# DevGuide

**Repository Path**: rootgd/DevGuide

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: DevGuide
- **Description**: https://github.com/OWASP/DevGuide
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: CC-BY-SA-4.0
- **Default Branch**: main
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

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- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2025-11-12
- **Last Updated**: 2025-11-12

## Categories & Tags

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## README

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## OWASP Foundation Developer Guide

The Developer Guide is one of the original documents from OWASP and so has a long history.
The original DevGuide repository has many of the [previous versions][versions]
going back to the [very first version 1.0][original] release from 2002.

This is the content for the Developer Guide document, the [DevGuide repository][devguide],
the latest version of this guide is accessible as a [web document][latest].

The content for the OWASP Developer Guide [project pages][project-pages] is in its own [repo][project-repo].

OWASP has a podcast on [The History of the OWASP Developer Guide][history]
which discusses the history and future of the project.

### Contributing

Contributions and suggestions for the Developer Guide are all welcome;
make a start by reading the [contributing guidelines][guide] and follow the [contributing code of conduct][conduct].

For other contributions to these pages please [create an issue][issues] or open a [pull request][request].

The easiest way to get in contact with the development community for this documentation project
is via the OWASP Slack [#project-developer-guide][project] project channel (you may [need to subscribe][subscribe] first).

You can follow the DevGuide on [Bluesky][bluesky].

The [project wiki][wiki] contains more information about the project's background and purpose.

If you have forked this repo, note that [the default branch has been renamed][faq1] to `main`.

### Project leaders / editors

The DevGuide leaders are:

* [Andra Lezza](mailto:andra.lezza@owasp.org)
* [Shruti Kulkarni](mailto:shruti.kulkarni@owasp.org)
* [Vandana Verma Sehgal](mailto:vandana.verma@owasp.org)
* [Harold Blankenship](mailto:harold.blankenship@owasp.org)
* [Jon Gadsden](mailto:jon.gadsden@owasp.org)

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OWASP DevGuide: _accessible security for developers_

[bluesky]: https://bsky.app/profile/devguide.bsky.social
[build]: https://github.com/OWASP/www-project-developer-guide/actions/workflows/ci.yaml
[conduct]: https://github.com/OWASP/DevGuide/blob/main/code_of_conduct.md
[devguide]: https://github.com/OWASP/DevGuide
[faq1]: https://github.com/OWASP/DevGuide/wiki/FAQs#the-default-branch-has-been-renamed
[guide]: https://github.com/OWASP/DevGuide/blob/main/contributing.md
[history]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niqV55vPTfw
[issues]: https://github.com/OWASP/DevGuide/issues/new/choose
[latest]: https://devguide.owasp.org/
[original]: https://github.com/OWASP/DevGuide/blob/1d24d140de3724b6f95655e53b8d0cc6689fbfd8/DevGuide1.0/OWASPBuildingSecureWebApplicationsAndWebServices-V1.0.pdf
[project]: https://owasp.slack.com/messages/C04QN6CMNAC
[project-pages]: https://owasp.org/www-project-developer-guide/
[project-repo]: https://github.com/OWASP/www-project-developer-guide
[request]: https://github.com/OWASP/DevGuide/pulls
[subscribe]: https://owasp.org/slack/invite
[versions]: https://github.com/OWASP/DevGuide/wiki#old-versions
[wiki]: https://github.com/OWASP/DevGuide/wiki