Standup Notes 2020 04 07

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

Topics and Call-outs

• SecureDrop Client (0.2.0)/SDK/Proxy Releases

  • Timeout changes
  • Gracefully handle lack of Submission Key - https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/140

• Client Sync: Let's talk more about message export + copy/paste

• Reminder: Support Sync happening today (and going forward, to touch base on pilot)

Allie

Yesterday:

• Staging fun :/, testing Kev's PR for swapping out datasets in staging env

Today:

• Review Kushal's word wrapping change
• Help with #140 as needed

Blockers or Asks:

• More discussion w/ Kev re: staging PR

Conor

Yesterday:

• Built new server kernels, opened PRs https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5188
• Revised SDW logging PR https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/523

Today:

• Follow-up test fixes on kernel PR
• Document new failure on libxenlight issue (template failed to start, with proc/xen mount)
• HTTPS-everywhere onion backend setup

Blockers or Asks:

• none

Erik

Yesterday:

• Pilot comms
• Testing on #522/#523 (libxenlight issue)
• Reviewed updater code, proposed implementation path for more automated updates: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/issues/478#issuecomment-610111931

Today:

• Continue on #478
• Pilot coordination

Blockers or Asks:

• Chat w/ Mickael re: #478

Jen

Yesterday: PTO

Today:

• catchin up
• looked at and commented on kushal's pyautogui testing PR with my thoughts
• some chatting with john on the caching stuff, will re review any changes later today, although i need to set aside some time for testing before approving (unless other folks have time they can run through the test plan and check the memory usage)
• 2 hours meetings
• after meetings/lunch, gonna start on either my wip PR from client land (there's two issues i need to figure out how to resolve), or the first HTTPSE URL task

Blockers or Asks:

• None, although I might steal someone for rubber ducking purposes if i don't come up with a bright idea on my wip PR

John

Yesterday:

• got stuck fixing my broken staging env

Today:

• create issue for gzip compression
• starting on submission key error handling, I swear

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Kev

Yesterday:

• Reviewed Deb packaging PR

Today:

• ^
• Poke more at staging PR based on Allie's feedback
• Docs work for using staging + datasets

Blockers or Asks: None

Kushal

Today:

• Fixed the PR https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/523 (I saw it was failing in CI)
• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1050 is for the https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/815 for SecureQLabel text wrap breakage in client
• Was digging into how do we handle different timeouts

Tomorrow:

• whatever is on the plate/sprint Blockers or Asks:
• None

Mickael

Yesterday:

• PTO

• Reviewed https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5188 (and associated PRs)

  • Kernels look good, issue appears to be with tests

  • We can merge the grsecurity pr (freedomofpress/ansible-role-grsecurity-build#57)

  • the deb lfs PR (freedomofpress/securedrop-dev-packages-lfs#37) should not be merged until we fix tests

Today:

• Help/re-review of https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5188 as required
• Prep for tomorrow
• Review https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/523

Blockers or Asks:

• Hardware testing coordination for kernels

Nina

Yesterday:

Today:

Blockers or Asks:

Ro

Yesterday:

• meetings (standup/DST)
• bit of prep for Qubes presentation
• small amount of report-writing

Today:

• support comms/keep clearing out old tickets
• Qubes training/prod provisioning delayed til Mon
• meetings + will be focused on writing report - distraction-free (I hope)

Blockers or Asks: None