-A repository must be made public if it forms part of a [publication](https://www.opensafely.org/policies-for-researchers/#acknowledgment-and-data-sharing--publication-policy). We have a [guide to publishing repositories](publishing-repo.md) that you must read. During the development stage of a project, a repository may be kept private, so that only members of the OpenSAFELY GitHub organisation are able to view it. We welcome people sharing code in public while they are developing, where they wish to do so, but we recognise that for many this would be a little like drafting a paper entirely in public, so it is not a requirement. Even when there is no publication, we expect all repositories to become public, within twelve months after first code execution. During our pilot phase of OpenSAFELY Users, if we encounter edge cases proposing that a particular repo should be excepted from this policy we will develop an open and structured Exceptions Process.
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