Additional advice for developers and designers in 'code in the open'

[ElenaFdR]

Is it redundant to ask developers and designers to consider eventual publication/public working in all of their project design? To plan for their work to be open even while they're still working on a closed prototype?

For example, at the COVID app development webinar, we heard that apps were developed in private (due to the highly political/sensitive nature and media scrutiny), and then had to be fully reviewed for discouraging or embarassing code documentation or commit messages before publication.

[Ainali]

Even if it would be redundant, I think it still might be a good idea. Working radically in the open is still quite unusual, so extra reminders might be necessary for people not defaulting to a closed process/tool.