Standup Notes 2020 03 10

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

Topics and Call-outs

Workstation release check-in

• Ongoing testing of securedrop-admin changes & unrelated sd-whonix regression fix

• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/issues/492 may also be a blocker for the release, TBD

• Jen and Kev will continue to collab on release, Kev is reviewing client release

• QA responsibilities

Prioritizing remaining blockers

Reminder: SD Support Sync happening to discuss pending on-sites & COVID-19 impact

Allie

Yesterday:

• Reported 3 new issues, one crasher on source selection, alread fixed
• Messages get stuck in skeleton mode with a lot of clicking: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/896
• Reviewed Nick's PR for UI blocking issue
• Tested PR that no longer re-creates all widgets, significantly improves performance on each sync - responded to comments

Today:

• PR review and follow-up

Blockers or Asks: None

Conor

Yesterday:

• Partial review of https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/489 (dev scenario only)
• Addressed review comments for https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/487 (log fixes)

Today:

• Release coord where required
• Fresh look at consolidation strategy, in prep for mtg tmrw

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Erik

Yesterday:

• SD support & pilot comms
• Review of UX issues w/ Nina, helping her apply updates workaround
• UI and error messages audit; submitted PR for client message fixes https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/903

Today:

• SD support & pilot comms
• May update prod install and do some QA if time allows

Blockers or Asks: Pls come to support sync (again)

Jen

Yesterday:

• Finished bugfixes for some of the crashers in deletion scenarios (thanks Allie for review/merge), been leaving the client up and doing deletions in Qubes on master. Currently I'm only seeing the ghost issue routinely, if you see any crashes at all after this latest release please get loud
• Reviewed the two SourceList changes that are incoming O:-)
• started release bits

Today:

• more release bits
• out in afternoon for a bit, back in evening
• workin on deletion security issue

Blockers or Asks:

• none

John

PTO

Kev

Yesterday:

• Reviewed #489 on prod
• Support work & call Today:
• Continue on above, release

Blockers or Asks: None

Kushal

PTO

Mickael

Yesterday:

• #489
• Reviewed Conor's PR for sd-log

Today:

• #489

Blockers or Asks: None

Nicholas

• Today: *

  • Made progress on #870 (source list non-blocking update). Jen has provided feedback on that and a bug in this work in progress. Will investigate further tomorrow.
  • Further progress on #894 (message to display to user when no source is selected). I'm showing changes / progress in the comments on that ticket. Still work to be done. Expect to finish this afternoon (in about 1hr).

• Blockers or Asks: *

  • None

Nina

Yesterday:

Today:

• Poking at latest version of client
• Drafting intake survey for pilot

Blockers or Asks: None

Ro

On-site