Code-gov: A collection point for all Code.gov repositories

Shared this why?

Seems a more accurate source, tho harder to search through: https://code.gov/agencies

westurner · 2 years ago

There are code.json generators and a scraper written in Python:

GSA/code-gov//docs/code_json_generators.md > "Code.gov Metadata Schema 2.0.0 Requirements" https://github.com/GSA/code-gov/blob/master/docs/code_json_g...

code.gov/agency-compliance/compliance/procurement: https://code.gov/agency-compliance/compliance/procurement

Looks like there's a JSON-LD @context for /data.json now: https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/metadata-resources/

Prometheus-like data pull system might've been better for COVID reporting w/ e.g. the hastily-added CDCPMDRecord and SpecialAnnouncement.

Prometheus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_(software)

CDCPMDRecord: https://schema.org/CDCPMDRecord

westurner · 2 years ago

"git-scraping" https://www.google.com/search?q=git+scraping

gh topic: git-scraping: https://github.com/topics/git-scraping

prepend · 2 years ago

That page also hasn’t been updated in years.

GSA used to maintain a combined catalog that was refreshed a few times per year and searchable.

I’m also not sure if there’s still a requirement for agencies to keep their own code.json up to date. It’s hard to tell when each department refreshes, but it seems like HHS hasn’t updated theirs since March of 2022.

westurner · 2 years ago

Do people like incentives or penalties?

What incentive could there be to keep reusable [federal] open source software inventoried?

theogravity · 2 years ago

Dead repo? Looks like it hasn't been updated in over 3 years. There's a few PRs that are pretty old that haven't been merged either.

pakyr · 2 years ago

They still have a ton of active repos[0], but yeah, this one seems dead; all of the repos it links to in the readme are archived or deleted.

[0]https://github.com/GSA

keithalewis · 2 years ago

Let's put something on GitHub to distract some computer nerds.

ChrisArchitect · 2 years ago

andychase · 2 years ago

At EPA we use this to keep this up to date but it just scrapes our GitHub:

https://github.com/USEPA/code-json-generator

This code.gov initative comes from Obama-era push to use/release open source, but the attention now seems to be on data (data.gov) and ai (ai.gov)

mistrial9 · 2 years ago

this is a preview of "pass laws on gov and civilian software reporting, this is how we (gov) do it" ?

chilling, dysfunctional.. almost mocks the daily and weekly maintenance that is rigorously required in so many competent organizations.

combined with new pending legislation, quite the stark warning IMHO

What pending legislation?

I wish I could list it all .. among people I talk to, it is the EU CRA that is most pressing.. there are many more

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/eus-proposed-cyber-res...