By: Tools over Content | Government Digital Service
[...] talked before about various aspects of how we build software at GDS, and especially for GOV.UK, but I’d like to take a step back and about one of our [...]
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[...] some pieces we can’t share in public yet, but in the coming months we’ll be working on opening up whatever we [...]
View ArticleBy: John Fraser
We're building a new dev team here at Registers of Scotland. (Thanks for this resource, which gives us good ideas.) We would like to use, develop - and therefore contribute - open source wherever...
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[…] point where I have perhaps exaggerated: as James Stewart, one of GDS’s technical architects, points out, what GDS does is actually “coding in the open”, rather than “open source” […]
View ArticleBy: Kevin Mitnick
How are security concerns met where open source software isn't widely distributed and subject to the 'thousand eyes' argument? How is provenance and assurance of the software used gleaned?
View ArticleBy: MarkDalgarno (@MarkDalgarno)
Wondering why you chose the MIT License rather than the Open Government License.
View ArticleBy: James Stewart
In reply to MarkDalgarno (@MarkDalgarno). MIT felt more appropriate as a license for code as it's designed for that purpose. It's also more widely recognised in the software world and so makes it...
View ArticleBy: James Stewart
In reply to Kevin Mitnick. Hi Kevin - sorry for the exceedingly delayed response. Where software isn't widely distributed the onus is very much on our development team to do due diligence, reviewing...
View ArticleBy: Sam Jewell
Hi Guys Primarily I'm hoping to fork the "register to vote" pages for a personal project where we are designing a simple form to be used by hospitals for surveys. Could you tell me which repo I should...
View ArticleBy: Tim Needham
Hi, We're a UK Fire Service that's been inspired by the work of GDS, so-much-so our next project is to be built in the open on Github. We're currently at the stage of considering what license to use......
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