Standup Notes 2019 08 01

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

Topics and Call-outs

• Whonix-15/Buster transition

It's challenging to manage different Debian platforms for different VMs, as opposed to moving everything else to Buster

• Discussion of new Qubes developer workflow recommendations

Allie

Yesterday:

• Finished up UI work around backgrounds: fonts (to make it easier to say whether or not background text looks right), and borders (to make background look more seamless like the design), see https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/502 (and more to come!)
• Reviewed metadata archive doc

Today:

• Make sure all recent UI branches have PRs today
• Pausing the queue towards https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/391

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Conor

PTO

Erik

Yesterday:

• Getting UI refresh into Ready for Review state
• Continued on Transfer/Export Device docs work; ordered a USB w/ physical write switch for testing

Today:

• Getting Transfer/Export Device docs PR into Ready for Review State
• UI refresh follow-up as needed
• Maybe tackle off-sprint update of outdated Tails docs with bad code checkout instructions (no tag, no verification)

Blockers or Asks: None

Jen

Yesterday:

• Found & fixed issue w/ non-Qubes dev env
• Working on timeout ticket (scaling timeout based on file size)
• Discovered another issue: can't download and decrypt on master

Today:

• Continue to poke at that today
• Reviews
• Take initial pass at https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/4652/files
• (#1189 if time allows)

Blockers or Asks: None

John

Yesterday:

• Security issue #7

Today:

• Finish up ^^
• PR review

Blockers or Asks: None

Kev

PTO

Kushal

Today:

• Continued testing and working on the Onion services v3 branch (the branch is udpated).
• Yet to test ssh over Tor, but, the rest seems to be working well.

Tomorrow:

• Hopefully make the PR ready for review (have to figure out tests)
• securedrop-debian-packaging README pr update https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/298

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Mickael

Yesterday:

• Debug issues with workstation tests

Today:

• Looking into Whonix updates; sd-proxy does not currently work under Buster-based VMs
• Get https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-debian-packaging/pull/75 to ready for review
• Metadata follow-up

Blockers or Asks: None

Nina

Yesterday:

• Prep for UX mtg

Today:

• UX mtg notes
• Hiking!

Blockers or Asks:

Ro

Yesterday:

Today:

Blockers or Asks: