Standup Notes 2020 02 26

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

Topics and Call-outs

• Prod install: all required PRs have been merged
  • Kev transitioning one laptop to prod workstation today
  • Erik/Ro to set up prod install Thursday or Friday
• Maybe touch base on high priority bugs

Allie

Yesterday:

• Opened https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/819, https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/822, https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/823, https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/824

Today:

• Repro device mapper issue for export
• Follow-up on reply-related issues

Blockers or Asks: None

Conor

Yesterday:

• Onboarding new Sr. DevOps Engineer

Today:

• Poking at performance bottlenecks w/ updater

Blockers or Asks:

• Coordination on the above w/ Kev or others working on it

Erik

Yesterday:

• Initial UX research chat w/ Nina
• Reviewed Linguine funding proposal
• A bit of Qubes testing, ran into https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/825 (replies getting stuck)
• Continuing to flesh out troubleshooting docs

Today:

• Some support follow-up and pilot comms
• See if I can repro Kev's experience reported in https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/465
• Aiming to get as much Qubes testing&docs time in as possible
• Publication of blog post re: SecureDrop Workstation by EOD

Blockers or Asks: None

Jen

Yesterday:

• looked into the reply ordering issue briefly, I have a hypothesis which I posted in the ticket, will follow up today
• reviewed mickael's 0.2.1 PR for workstation
• Finished edits to blog / edits to whitepaper in the PM

Today:

• Helping with stabilizing master on securedrop-client
• If that is completed, then going back to reply ordering

Blockers or Asks:

• None

John

Yesterday:

• review of #817 (sync naming refactor)
• several attempts at #5143 (staging data)
• #797 (deletion race)

Today:

• #797 (deletion race)
• other client things (#823 if it unblocks), or ft review

Blockers or Asks:

• my Debian staging env is borked, so if someone else has time to look at #5143, I'd appreciate it

Kev

Yesterday:

• Testing #465 (sdw-notify tweaks), running into updater repeatedly coming up when it shouldn't
• Reviewed and approved 0.2.1 workstation PR
• Prod install

Today:

• ^^
• Back to building QA datasets

Blockers or Asks: None

Kushal

Time off

Mickael

Yesterday:

• Tested initial prod release of workstation 0.2.0
• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/468
• Opened https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/issues/469 (devisit dev env)
• Released workstation 0.2.1
• Testing clean prod install Today:
• More prod install testing remains
• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5143
• help with updater if needed Blockers or Asks:
• None

Nina

Yesterday

• Support sync for Pilot
• Troubleshooting & MakeAll w/ Erik
• Pilot research w/ Erik
• Post-merge 666 functionality review & happydance

Today

• First draft of Pilot research plan
• Updater "been too long" message
• 1/2 day w/ SimSec stuff

Ro

Yesterday:

• Meetings
• Cover letter for info sheet & quote

Today:

• Verifying instance
• Prep for a coming on-site

Blockers or Asks: None