
Why Owasp BLT ? Contribution from 5 to 50+ prs !
It was the time when I thought to get some open source contribution after I was done from my internship. I was heavily into TS/JS ecosystem and started finding projects for the same. So I went to gsocorganizations.dev to find some organization, then I just applied the filter for web and started scrolling. Most of the orgs were either too big to get started or had zero activity; you know the type, last commit 8 months ago, issues with no responses. Then I saw OWASP BLT. Honestly my first reaction was, what even is this? A bug logging tool with BACON tokens and a leaderboard? Sounded like someone mixed a bug bounty platform with a gamified Reddit. I was skeptical. But the repo had recent commits, open issues with responses, and the maintainer (Donnie) was actually replying to people. That was enough for me to at least clone it. The First PR — Small But It Counts I spent the first few days just reading the codebase. BLT runs Django on the backend, has a Cloudflare Workers API layer called
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