Standup Notes 2020 02 24

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

Topics and Call-outs

Reminder: Knowledge share about functional testing on Friday

Conor

Yesterday:

• mostly non-SD, onboarding prep

Today:

• Review prod workstation rpm packages:
• Review upgrade boxes PR
• Heads up, onboarding new staff member

Blockers or Asks:

• none

Erik

Yesterday: (Friday)

• Support & infra fun
• Started read-through of Qubes funding proposal, putting together some feedback

Today:

• More on ^^
• Follow-up on existing PRs: upgrader fix if needed, docs

Blockers or Asks: None

Jen

Yesterday:

friday - running through the initial prod/beta subcomponent releases, updating RM guide as needed, took most of the day

Today:

• 666 re-review since kushal reviwed and his testing went pretty well last week, hoping to merge if all is good since that's one of the bigger items to go in
• might start workin the RM guide into official docs somewhere... TBD

Blockers or Asks:

• none

John

Yesterday:

• Finishing upgrade boxes to close out 1.2.1

Today:

• SD core release management doc update
• reviewing Nick's bash script
• Client sprint issues
• Trying to reproduce device mapper warnings logged on sequential exports that Allie found last week

Blockers or Asks:

• a review of https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5136

Kev

Yesterday:

• racking new hardware for support purposes

Today:

• review sdw-updater PR
• more QA testing prep (loading datasets into staging/dev)
• review Jen's whitepaper

Blockers or Asks: None

Kushal

Time off

Mickael

Yesterday:

• Prod releases

Today:

• ^^, dom0 RPM, test prod flow
• Review Jen's whitepaper

Blockers or Asks: None

Nicholas

• Today: *

  • Continued working on the functional tests. Updated the PR to reflect my changes and progress. Further isolated the tests via a nifty bash script, added a shed load of new tests..!

• Blockers or Asks: *

  • No blockers
  • Could someone who is a bash wizard take a look at my StackOverflow inspired code? :-) All feedback most welcome. See comment therein for details of what the script does. It's called from the Makefile. https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/788/files#diff-0a5989747af6b1a9dfe3a2de2158f035

Ro

Yesterday:

• Support tasks
• Few meetings (DST, support, support/development)
• NICAR panel registration
• Support info package (cont'd) + quote prep/review Today:
• Landing page review
• Reading SDWS whitepaper
• Support info package cont'd
• SecureDrop Workstation Glossary cont'd

Blockers or Asks:

• None but note: Thursday PTO for unexpected medical appts