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Nope. Why is it normal to take a few weeks to release the source? If it's good enough to release its good enough o publish openly.

This government has ample form. If you want my recommendation you need to open it up.

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Firstly, it is not normal in the open source world. Hell, it's not even normal open source projects owned large companies that are the foundation for a major product - like Android. Secondly, as the story points out, it is a fork of an open source app that is already on github. It's not like the infrastructure for it isn't already set up - they just had to do a git clone, and then use standard CI techniques

Maybe the OP isn't familiar with the modern software engineering techniques we now use to improve quality.

If the source code is ALREADY released, what is the harm in immediately releasing the fork? Immediate public release of forks IS common practice.

Especially since the upstream project appears to be GPL-licensed. Sure, they could have contacted the original developer and obtained a different license, but why would they do that? As far as we can tell, it looks like a breach of the license.

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