I wish there was a single place where all government related (open-source) projects are listed; maybe a usa-gov organization on GitHub where all repos can be easily accessible.
It's not exactly a single place, but this page [0] lists the Github organizations for many federal agencies. It's not comprehensive, notably it's missing the NSA organization [1].
GitHub doesn’t really allow nested or even related organizations so it would be a nightmare to have all repos in a single org.
There is a GitHub for government [0] but it relies on contribs and isn’t very complete.
GSA started code.gov under the Obama administration with the aim to create a single index of all government projects. It withered under Trump and was basically defunded under Biden so they don’t really do much other than link out to major agencies and there’s no longer a requirement to timely index.
My org has like a 1000 repos and we’re one of hundreds of agencies so I can’t imagine collecting all these together without a little effort. The original code.gov worked pretty well as everyone just dropped a code.json file onto their web site and GSA scooped them up and combined them into a single. So it’s a real shame they stopped doing that, and stopped asking people to publish their code.jsons as it was a good idea.
I'm not trying to start trouble, but GitHub is not the only game in town and GitLab for sure allows nested groups, with their own permission structures, with the extra benefit that the government could host their own GitLab instance for extra benefits
Merely as a point of reference, https://github.com/orgs/microsoft/repositories cites they currently have 6100 repos with another 2200 in /orgs/Azure so 10000 in an GH org wouldn't be unprecedented. I couldn't readily find any way to cough up their other top-level brands, and the "topics" seem to apply only to the repos themselves, not to the GH Organizations
I use gitlab as well and really like their groups feature.
My point stands though as it’s really impossible to try to standardize an organization as massive as a government into a single code management system, much less a single org, even if it has fantastic hierarchical management.
The government can host their own GitHub instance if they want to. I think the point is that there are probably thousands of “servers” with government repos. And consolidating to one “server” is a horrible idea.
