I am French and the few last software projects the state has been involved in were utter catastrophes.
The code that is used to dispatch high-school graduates according to their choice was recently audited by the Court of Auditors[0], and the StopCOVID application's source code was released[1].
The problem is that innovation is just a buzzword. They still hand out millions to private actors like Atos, Accenture, etc, while managers are patting themselves on the back and produce the shittiest software possible to get a 10 years maintenance contract that will cost hundreds of millions.
I'm not saying it's better in other countries, I'm just saying that people must realise that the French state should not be trusted to produce high-quality software.
The code that is used to dispatch high-school graduates according to their choice was recently audited by the Court of Auditors[0], and the StopCOVID application's source code was released[1].
The problem is that innovation is just a buzzword. They still hand out millions to private actors like Atos, Accenture, etc, while managers are patting themselves on the back and produce the shittiest software possible to get a 10 years maintenance contract that will cost hundreds of millions.
I'm not saying it's better in other countries, I'm just saying that people must realise that the French state should not be trusted to produce high-quality software.
[0]: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&tl=en&u=h... [1]: https://gitlab.inria.fr/stopcovid19/stopcovid-android