myUSCIS: handling private repos

[anthonygarvan]

Hey,

I understand the USCIS project agreement predated 18F's open source policy, but it would still be nice to handle this gracefully somehow on the dashboard. Some options:

• Link to a "shell" github project containing a readme explaining that most of the code is closed source, but users can still open issues on this project, or email myUSCISSupport@uscis.dhs.gov.
• Don't show the link to "code"
• link to https://github.com/18F/open-source-policy/blob/master/practice.md instead

Let me know if you want a PR.

Big fan of this dashboard by the way.

[ultrasaurus]

thanks @anthonygarvan for opening up a github issue! Sorry to be so late in responding. It looks like this might have been partially addressed. I don't see a link to the code here: https://18f.gsa.gov/dashboard/project/uscis/ -- @DavidEBest did that get fixed in your effort to handle errors in a nicer way?

We're currently grappling with how we might represent projects which don't have a repo (or have mutliple repos). @melodykramer is getting more information from the team and is going to work on a better mockup (see issue #275). Do you have additional context about they myUSCIS support email and how it is used by our target audience or USCIS? is that how bugs are reported now?