In 2023, the Russian Foundation for the Development of Information Technologies (RFRIT) will conduct an experiment to launch a local open source repository such as GitHub. About this in an interview with Forbes said Maxim Parshin, Deputy Head of the Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation.
According to Parshin, on March 21, RFRIT began accepting applications from users who wanted to test the Russian GitHub analogue. Applicants are expected to be ready to actively use the software hosted in the pool and participate in the development process. Applications will be received until April 1, 2023.
“Why do you need a national warehouse? Developing the open source collaboration industry is important to us. This requires special skills and culture from domestic developers and the national repository should contribute to that,” said Parshin.
According to him, the first organizations to embed their code on the Russian analogue of GitHub will be RFRIT itself, the Ministry of Digital Development, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Rosreestr, as well as “other federal executive bodies, extra-budgetary state funds.” , officials of subjects of the federation, government agencies, legal entities and individuals” .
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