The Ministry of Digital Development approved the list of participants in the experiment to create the “Russian GitHub”, a national repository of open source software. In particular, it included the Moscow Stock Exchange, the Ozon market, Tinkoff Bank and Sbertech. In total, the list includes 82 participants, of which 62 legal persons and 20 natural persons. At the same time, neither Yandex, nor VK, nor Kaspersky Lab were included in the list. Positive Technology and InfoWatch are also not among the participants.
As the Ministry of Digital Transformation told Vedomosti, both developers and users of open source solutions were included in the list.
The fact that the department was going to conduct an experiment to create a national repository became known in the fall, and the idea appeared in 2020. In October last year, it was reported that an analogue of GitHub was to be developed by April 2024, The largest service to host IT projects.
It is now planned to release a trial version at the end of the third quarter. And for the mass market, the product will be available in late 2023 or early 2024, a Kommersant source notes.
The experiment itself has been carried out since March. The Ministry of Digital Development offered to spend 1.3 billion rubles on the repository. The funds are supposed to be allocated from the Rosinfokominvest fund to the Russian Fund for the Development of Internet Technologies.
He, in turn, will send money to ANO Open Source, this structure will develop the terms of reference for the repository, the sources say.
As the Ministry of Digital Development clarifies, not only the organizations on the list participate in the project. Those on the list “assumed additional obligations.”
The Astra Group clarified that the experiment mainly involved authorities and code developers under government contracts.
As the deputy head of the Ministry of Digital Transformation Makstim Parshin said in an interview with Forbes in March, the department does not want isolation and welcomes the creation of other storage facilities. But Russia should have its own completely autonomous repository.
Author:
Natalia Gormaleva
Source: RB
I am a professional journalist and content creator with extensive experience writing for news websites. I currently work as an author at Gadget Onus, where I specialize in covering hot news topics. My written pieces have been published on some of the biggest media outlets around the world, including The Guardian and BBC News.
