Standup Notes 2020 09 02

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

Topics and Call-outs

setuptools issue

• Any follow-up required?
  • John to investigate whether Bionic package is usable on Xenial
  • Yeah, there is at least one potentially-breaking change in the dh-virtualenv product: the venv's activate script doesn't get updated to the prod venv path
  • If we stick with 1.2.1, see changelog here: https://dh-virtualenv.readthedocs.io/en/1.2.1/changes.html

1.6.0 release schedule

• To give ourselves sufficient time to land server-side changes for seen/unseen, proposing to push release to October 6
• Currently no other major changes on milestone

Design review at 10:00 PT / 1:00 ET

• Reviewing polish suggestions for source list; options for offline mode display of seen/unseen status

Allie

Yesterday:

• Reviewed https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/605 seems like the new sd-workstation config package is not getting copied into /opt which Mickael is looking at today
• Threat modelling discussion
• Planned work for seen/unseen with Erik and Mickael
• Updated https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/wiki/Architecture#specs

Today:

• Once CI is fixed, get the SDK PR merged and ready for release so we can merge the client PRs
• Benchmark sync and local storage update with 600 sources and document it so that we can use it for helping us decide how to design the API for optimized performance: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/wiki/Scalability-&-Performance
• Continue to review https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/605
• Respond to Kushal's PR review for the SDK readme

Blockers or Asks: None

Conor

Yesterday:

• Review of setuptools fixes, merged https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5472
• Responded to Kev's comments on dev RPM PR, ready-for-review

Today:

• Re-review of focal packaging changes https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5465 (already rebased, thank you Kushal!)

Blockers or Asks:

• Kev: take another look at dev RPM when you have a moment

Erik

Yesterday:

• Worked w/ Allie & Mickael to draft server-side issues for seen/unseen. (For now keeping "opened by" out of scope)
• Final bits of review on Joan's docs PR
• Contract fun

Today:

• More contract fun & non-SD work
• Sprint prep for tomorrow

Blockers or Asks: None

Joan

Yesterday:

• PR follow-up

Today:

• PR follow-up
• Learning about git filter-repo as part of work on standalone docs repo

Blockers or Asks: None

John

Yesterday:

• paying our tithe to pypa
• a couple of reviews

Today:

• chasing down remaining issues with app code packaging
• more reviews: workstation kernel conf test, journalist designation
• demo site

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Kev

Yesterday:

• RPM PR
• Onion name FAQ / guidelines review

Today:

• RPM PR
• Revise Onion name FAQ / guidelines review
• Testing on NUC10s

Blockers or Asks: None

Kushal

Today:

• rebased focal build PR
• reviewed and merged community PR https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5460
• Reviewed the README/test step pr on sdk
• started on make staging-focal

Tomorrow:

• make staging-focal

Blockers or Asks:

• none

Mickael

Yesterday:

• Meetings
• some work on template consolidation

Today:

• more template consolidation work
• sprint planning work w/erik
• pick something from review list

Blockers or Asks:

• none

Ro

(On leave until September 14)