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Erik Moeller edited this page Nov 15, 2019 · 2 revisions

Participants (alphabetical): Allie, Conor, Erik, Jen, John, Kevin, Kushal, Mickael, Ro

Topics and Call-outs

REMINDER: Monday stand-up one hour earlier (9 AM PST / 12 PM EST / 10:30 PM IST)

Discussion topics:

  • Advisory:
  • USB auto-attach (dev story)
    • As long as devs can detach/re-attach, we should be OK (they can)
    • We'll stick w/ udev approach for now

Allie

Yesterday:

  • Worked w/ Deeplow on issue where sources would sometimes mysteriously disappear. Fix works!
  • SDW dev env debugging -- had malformed key in config; still could not connect to JI. Rebuilt staging, starting over.

Today:

  • Finish ^^, then meet w/ Nina and Erik

Blockers or Asks: Should be OK for now

Conor

Yesterday:

  • Partial review on kernel changes

Today:

Blockers or Asks: None

Erik

Yesterday:

  • Collab w/ Nina and Kev on round of slide changes for Conor's preso today
    • Slide deck now has nice image-by-image build-out of classic SD architecture, plus a polished data flow diagram + security content
  • Downgraded Nina's laptop to working nightlies
  • Finalized review of Sr DevOps candidates and next round of screening
  • Light backlog grooming, bumping tasks per Allie's prioritization yesterday (see workstation backlog)

Today:

  • Followed up w/ Marek re: Qubes partnership & Pinged re: current funding situation
  • Co-working session w/ Nina and Allie, providing Nina w/ FPF Qubes laptop & Tails stick; Qubes & Tails orientation
  • Iteration on Nina's export messaging proposal (thanks Jen for Slack feedback)

Blockers or Asks: None

Jen

Yesterday:

  • patched SF server
  • intel advisory analysis (in https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/4992), text is pretty good from my perspective
  • regarding securedrop-sdk 0.0.12, i approved kushal's PRs for that after testing the client in qubes with that version of the SDK, all is working well
  • rebuilt a nightly - now the very latest nightly should work against the SF server - this has the fix for the bug where the main window would not launch

Today:

  • otherwise i've been setting up an sd-log appvm with kushal's logging service, and will be focusing on log related stuff for the next day

Blockers or Asks:

  • none

John

Yesterday:

  • persistent attachment, at least, merged
  • auto attach now close, if udev is the approach

Today:

Blockers or Asks:

  • None

Kev

Yesterday:

  • Reworking slides for demo deck

Today:

  • Support
  • TOTP ticket xfail issue
  • Rebasing builder update test PR
  • Administrivia

Blockers or Asks: None

Kushal

Today:

Tomorrow:

  • More PR review + looking at the board for next issue

Blockers or Asks:

  • None

Mickael

Yesterday:

  • Reviewed John's persistent attachment PR
  • Work on advisory draft w/ Jen
  • Merged PR for removing persistent attachment Today:
  • Take on next sprint task
  • Open ticket to update workstation kernels

Blockers or Asks: None

Ro

Yesterday:

  • Support
  • Docs

Today:

  • Testing Yubikey functionality in Tails 4
  • Other docs updates
  • Address Kev's PR comments

Blockers or Asks: None

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