Posted on Wed Jan 31, 2018
Greetings from one of the smoggiest cities in Italy!
I have started removing the Best Practices badge from my projects. Quoting the website:
The Linux Foundation (LF) Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) Best Practices badge is a way for Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects to show that they follow best practices. Projects can voluntarily self-certify, at no cost, by using this web application to explain how they follow each best practice. The CII Best Practices Badge is inspired by the many badges available to projects on GitHub. Consumers of the badge can quickly assess which FLOSS projects are following best practices and as a result are more likely to produce higher-quality secure software.
It is a good initiative. I’ve learned of its existence from the Curl project, which has 100% compliance to the criteria.
The thing is that: for a small project, especially with a single developer/maintainer, it is more of a burden than an advantage. So goodbye.