Standup Notes 2019 05 20

Participants (alphabetical): Allie, Conor, Erik, Heartsucker, Jen, John, Mike, Nina

Topics and Call-outs

• Release update: Test plan is up, RC debs are up
  • John will run through tests on NUCs
  • Erik will take a spin through test plan against changelog

Allie

Yesterday:

• finished fine-tuning refresh fine-tunning
• focused on message preview and empty state -- overall using a source-changed signal for deciding whether or not to hide show
• ran through testing the client on qubes against staging

Today:

• ready for written approval: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/373
• switching focus to working with heartsucker on Queue implementation
• first and last name implementation on pause while working on the queue

Blockers or Asks: None

Conor

Yesterday:

• Backend review of upcoming securedrop.org website rebuild

Today:

• Aiming for cut-over of new securedrop.org website build today; will ping Jen & Erik for review
• Initial first pass through CI for debs: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-debian-packaging/pull/44

Blockers or Asks:

• Jen & Erik: stand by for SDO website review

Erik

Yesterday: (Friday)

• Working through support backlog
• Ansible learning time towards smaller Ansible SD issues
• Work on SecureDrop Workstation funding proposal

Today:

• More follow up w/ news orgs that missed Xenial deadline
• Hiring work
• Work on SecureDrop Workstation funding proposal (timeline portion)
• Start on draft for pre-release messaging

Blockers or Asks: None

Heartsucker

Today:

• Queue implementation -- lack of understanding re: threads, signals/slots, etc. is slowing us down a bit. Will take us until later this week to get an event loop running

Tomorrow:

• ^^

Blockers or Asks:

• Help/input is appreciated

Jen

Yesterday:

• Made PR for reworking debian pkg building scripts: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-debian-packaging/pull/43
• Made PR for building workstation debs in CI: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-debian-packaging/pull/44

Today:

• Review Allie's PR: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/373
• Push commit to https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-debian-packaging/pull/43 (Kushal's described requirements file change happens when make requirements fails and can't add the hashes, going to make that clearer)
• Review John's PR: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/4451
• Then will pivot over to helping in client land OR help out with first name / last name

Blockers or Asks:

• Fix for crypto actions on qubes is here, needs testing: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/377

John

Yesterday: (Friday) Learning, test flake debugging

Today:

• My Qubes workstation is working, so will investigate gpg issues
• QA

Blockers or Asks: None

Kev

Canadian holiday

Kushal

Today:

• Started reviewing all 3 bye-pipenv PRs. https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-debian-packaging/pull/43 needs more work.
• Went into Qubes rabbithole while trying to reinstall the workstation.
• Started reviewing https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/377

Tomorrow:

• Will start QA work
• For SD/client/Qubes PR review

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Mickael

Canadian holiday

Mike

Yesterday: Fighting web bugs

Today: All infrastructure-related - Writing documentation and working on pipelines

Blockers or Asks: Nope

Nina

Yesterday:

Today:

• OTF round X? -- descoping, prep for next proposal rev
• UX prioritization

Blockers or Asks: