This project identifies best practices for open source software (OSS) and implements a badging system for those best practices. The "BadgeApp" badging system is a simple web application that lets OSS projects self-certify that they meet the criteria and show a badge. The real goal of this project is to encourage OSS projects to apply best practices, and to help users determine which OSS projects do so. We believe that OSS projects that implement best practices are more likely to produce better software, including more secure software.
This is an early version of this material; we are releasing it so we can get feedback. Feedback is welcome via the GitHub site as issues or pull requests. There is also a mailing list for general discussion.
- Draft Badging Criteria
- Draft Background on Badging
- ChangeLog
- Current implementation - notes about the BadgeApp implementation
- Information on how to contribute
- Current Burndown and Kanban Board of this project.
All material is released under the MIT license. All material that is not executable, including all text when not executed, is also released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 International (CC BY 3.0) license or later. In SPDX terms, everything here is licensed under MIT; if it's not executable, including the text when extracted from code, it's "(MIT OR CC-BY-3.0+)".