Standup Notes 2020 06 22

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

Topics and Call-outs

• Welcome Mickael as Lead Developer :-)

• Reminder: We're in Kanban mode until Wednesday

  • Let's get "Ready for review" / "Under review" count down
  • Pull from "Next up" column for new tasks

Kernel updates:

• Next step: update SecureDrop Workstation kernel to enable microcode fixes
• Kev to follow up on https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/565

Allie

Yesterday:

• Addressed Jen's review comments and plan to add additional regression tests but this can be re-reviewed: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1114
• Post release: reviewed Conor's backport of develop into release branch and opened a docs PR
• Opened https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5331 for pre-release docs

Today:

• Will add more docs PRs
• Regression tests for #1114

Blockers or Asks: None

Conor

Yesterday:

• Post-release 1.4.0 closeout tasks, backporting changelog & upgrade boxes

Today:

• Rebased upgrade boxes PR, that's ready for review now
• Initial review of pre-release docs PR https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5331

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Erik

Yesterday: (Thursday)

• Tech mtg re: future of SecureDrop admin experience (Tails vs. Qubes vs. ??)
• Reviewing/closing some old PRs
• Diving into dom0 Qt experience a bit more, to investigate issues with GUI scaling

Today:

• Sprint prep for Wednesday
• Assorted SD support follow-up
• Follow-up on read/unread feature planning as time permits

Blockers or Asks: None

John

PTO

Kev

Yesterday:

Today:

• Support comms
• Approved decommissioning docs PR
• Kernel update
• Back to testinfra

Blockers or Asks: None

Kushal

Today:

• Reviewed (after CI kick) and merged https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5328
• Reviewed https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5329
• Started reviewing https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1115
  Tomorrow:

• finish https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1115 Blockers or Asks:

• None

Mickael

Yesterday:

• Catch up on stuff as I return from PTO

Today:

• Review https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/528
• Help with kernels/testinfra as needed

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Ro

Yesterday:

Today:

• I pushed a (very much) draft PR re #5265 for visibility here: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5330; see related ask below
• I'm doing an investigative spike into Workstation backups today and tomorrow

Blockers or Asks: Could I possibly pair with someone for 15 minutes EOD (5pm ET onward) today, or some time tomorrow, to do a lightning-round of helping me understand the testinfra tests? ty :)