Standup Notes 2020 06 17

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

Topics and Call-outs

SecureDrop 1.4.0

• Post-release merge strategy

  • Spike in https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5305

  • Attempting to resolve remaining CI issues with rules exempting PRs into master branch

• Builder updates

  • develop PR here: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5319
  • then must be backported
  • Release messaging reviewed by Conor so far, docs PR under review

SecureDrop Workstation Keyring Update

• Deb/RPM release up, Erik pinging news orgs

Flagging https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/577 - deprecating make all in that repo, please speak up if concerns

YubiKey use for the SecureDrop Workstation

Allie

Yesterday:

• Fixed a few crashers and multi-deletion issue: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1114

Today:

• Release day! Help Conor with the SecureDrop 1.4.0 release as needed
• Review day! Respond to review comments on #1114
• Docs day!
• If there's time, fix linter issue on Kushal's PR:https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5224

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Conor

Yesterday:

• Workstation keyring release

Today:

• 1.4.0 -- proceeding with deb package build after builder images, then all other release mechanics

Blockers or Asks: Will ping folks for review on release PRs, very interested to see recommendations on docs merge strategy

Erik

Yesterday:

• QA on workstation RPM release; prep comms
• Review YubiKey docs PR
• black PR for securedrop-workstation was merged; investigated use of semi-automatic rebase for existing PRs using combination of --strategy-option=theirs and --exec; worked well

Today:

• Comms w/ existing workstation users about keyring update
• Release comms, other PR follow-up as warranted

Blockers or Asks: None

Jen

Yesterday:

• reviewed the httpse changes
• some release related reviews
• was reproducing the underlying bugs this morn for securedrop-client#1114

Today:

• help as needed with release stuff
• reviewing securedrop-client#1114
• prolly review securedrop-debian-packaging pR from john unless someone beats me to it

Blockers or Asks:

• None

John

Yesterday:

• #528 review
• remaining black/isort issues

Today:

• updated securedrop-debian-packaging to deal with pyproject.toml changes; this will unbreak CI on the black/isort changes in client.
• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/1108 (client database lock research)

Blockers or Asks:

• (ask) review of https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-debian-packaging/pull/175

Kev

Yesterday:

• testinfra for prod testing, put in draft PR for that

Today:

• more fixes to ^^ before marking it ready
• docs merge strategy, other docs changes
• testing builder updater PR right now
• some support follow-up

Blockers or Asks: None

Kushal

Today:

• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5224
  • more changes based on feedback
• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1115
  • looking thnrough the change
  • initial changes look go
• Started doing initial review https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5318/ Tomorrow:
• more reviews
• Learning time in the world of Rust 🦀🦀🦀. Blockers or Asks:
• none

Mickael

PTO

Ro

Yesterday:

• meetings (SD prospect, DST, regular Tuesday)
• Qubes staging envt setup (some hiccups, needed Conor's workaround in https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/3936 :/ )
• ansible learning + SD learning for

Today:

• research spike on SD Workstation backup
• YubiKey docs PR

Blockers or Asks: None