Document response times, supported versions, access, secrets, and dependency policies (#5580)

Answer the OpenSSF Best Practices criteria that asked for policies the
project follows but had not written down:

- SECURITY.md: a first response within 14 days, publishing an advisory
  with credit once a fix is released, and that only the latest release
  receives security fixes.
- Governance: who has access to the project's resources, how write or
  admin access is granted, and how CI secrets are stored and rotated.
- Quality assurance: how dependencies of the build, test, and
  documentation tooling are pinned, scanned, and kept free of known
  vulnerabilities.

Also update the assurance case, since comparison no longer recurses per
nesting level (#5390), and point the best practices badge and links to
bestpractices.dev under the program's current name.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
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[![GitHub Downloads](https://img.shields.io/github/downloads/nlohmann/json/total)](https://github.com/nlohmann/json/releases)
[![GitHub Issues](https://img.shields.io/github/issues/nlohmann/json.svg)](https://github.com/nlohmann/json/issues)
[![Average time to resolve an issue](https://isitmaintained.com/badge/resolution/nlohmann/json.svg)](https://isitmaintained.com/project/nlohmann/json "Average time to resolve an issue")
[![CII Best Practices](https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/289/badge)](https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/289)
[![OpenSSF Best Practices](https://www.bestpractices.dev/projects/289/badge)](https://www.bestpractices.dev/projects/289)
[![OpenSSF Scorecard](https://api.scorecard.dev/projects/github.com/nlohmann/json/badge)](https://scorecard.dev/viewer/?uri=github.com/nlohmann/json)
[![Backup Status](https://app.cloudback.it/badge/nlohmann/json)](https://cloudback.it)
[![GitHub Sponsors](https://img.shields.io/badge/GitHub-Sponsors-ff69b4)](https://github.com/sponsors/nlohmann)
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ There are myriads of [JSON](https://json.org) libraries out there, and each may
- **Trivial integration**. Our whole code consists of a single header file [`json.hpp`](https://github.com/nlohmann/json/blob/develop/single_include/nlohmann/json.hpp). That's it. No library, no subproject, no dependencies, no complex build system. The class is written in vanilla C++11. All in all, everything should require no adjustment of your compiler flags or project settings. The library is also included in all popular [package managers](https://json.nlohmann.me/integration/package_managers/).
- **Serious testing**. Our code is heavily [unit-tested](https://github.com/nlohmann/json/tree/develop/tests/src) and covers [100%](https://coveralls.io/r/nlohmann/json) of the code, including all exceptional behavior. Furthermore, we checked with [Valgrind](https://valgrind.org) and the [Clang Sanitizers](https://clang.llvm.org/docs/index.html) that there are no memory leaks. [Google OSS-Fuzz](https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz/tree/master/projects/json) additionally runs fuzz tests against all parsers 24/7, effectively executing billions of tests so far. To maintain high quality, the project is following the [Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) best practices](https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/289). See the [quality assurance](https://json.nlohmann.me/community/quality_assurance) overview documentation.
- **Serious testing**. Our code is heavily [unit-tested](https://github.com/nlohmann/json/tree/develop/tests/src) and covers [100%](https://coveralls.io/r/nlohmann/json) of the code, including all exceptional behavior. Furthermore, we checked with [Valgrind](https://valgrind.org) and the [Clang Sanitizers](https://clang.llvm.org/docs/index.html) that there are no memory leaks. [Google OSS-Fuzz](https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz/tree/master/projects/json) additionally runs fuzz tests against all parsers 24/7, effectively executing billions of tests so far. To maintain high quality, the project is following the [OpenSSF Best Practices](https://www.bestpractices.dev/projects/289). See the [quality assurance](https://json.nlohmann.me/community/quality_assurance) overview documentation.
Other aspects were not so important to us: