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Self-certify the OpenSSF Best Practices badge (CII-Best-Practices 0 → 5) #48

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@chicks-net

Context

Scorecard's CII-Best-Practices check is 0/10 because the repo has no
OpenSSF Best Practices badge at all. Self-certifying the project as
"in progress" is worth 5/10 on the check; earning silver is worth 10/10.
Deferred from the scorecard-gap work (#47) by maintainer decision:
"create an issue to do this later".

What to do

  • Sign the project up at https://www.bestpractices.dev (GitHub login,
    add project chicks-net/ctm)
  • Walk the self-assessment; most silver criteria are already met here:
    GPL-2.0 license, security policy, contributing guide, CI tests on every
    PR, SAST (CodeQL), secret scanning (gitleaks), dependency updates
    (Renovate), signed releases with SLSA provenance
  • Fill in the handful of genuinely-missing answers honestly (fuzzing is
    now covered; things like "project uses static analysis" check out)
  • Link the badge in the README once the project page exists

Why

Roughly an hour of form-filling for +5 on a weight-2 Scorecard check,
plus the badge itself is a useful honest checklist of project hygiene —
the questions that are hard to answer are exactly the ones worth thinking
about.

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