I recently made some tweaks that seem to really bump up website performance. By adding some “preload” statements and a fragment cache, the front page on the “master” branch is getting webpagetest.org

I think we should switch from Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) version 2.0 to version 3.0 in the criteria. Any objections? We don’t need to do this quickly, but I’d like it to be in the queu

This is an automated monthly status report of the best practices badge application covering the month 2018-02. Here are some selected statistics for most recent completed month, preceded by the same s

A big “CONGRATS!” to the German translators, who just completed translating the BadgeApp into German. Thank you very much! We now have complete translations for German (de), French (fr), Japanese (ja)

The OWASP Juice Shop project has (after some time) gotten a badge, and I plan to let their application stand: https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/223 This is an odd project for the b

If you are a native/fluent Spanish speaker who’d be willing to do some translations for the best practices badge site, please contact me! If you know someone trustworthy who fits that bill, please con

All, for your information: The Linux Foundation's IT department has informed me that they are going to change how the mailing list works sometime in May 2018. If you just read the emails you receive,

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We have a request for tweaking two silver requirements involving crypto (specifically TLS) from the Zephyr project. Some details below. We don’t have any particular text change proposals yet. If you h

We now have over 1,500 participating projects! As of Sunday, 2018-04-29, we had 1,501 participating projects. Of them, 168 projects have earned a passing badge. We’ve had generally steady growth from

Hi I finding issue while trying to update the https link in the CII badging for the following project https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/en/projects/1702 Under the section, The project sites

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I’m proposing a minor clarification of the license_location criterion here: https://github.com/coreinfrastructure/best-practices-badge/issues/1133 Comments welcome! --- David A. Wheeler

All: On May 16th the CII-badges mailing list will undergo some changes, courtesy of the Linux Foundation’s IT group. If the only thing you do is receive emails on the mailing list, I’m told that nothi

Greetings CII community! The Linux Foundation has connected with a new vendor called Groups.io, which provides mailing list services in a simple but modern interface. Groups.io offers all of the capab

As you may know there is tons of media coverage over efail: https://efail.de/ The GnuPG team response seems to indicate that the researchers really didn't properly engage or tune their message to avoi

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)'s official beginning enforcement date is 2018-05-25, which is just 11 days away. As far as I know, we don't have any GDPR issues - but if you think we

We've recently made some security/privacy improvements to the BadgeApp, and I thought it'd be useful to mention here on the mailing list. In short, we've: 1. Started encrypting email addresses in the

All: John Mertic and Mark Hornick recently suggested to me that there should be a “short intro/motivational video” about the best practices badging project. Basically, in around 5-6 minutes (and certa

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