[Fiware-security] Low Performance (43%) - Why?

[Stephan Neuhaus]

On 2015-03-31 15:10, MANUEL ESCRICHE VICENTE wrote:
> Dear Partners,
>
> We have just held the Security chapter closing session where only Pascal
> and Sebastien attended.
>
> It’s a bit disappointing for me to see that this chapter is only
> reaching 43% of targets, which is low performance.
>
> I’d appreciate to understand the reasons. Be aware we are closing
> Release 4.2, which takes three months.

Dear Manuel,

this is probably mainly because of me. I have many issues open that I 
cannot close yet; most of them have to do with documentation and the 
unit test plan. Much work has been done for the documentation; see for 
example 
https://forge.fiware.org/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/fiwaresecurity/index.php/User:Sten 
or 
https://forge.fiware.org/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/fiwaresecurity/index.php/Privacy_-_Unit_Tests_%28Issuer%29 
or 
https://forge.fiware.org/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/fiwaresecurity/index.php/Privacy_-_Unit_Tests_%28Verifier%29 
During the last regular conference call with Pascal, I asked for 
formal(!) guidelines how to document a GE. The reason was that I wanted 
a document that would serve as the formal(!) yardstick for evaluation of 
the documentation.

It turns out that at the moment, there is no such formal(!) guideline. 
The only thing we have are the documents that have been reviewed and 
have passed muster for the previous incarnation of FIWARE (or was that 
FI-WARE?).

That means that I can't close these issues yet. But as you can see, much 
of the CONTENT is already there, I'm just not confident that they will 
pass review, because I don't have a formal(!) list of review criteria.

Very few of the Privacy GE open issues have to do with the software; we 
did everything we wanted to do for this release.  Also note that since 
the Privacy GE is not in the catalogue, these open issues do not affect 
the release.

I hope this clears things up a bit. Don't hesitate to contact me if you 
have any further questions.

Best,

Stephan