ZAP – ZAP Funding and the Open Source Fellowship
As you may well be aware ZAP left OWASP to join the new Software Security Project on the basis that the Linux Foundation would be able to secure funding for core ZAP development. Unfortunately the proposed funding for ZAP has been withdrawn and as a result ZAP will no longer be joining the Linux Foundation. Note that the Software Security Project will still be going ahead, but again, not part of LF.
ZAP is a complex and ambitious project. Commercial companies that maintain projects equivalent to ZAP have hundreds of people working on them. It is not possible to maintain ZAP in one’s spare time, no matter how many people volunteer. I believe that 2 people working full time on ZAP is really the minimum we need in order to maintain ZAP, and that is not enough for ZAP to really thrive.
Over the last few years we have struggled to get enough funding for ZAP, and the main funding we have achieved has not proved reliable.
