I’m *delighted* to report that LibreOffice just got a best practices badge! Details here: https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/307 for more. I currently review all new passing badge f

All: We have a new badge-holder: Bareflank hypervisor. Details: https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/325 It “aims to provide all of the scaffolding needed to rapidly prototype new hyp

We have some badge entries that haven’t updated for a while. Maybe we should start sending reminders. Proposal is here: https://github.com/linuxfoundation/cii-best-practices-badge/issues/487 I’d like

We have another badge: MagicMirror. Details: https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/347 --- David A. Wheeler

Just received. -- Dan Kohn <mailto:dan@...> tel:+1-415-233-1000 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: badgeapp@... <badgeapp@...> Date: Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 6:44 PM Subject: Your project does n

We now have email reminders set to automatically start going out, beginning Sep 8 23:00 UTC. They’ll only go to projects where there’s been no update for at least 30 days, and either no reminders or t

Just wondering what everyone's thoughts are about when a project should consider a particular issue related to the badging process to be completed. Can we / should we consider something completed only

Dear David and list, I believe a couple of things can be improved in the current CII-badges: 1. Early patching of critical vulnerabilities is not mandated: patching time frames are subjective and vuln

I’m thinking that perhaps we should add some test coverage measurements for higher-level badges (NOT for “passing”). However, there are many options, and a variety of pros and cons. Below are some of

Great news - Blender now has a badge! Details here: https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/286 For those who don't know, Blender is a free and open source 3D creation suite, whose websi

FYI - The GitLab Enterprise Edition has supported “GitLab Pages” (which serve static pages similar to GitHub pages). Recently GitLab has announced that they’re adding “GitLab Pages” to their open sour

Even more good news - SourceForge is now also supporting HTTPS for project webistes, which makes meeting criterion "https_sites" even easier for some people. Details here: https://sourceforge.net/blog

As you know, most OSS projects today use a repository hosting service (aka "forge"), GitHub being the most popular. This means that many OSS projects have had trouble meeting criterion "sites_https" b

All: *Many* projects use GitHub pages with custom domains, but GitHub does not natively support HTTPS if you’re using GitHub pages with custom domains. I think we should make it clear that using a CDN

All: I'd like to start creating the criteria for "higher level" badges. Please reply, or add issues, for things you think should be included. A very early draft is here: https://github.com/linuxfounda

FYI, the badging application (“BadgeApp”) has just upgraded from Rails 4 to Rails 5. There were a number of issues that needed to be dealt with; my thanks to Dan Kohn for spearheading the work. If you

We have an updated draft set of criteria for “passing+1” and “passing+2”: https://github.com/linuxfoundation/cii-best-practices-badge/blob/master/doc/other.md These are *not* the final product – but I

All: Like many other sites, the “BadgeApp” had problems on Feb 28, 2017. This was due to problems within Amazon services (specifically S3 and other services that depend on it). We missed getting a pro

We have draft criteria for the proposed “higher-level” badges here: https://github.com/linuxfoundation/cii-best-practices-badge/blob/master/doc/other.md We’d love to get feedback (via this mailing lis

All: Issue #674 proposes to slightly relax the passing criterion “release_notes_vulns”, which currently says: > “The release notes MUST identify every publicly known vulnerability that is fixed in eac