After 1 year of active development under my personal Github Id commjoen, it is time to migrate our OWASP project WrongSecrets to the OWASP Github organization.
And now you might wonder why, why...now?
Prove Value First
We wanted to wait to move the project to the OWASP organization. We were curious if this project would be liked, maintained, or contributed to after its inception. Instead, we wanted to test it for a year and get feedback. Projects under the OWASP GitHub organization should not be "dead weights" or "pet experiments", which would lower the organization's value. The OWASP organization should contain solid projects with active maintainers aiming to deliver quality. Moving a project too early with some noise will not help the organization. Now, the time is right to move this project to the OWASP organization as it has proven its value to many!
Your Contribution safe with OWASP
We often heard that people were reluctant to commit to (a fork of) the old repo under our personal accounts. After all: what would hold us back from taking it away from the internet, and creating a commercial product for ourselves, while you put your sweat and tears in as a volunteer?
By moving this project to the OWASP GitHub organization, we hope to remove this fear of potential new contributors and make it much more open to all who might be interested.
We would love to pursue the new OWASP "Production" status, possibly in the future. To do so, we must also bring our repositories under the OWASP Github organization.
No Commercial Interest
Please note that, as we said at the beginning, we have no commercial interest in the project. It was born out of our desire to have fun and to educate - we hope you can have a lot of fun with it!
What is Next?
There are tons of things next, have a look at our github issues to see what the future has in store for this awesome project. Feel free to reach out to us through Slack as well!
Special Thanks
We would like to thank Harold Blankenship for helping us to migrate our repositories to the OWASP organization. Harold has shown to be a great help in many needs of this project. It would not have gone so fast without him.
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