Standup Notes 2019 02 26

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

Topics and Call-outs

Release tasks:

• New issue: haveged running unconfined until reboot -> Aiming for rolling fix into 0.12.0 after additional testing
• Conor: run order of service bounces is very important -- will make note in ticket

i18n update: A few translations got in at the last moment. Weblate is being flaky, throwing up captchas left and right. Mike is investigating.

• 0.11.1->0.12.0 upgrade docs still needs to be reviewed and merged: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/4182

• Concurrent with release:

  • http://securedrop.org/xenial-upgrade will need to be updated
  • Version string docs update: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/4174

• Wireless packages issue -> Conor: no risk to prod instances given kernel situation -> Jen: agreed, should be addressed in point release

Allie

Yesterday:

• worked on https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/251 (killing gpg-agents when Qt application closes)
• worked w deeplow on test for scroll bug
• looked into https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/236 (QXcbConnection error)
• responded to heartsucker's pr comments for https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/250

Today:

• continuing to work on Qt window/application management https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/251 and https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/236
• review heartsucker's latest commentts on #250

Blockers:

• none

Conor

Yesterday:

• Updated Nagios platform checks (Trusty/Xenial), will deploy today
• Began analysis of wifi packages, walking dependencies on task selection in bento images. No clear inclusion found yet, will resume likely tomorrow.

Today:

• Standing by to pull release levers in coordination with Jen

Blockers:

Emmanuel

Yesterday: Client reachout and Confluence internal documentation

Today: Continuing the above

Blockers: None.

Erik

Yesterday:

• Release messaging (needs sanity check)
• Support follow-up re: Xenial; added all key dates to "Support" calendar

Today:

• Roll out release messaging at the appropriate time
• More docs changes as needed

Blockers:

Need review on release messaging - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uPTzg55gqj9EePgYEZeS7YotrKKe07bv4IIWgKuU5O8/edit - and docs PRs

Heartsucker

Today: I can cut the release and video in for the whole process, depends on how late it's going to be

Tomorrow: Jumping back in for client stuff, but also prototypefund presentation, so we'll see if I get coding done

Blockers:

Jen

Yesterday:

• Reviewed/merged changes needed in 0.12.0
• Added regression test to required i18n_tool.py changes: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/4193

Today:

• merge last haveged fix
• Review translations
• Review docs
• Review release announcement
• Release 0.12.0

Blockers:

• Waiting on translation PR
• If people can help review docs that would be great

John

Yesterday:

• Ran into trouble with the hw Trusty->Xenial test; neither my NUCs' internal NICs nor the USB adapters I got work under Trusty

Today:

• More of the same.

Blockers:

• None

Kev

Yesterday:

• Ran through cron-apt 0.12.0 update on NUCs
• Proceeded with do-release-upgrade testing on the same hardware

Today:

• Support tasks
• Final testing for upgrade-in-place scenario
• Release support tasks

Blockers:

Kushal

Today:

• Re-tested the whole docs PR about upgrade-in-place, merged and created backport PR
• Talked to localization lab team, get friends to help out with Hindi, German and other languages
• Update translations PR

Tomorrow:

• Peer review, back to writing code maybe :)

Blockers: Weblate fun

Mickael

Yesterday:

• Backported some PRs
• Added docs fix for apt vulnerability
• Non-SD stuff

Today:

• Can look at haveged restart issue

Blockers: None