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UK government standards say that government software should be open source by default https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/service-standard/point-12-make-new-sourc
by antxxxx 8mo ago
UK government standards say that government software should be open source by default https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/service-standard/point-12-make-new-source-code-open https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/service-standard/point-12-...
- tjwebbnorfolk 8mo agoThat is a document. Show me reality.
- pveierland 8mo agoThey have 1.5k public repositories here at least: https://github.com/orgs/alphagov/repositories?type=all https://github.com/orgs/alphagov/repositories?type=all Collection of RFCs: https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-rfcs https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-rfcs Open design system: https://design-system.service.gov.uk https://design-system.service.gov.uk
- WickyNilliams 8mo agoAnd individual departments can/do have their own GitHub org. Eg the Office of National Statistics. Some work I did ~10 years ago can be found there! https://github.com/onsdigital https://github.com/onsdigital
- Digit-Al 8mo agoNext thing we need is for them to host their own Git infra, to avoid dependency on US Github.
- tjwebbnorfolk 8mo agoLol remind me who owns Github again?
- pveierland 8mo agoWhy do you think this is substantial? The software built in these repos is not tied to GitHub. Git is decentralized and using a self-hosted instance of Gitea / Forgejo will give you a replacement for the essential parts of GitHub. GitHub is absolutely replaceable.