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Erik Moeller edited this page Mar 9, 2021 · 1 revision

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

Topics and Call-outs

1.8.0

  • unattended-upgrades recap

    • Hit a snag w/ securedrop-app-code package not being upgraded due to a file being flagged as a "conf" file, which caused prompts to appear that unattended-upgrades did not default-accept. PR https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5852 resolves.

    • Timing of apt tasks could still be improved. unattended-upgrades adds a random delay of 12 hours to upgrade tasks, which is unexpected behavior.

    • John has put in PR https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5853 to address that. Should pull timing from sdconfig.

    • To avoid issues with future updates, would prefer to pull it into 1.8.0.

    • Proposing to delay release to Thursday 3/11.

    • Conor: What's the problem with the current behavior? Updates will still happen within a reasonable timeframe.

    • Kev: I'm uncertain about the overall logic of unattended-upgrades. Want to make sure the current behavior is at least well-defined and well-understood.

    • John: It does appear to be working as expected, but with delays.

    • Conor: To your point, we should be more careful now with changes to unattended-upgrades behavior.

    • Kev: How about we test RC3 w/ Mickael's changes, then determine if that behavior is well-defined and shippable. Before then, we should inventorize QA to make sure test boxes are available.

    • John: We touched on sdconfig configurability. Do we have ways other than parsing crontab entry to determine what they configured?

    • Conor: Would have to parse existing config file.

    • We can make final decision on release schedule no later than tomorrow at standup, for now, no delay.

  • Review of other issues marked "stretch goal", unresolved QA issues

  • Docs status

    • Migration docs

    • Replace Xenial install with Focal install

    • 1.7.1 to 1.8.0 upgrade guide

    • Safe deletion docs

    • Generalized backup/restore docs

Allie

Yesterday: (Friday)

  • Opened up a draft PR in the new private client repo

Today:

  • Responded to comments in the PR above this morning. There are still two open questions, which we can discuss more today either in PR or over a call.
  • Finish remaining TODO and make changes requested in review
  • Open PR in new private export repo

Blockers or Asks:

  • None

Conor

Yesterday:

  • Half-day PTO

Today:

Blockers or Asks:

Erik

Yesterday: (Friday)

  • Docs and support, revising SDW release plan
  • Quick 4.0.4 smoke test

Today:

  • Docs and support

Blockers or Asks: None

John

Yesterday:

Today:

  • reviewing Norwegian, Romanian
  • trying to finish adjustment of apt timing on Focal

Blockers or Asks:

  • None

Kev

Yesterday:

Today:

Blockers or Asks:

Kushal

Time off

Mickael

Yesterday:

  • review of client PR
  • Fixes to unattended upgrades

Today:

  • Help / QA for rc3

Blockers or Asks:

  • Extra eyes on client PR (TBD)

Nina

Yesterday:

Today:

Blockers or Asks:

Ro

Yesterday:

Today:

  • Docs

Blockers or Asks:

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