14 DAY TRIAL // During the LinuxCon and CloudOpen events that took place last week in Seattle, North America, Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative announced that they have started developing a new free Badge Program and that they wanted to know the open source community's opinion on the matter, especially about the criteria to be used.
More exactly, the press release, which we have attached at the end of the article for reference, notes that the Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) project, which is in charge of enabling respected developers, industry stakeholders, and technology companies to collaboratively identify important open-source projects that need funding, seeks input from members of the open source community on the guidelines to be used for determining the stability, security, and quality of open-source software.
"By coming out early with some initial criteria, we hope that the community will quickly get involved and not only influence the questions, but also acknowledge how important it is for developers to be able to quickly assess the health of a project that they depend on," said Emily Ratliff, senior director of Infrastructure Security at The Linux Foundation. "A free, credible badge system can fill this niche, ensuring that new projects depend only upon the healthiest open source projects, thus improving our global Internet infrastructure."
A draft of the criteria is now available on GitHub
Linux Foundation posted a draft of the criteria for its new security-focused badge program on the popular GitHub project hosting website, and it is addresses to anyone who wants to contribute to its refinement. Users will be able to submit pull requests or file issues for areas they think need improvements. You can also provide feedback for the criteria on the Core Infrastructure Initiative's cii-badges mailing list. More details can be found in the press release attached below and on Badge Program's website.