requires documentation, regular updates, clear assignation of responsibility, etc. You'd be surprised by how strapped for resources even powerful government bureaucracies can be - committing time to foss-ing is time not spent on operational needs.

So I would argue: open source anything that can be expected to have wider reuse or transparency benefits. But don't just spam any code produced to the public.

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How about developing in public? See for example login.gov, the source code is on GitHub and you can see their commits and issue board in real time.