Standup Notes 2020 04 23

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

Topics and Call-outs

SecureDrop 1.3.0:

• Ansible PR: approved by Mickael
• Branch cut/QA kick-off time after merge!
• Reminder: Test plan & QA responsibilities review tomorrow
• Note: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5110 is being poked at but is for 1.4.0

SecureDrop Client

• Submission Key Error Handling PR: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1059 - under review
• Erik: want to do a final pass on UX/messaging w/ Nina; noticed potential migration issue during testing

SecureDrop Workstation:

• Docs PR for Copy & Paste ready for review: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation-docs/pull/35

Reminder: Internal UX mtg after standup

Allie

Yesterday:

• Reviewed John's submission key error handling PR; approved it
• Continued review of #1050, investigating Qt stylesheet handling issue

Today:

• SecureQLabel word wrapping
• Have an open branch that changes stylesheet handling for stability, will open PR for that today
• Jen had good idea for moving test strings into create-devdata
• Review RM docs

Blockers or Asks: None

Conor

Yesterday:

• Collab on Ansible upgrade SD core PR

Today:

• Possibly pilot install meeting, else tomorrow
• Mostly non-SD work today

Blockers or Asks:

Erik

Yesterday:

• Sprint planning and associated follow-up
• Discussion re: custom feature development (more on that later today)
• Updated/expanded copy & paste docs
• Poked at John's PR for #140

Today:

• UX/messaging review of error handling PR for missing submission keys w/ Nina
• Work on SD portion of new grant proposal
• Poke at some docs PRs on the sprint (will self-assign)

Blockers or Asks: None right now

Jen

Yesterday:

• oh yeah we had a lot of meetings
• Looked at the segfault issue, put up a pr for that

Today:

• Disabled the context menus for now since we have basic copy/paste working
• Did some functional test cleanup that i've had on my list for a bit to migrate to pytest fixtures, no particular rush on that. looked for a bit at the whole core dump situation but i'm stopping there on messing with the functional tests for now.
• This afternoon is very meetingful
• EOD I'll prolly catch up and see where folks are at before signing off (e.g. where M is at with the httpse stuff)

Blockers or Asks:

• None

John

Yesterday:

• Ansible hell

Today:

• Rescued from Ansible hell by Conor, so wrapping that up
• Fixing #140 migration

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Kev

Yesterday:

• client mtgs
• start on 1.3.0 administrivia

Today:

• continue on 1.3.0, install

Blockers or Asks:

Kushal

Today:

• Approved and merged https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1065 (disabling context menu in the replies and messages)
• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5110 updates is in this comment https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5110#issuecomment-618440112
• Tried again for text wrapping, one comment from a pyside developer: "kushal: Do you have a chance to break the text into syllables beforehand, or should that work for just any text? In the latter case, you are reaching directly into artificial intelligence, I fear :)"

Tomorrow:

• picking up things from today Blockers or Asks:
• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5110#issuecomment-618440112

Mickael

Yesterday:

• Ansible PR review
• non-SD work
• Started on httpse rule update

Today:

• more work on httpse rule update
• review copy paste docs
• help with release tasks/QA (if required) Blockers or Asks:
• none

Ro

Yesterday:

• Support tasks
• many meetings (notes are in wire/confluence)
• writing (it's going well)

Today:

• support comms ,writing
• prod provisioning with kev this afternoon
• writing if time?

Blockers or Asks:

• light ask: may try to schedule something with Mickael at some point to review my part of report so far