Badges? Why don’t I have any stinking badges?
With a flick or your wrist and a flourish of your cape, you unveil your latest open source beauty. It has more bells than a bell foundry, more whistles than a traffic cop convention. But there’s one problem: your OSS-contributing peers all have these cool badges decorating their projects. They’re so shiny and colorful! They imbue an air of legitimacy to their projects, like a detective flashing his badge at a crime scene. They’ve got badges showing off the pristine green state of their CI build, their sky high test coverage, the version of their NuGet package or Ruby gem. It’s just brilliant. You shake your head with badge envy.