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by antipaul 1410 days ago
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

Project board: https://github.com/orgs/alphagov/projects/4

Requests for comment: https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-rfcs

Gov.uk infrastructure as code (WIP): https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-infrastructure

“The GDS way”: How they work, tech stack, processes, etc 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-...

Full GitHub org with >1,500 repos: https://github.com/alphagov
3 comments
robin_reala 1410 days 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-c...

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thfuran 1410 days 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.

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antipaul 1410 days ago
Yea my bad! I mean that "an unreasonably large amount of their work is publicly available."
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thfuran 1409 days 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?
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naniwaduni 1409 days 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!

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davidgerard 1410 days 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

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