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Re:Healthcare.gov: Code by the People, for the People, Relea... by cjoh on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @05:06PM (#6015497)
From what I know of the project, CMS has a GitHub enterprise account that they used internally to "iteratively create on github," this Repo is the one that moved over after release.

It's a big step to have government releasing ANYTHING on Github. And yes, it's the next logical step for them to start projects on GitHub. But they're not there yet -- its worth noting that neither Sunlight nor Code for America start their projects out in the open 100% of the time either. It's new ground, and government will, I think, move more towards developing out in the open as we progress. But for now, I'm pretty excited that they embraced technology from this decade.

I should note I'm the former Director of Sunlight Labs, and am an advisor to Code for America.

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Re:Healthcare.gov: Code by the People, for the People, Relea... by digiphile on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @09:13PM (#6016810)
As I understand it, that's correct: built using Github Enterprise internaly and then published publicly. There was code in public, on the Development Seed account, with respect to coding for the project; anyone can go look at the commits there. Your other points speak for themselves.
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Re:Healthcare.gov: Code by the People, for the People, Relea... by count on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @12:43AM (#6017493)
Did GitHub go through FISMA certification for their public site? How are these govt agencies using the system to host code without getting the platform accredited?
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