Sprint Planning Meeting 2018 12 12

Sprint Planning Meeting, SecureDrop, December 12, 2018

Sprint timeframe: Beginning of Day (PDT) 2018-12-12 to End of Day (PDT) 2018-12-21

0) Board review / mini retro

https://github.com/orgs/freedomofpress/projects/1

Release:

Weblate stability was an issue, will hopefully be sorted by next time (infra team investigating root cause)
Should avoid merging translations day of, pushed schedule to too late in the release
Action for future: If we add supported language, do so in week 1 of the QA period

Comms:

Kev: Maybe dedicated release comms channel?
Jen/Kushal: Let's use Gitter more systematically, ensure we @ each other for release comms.
Erik: If it becomes an issue we can revisit.

TBB:

Kushal: I tried to use TBB branch against external sources
Jen: TBB and Selenium do not work well together?
Kev: Have some work in branch to get that working again

1) Review important dates and time commitments

2018-12-10 to 2018-12-13: Conference: Mike at Kubecon
2018-12-17 to 2018-12-18: PTO: Jen
2018-12-21              : PTO: Erik, Conor, Kev, Jen (since everyone is doing it)

After sprint period:

2018-12-24 to 2019-01-01: FPF holiday break. 
                          In case of technical emergencies, please contact 
                          securedrop (at) freedom (dot) press, which we'll check intermittently.

2019-01-02 to 2019-01-08: Sprint-free period.
                          During this time, we will use a Kanban workflow on the existing board.
2019-01-15              : Kick-off two-week QA period for SecureDrop 0.12.0.
                          Release may be skipped if there are insufficient changes.

Time check:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16OQ9PbLtfMU71syMe5Dm8Sg85OIjtAXTkuEu-o989Ag/edit#gid=0

2) Agree on must-achieve sprint goals:

Continued progress towards Xenial migration
Unblock progress towards reply feature, bugfixes in client

3) Task selection and estimation

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Onzy2Fx2LYwhHiyHlUyFKX_4dzeU-ci1amFw2yBjyQE/edit#gid=0

4) Mini-Standup

(asnyc update)

Conor

Yesterday: Release day! More research on Weblate problems. Revised iptables PR, ready for review.

Today: Mostly admin/ops tasks, little SD progress today. Starting to plan further eval of Weblate problems (standing up sandbox to poke at a non-prod config).

Blockers: None

Erik

Yesterday:

Release, sprint planning prep, hiring

Today:

Sprint planning & follow-up, hiring

Blockers:

None

Heartsucker

Yesterday:

Qt actors / concurrency

Today:

idk probably more actors stuff?

Blockers:

It would be nice to be sure we have some consensus on how the internals of the app should look before we attack it

Jaysinh:

Busy with tasks by employer. Not working today.

Jen

Yesterday: Release fun

Today: wall to wall hiring meetings after sprint planning :-) BUT hopefully soon we'll have a new full time SecureDrop person!