Standup Notes 2020 01 27

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

Topics and Call-outs

• Pilot scheduling

  • Tentative hold in week of Feb 24 for first provisioning, aiming to finalize schedule ASAP
  • Draft list of critical (must-resolve) issues: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dP5PMNg7I95iBnf7WRA_7p6MqgkpE3lnbIC7w_hwQiE/edit#gid=0
  • Pls review above ^^, nominate issues to Jen or Erik
  • Feasibility of this list determines schedule hold

Allie

Yesterday:

• Reviewed client PRs
• Submitted PR that removes the user-initiated sync and shows new icon animation instead of refresh button (just need to udpdate test)
• Submitted PR that updates the File download icon
• Continued investigating issue with new export dialogs flashing incorrect screens in between steps and adjustSize not resizing the window correctly

Today:

• Continue to test and review client PRs
• Respond to review comments for a couple of my own PRs that remove sync_api calls from handlers
• Add and update tests for PR that replaces user-initiated sync with non-interactive sync animation
• Try to wrap everything in a single widget per step to fix export dialog issue
• Create fix or workaround for cupsenable issue

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Conor

At conference

Erik

Yesterday: (Friday)

• Got Nina's workstation back up and running
• Added lockfile handling to security update notifier PR & worked w/ Jen & Mickael to finalize behavior spec: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cCpcpLRiKC0tm_vsD4k4Q1Fr5_R34htCb8FNTV8mRCI/edit#

Today:

• Cont'd work on https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/389 with @pierwill
• Network troubleshooting docs

Blockers or Asks: Pls review critical issues spreadsheet

Jen

At conference

John

Yesterday:

• client download/file handling

Today:

• finishing client download/file handling
• review (hopefully final) of rsyslog
• hoping to get to another client metadata performance improvement

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Kev

Yesterday: (Friday)

• QA docs for workstation
• Explored QA tooling options

Today:

• Modify securedrop-admin restore to aid with QA of existing instance
• Molecule scenario for using this tooling
• File issues for the above
• Re-review DrG PR

Blockers or Asks: None

Kushal

Today:

• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-debian-packaging/pull/133 rebased and pushed with changes
• Reviewed and merged https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-debian-packaging/pull/134/
• Reviewed and merged https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/730
• Reveiwed and merged https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-proxy/pull/62
• Updated https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-log/pull/8 with latest wheel sha256sum and other related changes
• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-export/pull/47 Updated with current style of logging for rsyslog Tomorrow:

• Work based on feedback Blockers or Asks:

• None

Mickael

Yesterday:

Today:

• split dev/prod logic for make all
• review securedrop-log PR

Blockers or Asks: None

Nicholas

• Today: *

  • Addressed feedback and rebased ready for review on PRs #715, #415, #688. Thanks for the helpful feedback folks..!
  • Created PR #733 (a work in progress, please add discussion there -- cc especially Jen/Kushal/Allie/John/Erik) to address the unresponsive UI issue (#716) which feels like a can'o'worms. John has already made a great HTTP related suggestion on Slack
  • Almost fineshed addressing #726 (loss of focus on reply text area after a sync). Has taken a bit of unpicking to find a simple solution, but almost there. Just adding a couple of tests to resolve coverage complaints.

• Blockers or Asks:*

  • No blockers
  • Feedback / ideas on #733

Nina

Traveling

Ro

Yesterday: (Friday)

• sdws docs + debugging my workstation issues (thanks john, mickael, conor!)
• test plan meeting with Kev & feedback on additional test scenarios (mostly regarding expected behaviour reflected in Journalist Interface)

Today:

• Very quick docs PR review from @pierwill
• Updated Ubuntu key fingerprint PR (https://github.com/rocodes/securedrop/tree/5082-docs-ubuntu-keyserver ) based on Mickael's comments (note that it was already backported/merged - oops)
• DST standup/weekly triage
• Comms catch-up/stale Redine ticket cleanup
• SD workstation docs - sprint tomorrow in-person with Kev planned

Blockers or Asks: