Standup Notes 2020 04 15

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

Topics and Call-outs

• SecureDrop 1.3.0

  • Kernel update: merged
  • Key cache for SecureDrop Workstation: merged
  • Tor update: merged
  • Tor language/UX tweaks: WIP - https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5116
  • OSSEC update: WIP - needs pax flags for its executables, adding those in postinst
  • Ansible update: not started, John will aim to start today or tomorrow

• SecureDrop Client 0.2.0

  • Reduce timeout errors: merged
  • Gracefully handle missing submission key: WIP - https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1059
  • Don't cut off long strings / makes messages/replies selectable: WIP - https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1050
  • Mitigate deletion crashers: not started

Allie

Yesterday: PTO

Today:

• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1059 if ready
• text selectability/word wrap PR

Blockers or Asks: None

Conor

Yesterday:

• Partial pilot install
• Reviewed & merged gentle sys-usb reboot https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/532

Today:

• Salt updater research, understanding the "failed to return clean data" problem

Blockers or Asks:

• Erik: holler when copy/paste tags PR is ready for review

Erik

Yesterday:

• Tested Ro's Tor UI updates for SecureDrop 1.3.0, left some comments
• Tested Kushal/Allie's PR for making text selectable & wrapping unbroken lines
• Initial follow-up to existing PRs for copy/paste, VM polling, single-stage updater
• Pilot comms

Today:

• More of above, focusing on getting VM polling (should help resolve libxenlight issue) & copy/paste changes in

Blockers or Asks: None

Jen

Yesterday:

• chatted with john about 140, we found some fun things in the PM about what we decided in the AM, will let him update about that
• discovered our newer signing process wont work for HTTPSE, updated docs and am half way through that

Today:

• reading about covid tracking O:-)
• for reals hopefully getting my HTTPSE stuff to a good stopping point (branch is pushed)
• can help with 140 review as needed

Blockers or Asks:

• none

John

Yesterday:

• Almost got #140 caching done, found that db will work better because of GUI

Today:

• Finishing #140

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Kev

Yesterday:

• all OSSEC, all the time

Today:

• submit OSSEC PR with paxctld changes
• submit SDW docs installation troubleshooting PR
• final review/merge of core qa_loader.py PR

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Kushal

Today:

• Approved and merged https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1058
• Tested and approved https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5174
• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1050 -- started going through the points raised by Erik

Tomorrow:

• whatever comes

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Mickael

Yesterday:

• reviewed https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/534 (reboot polling PR)

• merged https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5192 (tor package test update)

• Opened:

  • https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/5194 (test+develop requirements)
  • https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/5195 (track encryption key FP)
  • https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/5193 reboot issues, likely fixed by https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/4366

Today: - Reviews as required (prioritizing securedrop 1.3 release) - some non-sd work

Blockers or Asks:

Ro

Yesterday:

• Support tasks + meetings, some OOB correspondence
• DST comms + a new client next week, yay
• Small tasks (review Nina's Qubes clipboard oopsies doc, Qubes BIOS thunderbolt stuff, Qubes backup/restore VMs stuff, review provisioning checklist)
• Install debrief

Today:

• Support comms
• Incorporate Erik's comments on Tor new identity issue, will work on right after standup
• Writing tasks after that depending on time

Blockers or Asks: