Standup Notes 2019 12 18

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

Topics and Call-outs

• workstation v2/v3 discussion (from yesterday)

  • Let's not block pilot news orgs - we can keep our options open for on-site assistance
  • Add deprecation warnings to SD core post 1.3.0

• Knowledge Share: securedrop-log

Allie

Yesterday:

• Worked on printer preflight checks
• Rewrote the description of how we move MetadataSyncJob out of main queue, appreciate input: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/652
• Found issue w/ queue management

Today:

• Review https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-export/pull/41
• Make printer preflight check PR
• Happy to help w/ AppArmor changes
• Found issue w/ queue management - want to work on that, make sure we sync whenever a sync job enters the queue
• Discuss syncs with the team

Blockers or Asks: None

Conor

Yesterday:

• minor apt-test valid-until work

*Today:

• Kernel packaging changes: freedomofpress/securedrop-debian-packaging#116
• Image (meta)packages: freedomofpress/securedrop-dev-packages-lfs#30
• (based on the above): submit 2 PR(s) for valid-until apt-test logic:
  • dev-lfs package repo (distribution metadata)
  • infrastructure cron/CD logic

Blockers or Asks: None

Erik

Yesterday:

• Hiring & support
• Issues review, wrote up proposed next steps on
  • sync behavior: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/343#issuecomment-566767019 - will discuss w/ Nina today -/generate PR UX follow-up: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/5080
  • rename operation (TK)

Today:

• More of ^^

Blockers or Asks: Input on the above issues appreciated

Jen

Yesterday: finished sdexport refactor, up for review

Today:

securedrop-log knowledge share! will catch up and comment on: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/652 and the angle brackets issue

Reviews in my queue:

• securedrop-proxy PR by john
• securedrop-workstation tor v3 PR by kushal
• maybe others as they come in

then next picking up either entropy checks in core OR rpm packaging

Blockers or Asks: None

John

Yesterday:

• still fixing proxy

Today:

• looking at https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/379
• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/402 if I can beat Allie to it

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Kev

Yesterday:

• Merged LGTM PR
• Merged user-offboarding docs 🎉

Today:

• Testing reboot logic in securedrop-admin install playbook
• Re-reviewing /generate PR, confirmation flash PR

Blockers or Asks: None

Kushal

Today:

• Reviewing https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-debian-packaging/pull/112 (dh-virtualenv improvements for client)
• Started reviewing https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-proxy/pull/53 (commented my findings)
• commented on * https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-debian-packaging/pull/105 Mickael already made the changes
• Started reviewing https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/666
• Reading client code for https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/659 , commented about my finding
• securedrop-log demo

Tomorrow:

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Mickael

Yesterday:

• Made requested changes for AppArmor PR(s)

Today:

• Logging review
• Help with AppArmor review

Blockers or Asks: None

Nicholas

• Today:*

• Setting up Qubes as a test/dev env. Still ongoing.

• Tomorrow:*

• Continue with Qubes setup, but will tackle ticket #415 no matter what Qubes state.

• Blockers*

• None