Standup Notes 2019 08 22

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

Topics and Call-outs

• Preparing for Tails 4 -- scheduled for October 22

  • Will likely require manual upgrade
  • May need point release if there are compat issues
  • Password DB conversion

• qrexec discussion / templating strategies for Qubes RPC policies

  • https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/310

Allie

Yesterday:

• Reviewed qrexec policy PR
• Qubes debugging - replies no longer being encrypted/decrypted (might be an issue with switching from sd-dev to sd-dev-buster)
• A few client UI PRs merged yesterday that Jen reviewed: Conversation header, File widget, Resending replies

Today:

• Qubes debugging
• Cont'd work on export UI
• Follow-up on Jen's PR comments re: pausing the queue

Blockers or Asks: Working with Conor/Jen on decryption issue in Qubes

Conor

Yesterday:

• Reviewed and merged v3 Onion role PR 🎉
• Discussed Qubes RPC updates (https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/310 )

Today:

• Will submit requested change to tailsconfig v3 PR: update inventory-dynamic

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Erik

Yesterday:

• Sprint planning & associated follow-up
• Implement language selector design refresh
• Support & fundraising work

Today:

• Final tweaks to language selector
• Work on 1.0.0 messaging
• Support & fundraising work

Blockers or Asks: May ask for Kev's help with design review when he's back

Jen

Yesterday: / since last standup

• Finished testing john PR, all looks great
• Client PR review catch up
• Did some other small reviews in core, including session reset PR: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/4679
• Scoped/filed tickets for recent vulnerability alerts
• Made PR for postinst v3 securedrop-config clean up
• Investigated this v3 onion cert business, posted results on tickets

Today:

• Do test of queue pause behavior in Qubes (requires rebuilding my staging so might take a bit)
• Re-reviews as needed
• Else I'm going to pick up next ticket in v3 land: HTTPS ticket or Alt-Srv (if someone had their sights set on one of them I can pick the other)
• Some other funding related things

Blockers or Asks:

• None

John

Yesterday:

• Work on deletion PR, should be ready for re-review soon

Today:

• ^^
• Look at v3 PR

Blockers or Asks:

None

Kev

Yesterday:

Today:

• Catching up on support comms
• Rebased tailsconfig PR, awaiting Conor's change requests on that

Blockers or Asks: None

Kushal

Today:

• Added a fix and reviewed https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/4675 - but will dismiss review

Tomorrow:

• Will review https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/4690
• Next task from the sprint list

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Mickael

PTO