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alphagov / govuk-rfcs

govuk-rfcs

GOV.UK staff use this repository as a forum to discuss and make technical decisions

3Distinct people
3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
80GitHub stars
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GOV.UK staff use this repository as a forum to discuss and make technical decisions

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-07-01 10:38:32 UTC to 2026-01-25 03:40:47 UTC.

012019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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This team is really something when it comes to transparency. For a government entity, an unreasonably large amount of their work is on GitHub. Examples: Front end design system: https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-frontend Project board: https://github.com/orgs/alphagov/projects/4 Requests for comment: https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-rfcs Gov.uk infrastructure as code (WIP): https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-infrastructure “The GDS way”: How they work, tech stack, processes, etc https://github.com/alphagov/gds-way “Terraform modules for on-boarding with Cyber Security services eg define the IAM SecurityAudit role”: https://github.com/alphagov/cyber-security-shared-terraform-... Full GitHub org with >1,500 repos: https://github.com/alphagov
In How and why we removed jQuery from Gov.uk
From the related discussion: I think it's important for us to move on in this discussion, so I'm going to reject this RFC. This RFC proposes to use the govuk data tool to aid people in getting local development repo. However, the generation task of govuk data uses govuk-guix, which is a personal project built by Chris. We, as tech leadership of GOV.UK, have decided not to add guix to the GOV.UK stack. There's a lot of value in the example of the guix data tool and this discussion. We'll make sure that it informs the discussions we're having right now about work on the GOV.UK developer environment for next quarters. https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-rfcs/pull/101#issuecomment... So, it seems to be once person's project and the gov.uk leadership seem to have rejected Guix. Still a shame though, Guix and Nix are great for reproducibility and
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setting up development environments. But I also understand that they don't want to introduce Guile Scheme, which most of their developers will not have a background in.
In GNU Guix package definitions for Gov.uk software and systems

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