More good news. NTPSec just got their badge: https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/79 OPNFV got a badge earlier, but here’s a post from today about their experience (I think it’s prett

A number of projects are close to a badge, but don’t (yet) quite have it. Perhaps the criteria are too hard. Perhaps the criteria are fine, but we’re asking people to make reasonable improvements (and

Dale Visser: > > Perhaps this suggests a new criterion... In a quick look through all > > the criteria on a current badge, I don't see any specifically > > suggesting regular reviews of library/packag

As you can see, we have great news - more projects have badges: * c-ares: https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/291 - a dependency of curl’s * BRL-CAD: https://bestpractices.coreinfras

I finally pushed enough off my plate and found time to finish filling out BRL-CAD's badging, which I’d started 6 months ago. Happy to be #8 in the list and 28th to get to 100%. Here’s a retrospective

FYI, the site “HTTPSWatch” reports on sites’ HTTPS support by type of site. This one is especially relevant: https://httpswatch.com/programming The bottom line is that *some* sites are doing okay (Git

I don't post as much here about the "plumbing" of the BadgeApp web app, but some of you might be interested in the following. --- David A. Wheeler ============================== Last week (on August 1

Great news! The project “JSON for Modern C++” just got a badge: https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/289 They started a badge entry 4 days ago (2016-08-15 07:12:13 UTC) and got the ba

Good news, we are seeing a significant influx in the number of projects pursuing a badge: https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/project_stats As of late yesterday we have 215 projects pursuing

It makes me happy to see this: https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/88 Syncthing is my current chosen solution for keeping redundant copies and a local backup (using a portable HDD co

Good news, we continue to get more projects working on badges, including some pretty popular projects. Some projects that you’ve probably heard of include: * SQLite (DBMS): https://bestpractices.corei

Hey, I pushed a little further on the badge process for two of "my" projects today and then I decided to check out this "CPE" thing that is asked for promimently on the top of the Basics tab. (I've ho

Good news – we’re featured on the podcast “The ChangeLog” #215 (“Core Infrastructure Initiative Best Practices Badge with David A. Wheeler”). You can listen to it here: https://changelog.com/215/ Or u

I’d like to collect stories of any changes OSS projects have made to get a badge. If know of any, please edit this wiki page: https://github.com/linuxfoundation/cii-best-practices-badge/wiki/Impacts (

We have another badged project, “FrogPw”: https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/279 While this project doesn’t have the same kind of use as (say) the Linux kernel, every project badged

All: I have *great* news!! The OWASP ZAP project just received the CII best practices badge! OWASP ZAP is a widely-used tool for scanning web applications to look for security vulnerabilities. I use i

Hi, I wanted to try some automated analysis on the CII badge project repos, however it seems that the current data doesn't contain any info on the repo type. While this can often be guessed (e.g. ever

We have some new holders of the CII best practices badge: - OPNFV: https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/164 - Open Stack: https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/246 - V

Currently users and potential co-developers can’t easily see if a project they’re looking at has a badge. In addition, if the badge is to be useful, people need to know that the badging project exists