Standup Notes 2020 06 29

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

Topics and Call-outs

• Happy 9th birthday, SecureDrop! <3

• SD Workstation kernel check-in

  • Kev bumping version, Mickael will review when ready

• SecureDrop Workstation RPM RC

  • Erik to prepare, Conor to review

• Release key update in base template: https://github.com/freedomofpress/qubes-template-securedrop-workstation/pull/12

  • build artifact will land in dev RPM LFS repo

• Disconnected submission handling: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5345

• Removing older debs from https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-debian-packages-lfs

  • Erik to add README note

• The NUC8s, or at least certain models, do not support ethernet connectivity on Ubuntu 16 LTS [see Wire]

Allie

Yesterday:

• Met with Erik and Nina to help with review of https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1103
• Reviewed https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1049 and would like to help with the rebase and add/fix tests today
• Learning time spent on Framer X and prototyping

Today:

• Meet with Nina to sync up about prototyping tools
• Get https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1049 ready for review

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Conor

Yesterday:

• Reviewed and merged post-release docs PRs
• Started review on new Workstation template PR

Today:

• Final review of new Workstation template PR
• Potential review of dom0-config rc PR
• Potential review of Workstation RPM dev PR (we can promote same artifact to prod)

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Erik

Yesterday: (Friday)

• Reviewed https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1103 with Nina, looks good from a UX perspective
• More Qt4 learning

Today:

• SecureDrop fundraising planning
• Misc. administrivia (contract renewals, support follow-up, etc.)
• Some SD workstation docs follow-up, test latest/stable tagging approach

Blockers or Asks: None

John

Yesterday:

• Reviews
• Trying to induce Ansible timeouts, failing 'cause Tor weather was nice?
• defected from cryptopals to spend learning time on looking into Weblate screenshot automation

Today:

• Final review of https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5345

• review #1103, #5224

• Might like to spend more time on Weblate/translation investigations

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Kev

Yesterday: (Friday)

• Update box PR

Today:

• Rebuild workstation kernel
• Ubuntu upgrade research

Blockers or Asks: None

Kushal

Today:

• Updated the code and data for https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-https-everywhere-ruleset/pull/7 bassed on feedback
• Updated code for https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5224
  • kicked CI twice, now all green I think
• Reviewed https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5300 with code suggestion
• Reviewed https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5284
  • but then github went down
  • I will comment my review after dinner Tomorrow:

• Taking emergency PTO Blockers or Asks:

• None

Mickael

Yesterday:

• Template build logic update: https://github.com/freedomofpress/qubes-template-securedrop-workstation/pull/12
• Reviewed/merged upgrade boxes https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5329/

Today:

• Template pr/release to dev repo
• HTTPE rules update Blockers or Asks:
• None

Nina

Yesterday:

Today:

Blockers or Asks:

Ro

Yesterday:

• 1:1s
• Support comms, SD comms with new instance
• docs PR
• outreach to facilitator

Today:

• Scheduling SD meetings/post-weekend comms catchup
• DST meetings
• light GPG/yubikey troubleshooting w/ Ryan
• Sprint task backlog

Blockers or Asks: