Standup Notes 2020 03 25

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

Topics and Call-outs

Release-critical issues: - https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/944 - blocked UI when there are many sources -- Jen/Allie reviewing - export issue : https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/992 -- Allie will work on - https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/issues/506 - printing problems for some images, esp. on Brother printer - John is investigating, issue seems to be Brother-specific, Kev will aid with investigation - Aiming for EOD release

Flagging for visibility: - https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/issues/498#issuecomment-603871973 - libxenlight issue

Allie

*Yesterday:*

• Created fixes for export dialogs
• Reviewed a handful of PRs

Today:

• Collaborate on #944, blocked UI
• "Cancelling export" issue (Low priority) maybe https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1002 (Low priority) maybe https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1003

Blockers or Asks: None

Conor

Yesterday:

• Creds setup for colleagues on shared hardware instance
• Observed failure during update of dom0, will re-test today

Today:

• More creds bootstrapping for colleagues
• Confirm successful dom0 update to mgmt-salt 4.0.9
• Investigate sd-log failing to start on test hardware (https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/issues/498)

Blockers or Asks:

• Time to remove salt workarounds f30 templates

Erik

Yesterday:

• Pilot comms
• Completed fresh prod workstation install with some hiccups (had to re-run "securedrop-admin --apply" a couple of times)
• Testing of completed install, follow-up on Nina's issues

Today:

• Get pilot intake survey ready
• More testing & docs

Blockers or Asks: Ro, let's coordinate on screenshots today

Jen

Yesterday:

• RPC policy review, looks good and updated test plan indicating this is done, filed a followup for further potential restrictions but nothing needs to be done immediately for this release
• tested and reviewed ExportDialog changes into securedrop-client

Today:

• tested dom0 update, all lgtm, commented on ticket
• did https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1002 (one of the fixes)
• ran through the bugs reported last night, most ive put on the "to do at some point during the beta" pile, but if anyone can repro any of the ones marked "needs/reproduction" then plz 2 comment
• helping get https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/944 over the finish line as needed with allie
• fingers crossed doing releases towards EOD, will ping folks who aren't involved with the install dry run to review as needed

Blockers or Asks:

• none

John

Yesterday:

• #969 - file size issue

Today:

• looking at the printer failures
• then reviews, backlog

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Kev

Yesterday:

• Revs to install docs

Today:

• Support comms
• Docs PR: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/510/files
• Help with printer issues
• Assist with workstation release if we get to it

Blockers or Asks: Coffee

Kushal

Today:

• Reviewed and merged https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/989 (buttons rearranging)
• Created https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1001 PR for adding flaky and also slowing down one functional test (thank you for the merge)
• Was trying to reproduce https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/issues/485 issue (got fixed on the upstream yum repo)
• Was stuck with system updates for https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/issues/506 (printer issues)

Tomorrow:

• if print requires help
• or else working on current functional tests and closed issues Blockers or Asks:
• None

Mickael

Yesterday:

• Install docs review
• Debugging printer issues

Today:

• Tested Qubes salt fix
• Docs PR for GPG verification
• Dry run with digisec team
• Comment on libxenlight issue
• May assist w/ release

Blockers or Asks: None

Nicholas

• Today

  • Rebased, fixed, debugged, checked and generally got #944 out of my hair. This was a right royal pain. Please check / review. Thank you..! :-)
  • Created PR #1003 (fix star hover state) to fix #986 and #985.

• Blockers / Asks

  • None
  • More on my todo please.
  • Last day tomorrow.

Ro

Yesterday:

• Meetings
• Remote DST/secure tip-line workflow meeting with news org from NICAR
• Support comms

Today:

• Boilerplate "do not send tips here" doc (thanks M, H, K for review!)
• Docs screenshots
• Encountered the libxenlight issue https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/issues/498, added logs
• Report-writing if time

Blockers or Asks:

• ask: Wagtail creds https://github.com/freedomofpress/infrastructure/issues/2474 - thanks Conor for quick attention :)