Standup Notes 2021 01 28

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

Topics and Call-outs

1.7.1

• Hotfix PR into release branch https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5760 was not merged yet, Conor will handle

v3 issues

• Update from Roger: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/network-health/2021-January/000661.html
• No changes on SecureDrop servers required as of yet; if we do need to push out a Tor release, we can do so independently of SecureDrop

Release follow-up

• Retro scheduled for Monday, please add further thoughts to doc before then as well

New Tails release

• Erik will bump on social media

Allie

Yesterday:

• Reviewed Security Assessment
• Office arrangment stuff (making space for hardware and easy switching for QA)
• Account and email management

Today:

• ToB Debrief
• Wrap up docs PR: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-docs/pull/137
• Go back to client land

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Conor

Yesterday:

• Released 1.7.1

Today:

• PR review, merging release PR from yesterday:
• PR review, qubes staging tests: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5712
• PR review, upgrade boxes: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5763

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Erik

Yesterday:

• 1.7.1 comms
• Catch up w/ Nina and Mickael on UX priorities

Today:

• Audit debrief & associated follow-up
• Working w/ Nina to get her workstation back up and running
• Support call & back to technical work as time permits

Blockers or Asks: None

John

Yesterday:

• 1.7.1

Today:

• meetingful
• getting back to Focal hardware testing
• reviews

Blockers or Asks: None

Kev

Yesterday: 1.7.1

Today:

• Follow-up on 1.7.1
• Audit review
• Support call
• PR reviews as time permits

Blockers or Asks: None

Kushal

Time off

Mickael

Yesterday:

• ux discussion, safe deletion meeting scheduled for monday
• audit review prep
• some release tasks this morning Today:
• meetings
• hardware issues for testing focal, but will resolve and do next
• audit follow up after the meeting

Blockers or Asks:

• none

Nina

Yesterday:

• Met w/ Erik/Mickael to discuss general SD UX priorities & SafeDelete delivery
• CSS hackin' with existing JI (<3 the demo instance!)
• A few more pokes at Safe Delete delivery guide (for Kev, and for delivery team to use Mon for prioritization workshop)
• 5h total

Today:

• Workstation re-install w/ Erik, woo!
• Qubes app menu user testing prep (non-FPF)
• Friday = Client Safe Delete

Blockers or Asks:

• Safe Delete delivery guide: Current status = firehose, but John, Mickael, Kev, some acquainting with it will be good for Monday's prioritization workshop: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XT-hQej462e9NtQn08MW0aFkK_exSlpKYY2A2JJGuEs/edit?usp=sharing

Ro

Yesterday:

• support comms, QA, 1/2 day Today:
• Meetings (Prospective SD org/current SD clients/internal)
• Comms
• onion stats if time
• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5712 review? Blockers or Asks:
• none