Standup Notes 2020 06 30

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

Topics and Call-outs

• General updates

  • SD fundraising event in the works, potentially first week of August

  • SD now has a Mastodon account: https://fosstodon.org/@securedrop

  • Support sync agenda today: read/unread research update

• Kernel update check-in

• SD Workstation 0.4.0 RPM

  • Erik to prep test plan today

  • Allie/Conor to collaborate on building and uploading RPM to stagng

• Template status

  • Conor to file issue for cleaning up build logic to avoid breakage due to upstream changes

  • To unblock build, need to fix qubes image converter issue

Allie

Yesterday:

• Reviewed WIP PR to improve client responsiveness for conversations with a lot of message widgets
• Discovered preview bug: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/1121
• Nina shared read/unread research plan
• Read some docs about application state on Framer

Today:

• RPM build fun
• Respond to John's review comment for resolution securedrop-client PR
• Respond to Erik's review comment for test strings securedrop PR
• Finish reading read/unread research plan

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Conor

Yesterday:

• Much testing on the Workstation Template RPM PR (still not working)

Today:

• Review dom0-config PR and prep LFS rc packages - pairing with Allie https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/581
• Timebox spike to unblock TemplateVM build - open ticket, share with John https://github.com/freedomofpress/qubes-template-securedrop-workstation/pull/12
• Stretch goal: pin base box version (requirement before base box rebuild) https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/5294

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Erik

Yesterday:

• UX catch-up with Nina, review draft research plan for read/unread
• Salvaged old docs PR for contributor guidelines https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5350
• Opened RPM 0.4.0-rc1 PR https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/581

Today:

• Test plan for RPM 0.4.0
• SD Workstation docs work
• Prep for fundraising event

Blockers or Asks: None

John

Yesterday:

• Reviews

Today:

• Review https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-debian-packaging/pull/156 if Mickael hasn't worked on it?

  • Good one to poke at :)

• Maybe trying out https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5318, need to check in with Kev

• Or looking into Weblate screenshot automation

• Orrr ... trying Qubes 4.1? We had talked about that.

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Kev

Yesterday:

• tested do-release-upgrade process for Xenial->Bionic on VMs and NUC5s
• built new workstation kernel
• (non-SD mod stuff) Today:
• testing workstation kernel (gotta rebuild SDW first) and adding packages/PRs for the update.
• Revisting #5318 with John
• finalizing hardware ask for NUC{8,10} testing.

Blockers or Asks: None

Kushal

PTO

Mickael

Yesterday:

• Debugging template build
• Reviewed and signed HTTPSEverywhere ruleset update

Today:

• More template debugging ^^
• Merge ruleset update

Blockers or Asks: None

Nina

Yesterday:

Today:

Blockers or Asks:

Ro

Yesterday:

• Meetings + support comms
• Sprint tasks (https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/issues/120, securedrop #5299)

Today:

• Meetings + support comms
• check in on a few priority contracts
• Tails support issue
• Sprint tasks (#120)
• Possibly pairing with Olivia to assist re qubes split-gpg

Blockers or Asks:

• none