Standup Notes 2021 04 08

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

Topics and Call-outs

1.8.1

• Test plan & QA today

• Comms will be done on release-day, Erik will work on draft today

• Kev will work on Ansible fix for https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/5892, we will consider for RC2

  • Fix will be PR against 1.8.1 and ported to develop

Allie

Yesterday:

• Reviewed and merged SDW updater improvements and postinst changes in #686 and #667
• Did not have time to work on double-export
• Refreshed memory on current source deletion process and wrote up thoughts

Today:

• Double export
• Tech meeting
• Source deletion brainstorming
• Take a look at https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-debian-packaging/issues/242

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Conor

Yesterday:

• Opened some draft PRs for packaging changes
• Reviewed and merged SDW dbus changed, for updater stability

Today:

• A bit more packaging test work, optimistic that https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-debian-packaging/pull/244 will be passing

Blockers or Asks:

• Kushal: Please see https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-debian-packaging/issues/231#issuecomment-815364527 and document any concerns

Erik

Yesterday:

• Internews phone screen
• Safe Deletion fun
• Observe current SDW updater logging behavior via journalctl
• Support

Today:

• Internews phone screen
• Support
• 1.8.1 release comms
• Back to SDW updater logging investigation as time permits

Blockers or Asks: None

John

Yesterday:

• Client safe deletion Qt experimentation

Today:

• Working on translator demo
• More Qt this afternoon

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Kev

Yesterday:

• RC for 1.8.1
• Support

Today:

• Bugfix for #5892
• Support

Blockers or Asks: None

Kushal

Today:

• 🔲 Release management date:2021-04-14 https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/5891
• ✅ Update the test plan for 1.8.1 https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/wiki/1.8.1-Test-Plan
• ✅ Review debs for apt-test https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-dev-packages-lfs/pull/102
• 🔲 First digging into https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-debian-packaging/issues/231
• 🔲 Review draft PR on reproducible wheels on CI https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-debian-packaging/pull/243
• ✅ Create the workshop material

Tomorrow:

Blockers or Asks: None

Mickael

Yesterday:

• deputy rm tasks Today:
• Look at https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-debian-packaging/pull/244 and https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-debian-packaging/pull/243
• QA on rc1 Blockers or Asks:
• none

Ro

Yesterday:

• migrations!

Today:

• migrations, icinga + support tooling followup
• drafting a plan for next week (email outreach?)

Blockers or Asks:

• no blockers
• probably off tomorrow
• probably a kev-erik-ro support sync on Mon is a good idea