Standup Notes 2020 05 19

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

Topics and Call-outs

• SecureDrop Workstation RPM release update
  • versioning. Mickael/Conor have been investigating best approach. Consensus among Conor/Mickael/Kushal/John towards the approach in https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/554 . Post-merge, new RC1 package will be built and uploaded.
  • Mickael and/or Conor will build RC1

Persistent CI flake in SD core: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/5271

• Support Sync: yes
• Client Sync: no (Allie PTO)

Allie

PTO

Conor

Yesterday:

• SDW RPM versioning extravaganza, see PR https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/554

Today:

• First spike on F31 transition, see PR https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/555 (I believe we'll need a separate round of changes/testing for staging/prod, the above only tested for "dev")

Blockers or Asks:

• Eager to get SDW RPM 0.3.0-rc1 on yum-test, ping for eyes to unblock

Erik

Yesterday:

• Switched Qubes staging env over to 1.3.0 and used QA loader for importing bulk data for testing; small docs update based on my setup experience
• Further fleshing out of test plan on https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/wiki/Workstation-Beta-Acceptance-Tests#release-specific-test-plans
• Reviewed Allie's post-release docs update

Today:

• Prep for sprint planning tomorrow
• Final tweaks to test plan & test upgrade path as soon as RPM is available
• Re-test Redmine 4 PGP integration after recent fixes

Blockers or Asks: None

Jen

Yesterday: PTO

Today:

• Just finishing test fixes on securedrop-client/pull/975, then will repush and I think this will be ready
• Then looking at John's deletion PR in server: #5257

Blockers or Asks:

• None

John

Yesterday:

• Reviews
• Looking at CI func test failures, no resolution
• Fighting and cursing Qubes when it was in fact DNS

Today:

• Been looking at https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/990
  • is possible to attach devices at sd-devices start (via qubes admin extension) but it's invasive, may affect other VM attachments
• More investigation of CI failures
• Reviews of versioning/Fedora changes if still needed?
  • more eyes on fedora-31 changes appreciated: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/555

Blockers or Asks:

• None, just need to coordinate reviews

Kev

Yesterday:

Today:

• Email & comms, post-release close-out tasks
• Sprint tasks

Blockers or Asks: None

Kushal

Training week

Mickael

Yesterday:

• Holiday yesterday
• comment/preliminary review of https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/issues/540#issuecomment-630879950
• Added docs for QA
• Draft upgrade testing docs in https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/wiki/Workstation-dom0-QA-testing
  • There are quite a few commands to type, we could create a makefile target "update-package-sources" (without changing explicitly the environment key. This would need to make it's way into 0.3.0-rc1 for us to be able to use it after the 0.3.0 release.

Today:

• Review 554
• Release 0.3.0-rc1

Blockers or Asks: None

Nina

Yesterday:

• Qubes things
• Began SD.org logo stuff
• UxR consent form & ops things

Today:

• Finish website logo stuff
• Support sync
• UxR synthesis things & Pilot UxR ops things
• Qubes funding things

Blockers or Asks: None right now

Ro

Today:

• Icinga cleanup of unacknowledged downtime
• misc support correspondence
• workstation provisioning
• looking at https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/1084 with an eye to documentation if time

Blockers or Asks:

• have not yet connected with Allie re: above-mentioned 1084, which is on this sprint; it may be a tomorrow/later this week thing since Allie is off today