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nwitnrw/freegov
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Drupal 8 for Government (Drupal 8 für die öffentliche Verwaltung)

8.4.0(5y ago)018GPL-2.0-or-laterPHPPHP >=7.2

Since Oct 30Pushed 5y ago1 watchersCompare

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deGov - Drupal 8 for Government
===============================

[](#degov---drupal-8-for-government)

Notes
-----

[](#notes)

deGov is the first Drupal 8 distribution focussing on the needs of (German) governmental organisations. It uses Acquia Lightning as a basis and extends this it with valueable functions to meet the use cases for different scenarios:

- Websites for governmental organisations from all levels (federal, regional, local) to publish information
- Service-oriented E-Government portals to close the gap between citizens and your administration
- Citizen Engagement portals to discuss and decide online
- Open311 portals for civic issue tracking
- Open data portals to publish and create communities around data
- Intranet/Extranet for government employees

Sounds interesting? Then go for it and install the first Drupal 8 distribution for government!

Prerequisites
-------------

[](#prerequisites)

- Webserver (Apache2, Nginx, Hiawatha, Microsoft IIS)
- PHP >= 7.1+ | Memory >= 64MB
- RDMS (MySQL => 5.5.3, MariaDB => 5.5.20, Percona Server => 5.5.8)
- Mailserver (Postfix, exim, etc.)
- [Composer](https://getcomposer.org/download/ "https://getcomposer.org/download/")

Installing deGov
----------------

[](#installing-degov)

**BEFORE YOU INSTALL:** please read the [prerequisites](#prerequisites)

First your need to setup the deGov repository.

```
composer create-project degov/degov-project MY_PROJECT_PATH

```

Change your **working directory** into deGov

```
$ cd MY_PROJECT_PATH

```

You need to install deGov. You need to choose one installation type ####**Drush**You can install your site via drush. Drush will be shipped by deGov

```
bin/drush si degov

```

\####**Webinstaller**Visit the **deGov-Domain** to start the installation process. Follow the Installer instructions to successfully finish the installation process.

```
http://[YOUR_SITE]/

```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

Visit the following page to log into your deGov Installation with your previously created User to administer your deGov Installation.

```
http://[YOUR_SITE]/user/login/

```

Testing
-------

[](#testing)

### PHPUnit

[](#phpunit)

Drupal 8 needs PHPUnit 4.8. Therefor it is recommended to download the [PHP phar archive](https://phar.phpunit.de/) in the appropriate version. Copy the `phpunit.xml.dist` file to `phpunit.xml` for fitting your needs. Afterwards you can execute the tests via:

```
php ./phpunit-4.8.9.phar

```

### Behat

[](#behat)

Needs to be added

Learn more about [testing in Drupal 8](https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/testing).

License
-------

[](#license)

[GNU General Public License, version 2](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html "visit GPLv2 website"). The same as the Drupal core.

###  Health Score

22

—

LowBetter than 22% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity6

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity48

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

2020d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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