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> From: Peter Kovacs [mailto:legi...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2016 01:41
> To: dev <dev@openoffice.apache.org>; gan.kokleong.adr...@stee.stengg.com
> Subject: Re: SSDLC Compliance - OpenOffice
> 
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> Peter Kovacs <legi...@gmail.com> schrieb am Di., 20. Dez. 2016, 10:39:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Can you elaborate on this?
> > Do you simply want to know or do you need this as an official
> statement?
> > I think you are Query the wrong Project if you need an official
> response.
> > Open Office 3.3.1 and older were maintained by Oracle. I am not sure
> if
> > Apache Foundation has the right to speak for this time. As libre
> office we
> > are a successor to Oracle OpenOffice Project.
> >
> > This is of course my personal opinion. I am not sure if Apache
> Foundation
> > has the same opinion like me on this.
> >
> > All the best
> > Peter
> >
> > GAN Kok Leong, Adrian <gan.kokleong.adr...@stee.stengg.com> schrieb am
> > Di., 20. Dez. 2016, 08:50:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would like to find out whether OpenOffice version 3.3 and 3.3.1 is
> > developed and comply with Secure Software Development Life Cycle?
[orcmid] 

I am confident that there were no Capability Maturity Model or related 
assurance processes applied when OpenOffice.org was developed under the 
umbrella of Sun Microsystems and then Oracle Corporation.

At Apache OpenOffice, there is no such process, including for the Secure 
Software Development Life Cycle, if you are referring to 
<https://www.us-cert.gov/bsi/articles/knowledge/sdlc-process/secure-software-development-life-cycle-processes>.

There is no means for assessment of Trusted CMM for Apache OpenOffice, since 
there is no process management in the sense involved in the Capability Maturity 
Model.  Lacking process management, there is also no accountability concerning 
processes in the sense considered in the CMM.  Those with a sense of humor 
would consider this to be somewhere less than CMM Level 1.

It is not clear to me how open-source governance, providing software free to 
the public without warranty and entirely driven by a meritocracy of unpaid 
volunteers who choose what and how they work on something, would accomplish 
this.  In any case, it is not a consideration at Apache OpenOffice.  I cannot 
recall ever seeing anything recognizable as the activities identified at 
<https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Secure_SDLC_Cheat_Sheet>.

I cannot speak for LibreOffice.  There might be more management structure than 
for Apache projects.  I believe there is a core engineering team.  Whether 
there is much attention to SSDLC processes and the necessary accountability and 
concrete assessment is something that needs to be discussed with the 
LibreOffice team.  Speculations here on dev@ oo.a.o are useless.  Most of the 
claims I see about dependability or lack-thereof are anecdotal and based on 
sparse evidence.  

Although the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) is a security 
assurance process that might be adaptable, I am not aware of any effort to 
investigate that for open-source projects such as OpenOffice and my suspicion 
is that there is no such interest (more likely, that there be hostility) 
despite the good reputation of that process, 
<https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sdl/default.aspx>.  I have never seen threat 
modeling performed at Apache OpenOffice, for example.

Thanks for asking.  It is a great question.

 - Dennis


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