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good to see nasa keeping it open - kinda wish theyd do this more often tbh. you think old habits or just red tape stop em from going all in?
by gitroom 1y ago
good to see nasa keeping it open - kinda wish theyd do this more often tbh. you think old habits or just red tape stop em from going all in?
- jamesmontalvo3 1y agoJust to be clear this is one center’s first open source release. There’s open source from other centers at https://github.com/nasa https://github.com/nasa and https://code.nasa.gov/ https://code.nasa.gov/
- d42muna 1y agoRed tape. So much red tape. It can take literally years to get permission to release code as open source within NASA. It's not the scientists - they want to release their code. It's the lawyers.
- jamesmontalvo3 1y agoConcur that it takes time (it took 2.5-3 years for me to open source github/nasa/coda), but in my experience at JSC it wasn’t red tape, but a lack of staffing in the export office. It seems reasonable to me that some amount of review be performed before something can be open sourced, and the effort wasn’t too much on my end. It just took a long time.
- dima55 1y agoI release my work at JPL routinely. The process has been streamlined a LOT in the last few years, and now it usually takes on the order of a week or so.
- fshafique 1y agoI'm sure there's a joke here about the men in black wanting to slowly release all the reverse-engineered UFO operating system code.