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HL7/fhir
Official source for the HL7 FHIR Specification
This is the source repository for the HL7 FHIR specification itself — not an implementation library, not a tooling SDK. It's the raw materials (spreadsheets, images, templates) that get compiled into the published spec at hl7.org/fhir. Unless you're one of a handful of HL7 core editors, you have no reason to clone this.
Active maintenance with CI on both master and R4B branches keeps the published spec current. The Gradle-based build pipeline is reproducible and documented well enough that a determined outsider could actually run it. The PR triage automation via Mergify reduces editor toil on contribution management. Changes flow through Jira for traceability, which matters for a standards body.
The repo is almost entirely images, drawio source files, and generated HTML — not the kind of code a developer can learn from or contribute to meaningfully. The build requires 16 GB RAM and 20 minutes to run, making local iteration painful. There's no fast feedback loop: you can't test a small spec change without running the full publisher. If you're actually building FHIR-compliant software, this repo gives you nothing; go to the published spec or use a FHIR server library instead.