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Guidance for quality assurance of code for civil service researchers and analysts.

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[Glossary V2.docx](https://github.com/best-practice-and-impact/qa-of-code-guidance/files/14833065/Glossary.V2.docx) Migration & pop stats have collated together some definitions they would like to see added to the glossary. This exercise was led by Graham Greenless. We should review...

In place of https://github.com/best-practice-and-impact/qa-of-code-guidance/blob/611df2c0e71d869d11042194c7e13addbbf5f0a6/book/version_control.md?plain=1#L511 and the explanation above it, is it worth considering the older and possibly more well-established approach of [nbstripout ](https://github.com/kynan/nbstripout)?

Unless it's a cunning reinforcement technique, the paragraph starting "It is again worth stressing the importance of not committing sensitive" is a duplicate of the previous one and could be...

We are having an issue interpreting the following line in the moderate checklist. We are seeking guidance on interpreting this. `- [ ] Names used in the code are explicit,...

Add to glossary the term "Dual Running", I am not quite sure what it means (I had to look it up) and I feel it is quite technical language which...

Pressing the "Suggest Edit" button at the top-right of the home page, goes to Error 404. (https://best-practice-and-impact.github.io/qa-of-code-guidance/intro.html)

Add the R and python version of the AF colour pallet to the open source list

The python code examples in configuration chapter need updating. 1. Using `yaml.load(file)` is deprecated, see [here](https://github.com/yaml/pyyaml/wiki/PyYAML-yaml.load(input)-Deprecation). 2. On line 243, `sys.argv < 2` should be `len(sys.argv) < 2`. Happy to...

Open source section should link to our guidance on [open sourcing analytical code](https://analysisfunction.civilservice.gov.uk/policy-store/open-sourcing-analytical-code/)

It would be useful to know if there are any suggested style guides for SQL, similar to the tidyverse style guide for R.