Create a HOWTO guide / tutorial for maintainers to pass criteria

[webchick]

So, the criteria used for determining badge levels is SUPER thorough, covering a variety of best practices. Awesome!

However. It's also HELLA intimidating if you are in the seat of an open source project trying to pass said criteria. :)

The goal of this issue would be to create some "how to" / tutorial documentation to explain to maintainers:

• For any that are not self-explanatory, provide a longer-form description with links to more background info.
• Provide some pointers to good examples that meet the criteria.
• Similarly, provide some examples of what does NOT meet the criteria.
• If this concept is totally new to a project, some "getting started" material on where to start in creating/starting such documentation/process in your project.
• (ideally) A pointer to some sort of designated forum / Slack channel / etc. for maintainers to ask Q&A as they go through
• (probably other things)

If this is seen as a worthy idea, I'd be happy to chip away at it over time.

[david-a-wheeler]

We certainly want it to be as easy as possible to get a badge!

That said, we already provide details for almost every criterion, and the "details" provide such tips. They are viewable when you fill in the form; you can also see all the details for the "passing" criteria here: https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/en/criteria?details=true

If you think they're okay but just need a sentence or 2 added in a few places, great, please propose them & add them.

If you think we need longer descriptive documents, maybe we should create an area where such documentation can be created & edited, one for each criterion where a longer description is helpful. We can then link from the details to the documentation. I'm not sure where that should go, but that's a worthwhile discussion.

As far as "getting started" goes - it's hard to figure out what that would look like, since projects start at different points. Can you tell me what you have in mind?

We could create a Slack channel on the OpenSSF Slack channel; that would be easy. I don't know if it would help enough, but we could try & see.