Standup Notes 2020 07 07

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

Topics and Call-outs

• Support Sync: cancelled (not much to report), we will review read/unread prototype & research plan at UX mtg on Thursday

• Updated template now in dev rpm repos, make all from scratch is now working

  • Conor managed to get build logic working, no obvious root cause on our end, may have been upstream issue

  • Kushal will attempt a build from scratch tomorrow

• Workstation kernel release

  • New kernel on apt-test, being used by several testers already

  • As part of QA, please look through syslog for grsec errors

  • Mickael will make note of grsec errors to watch for

• Workstation RPM release

  • John/Conor to collab on release

• Client release

  • Erik to collab with Allie on release ticket, test plan

• staging-test-with-rebase fun

  • Conor: Let's add "move to nightly" to next sprint

Checking in on old PRs:

• Printer driver PR: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-export/pull/62 -> close
• Compression of server responses: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-sdk/pull/121 -> keep open, research

Allie

Yesterday:

• debugged time drift issue on Qubes with conor
• reviewed https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/582
• reviewed https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5354
• reviewed and added a commit to support special string replies: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5224
• responded to some review comments for https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1089

Today:

• template consolidation meeting regarding: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/issues/471
• debugged time drift issue on Qubes with conor
• reviewed https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/582

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Conor

Yesterday:

• Staging CI box rebuild, have draft PR up to monitor behavior
• Uploaded template RPM (upstream fix resolved)

Today:

• Updated RPM docs with prod steps https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/wiki/Building-securedrop-workstation-dom0-config-RPM-package, for John
• Sign and perhaps release prod dom0-config RPM

Blockers or Asks: None/collab with John

Erik

Yesterday:

• Tested workstation kernel update, all good so far
• Reviewed current state of read/unread prototype, discussed next round of updater polish w/ Nina
• Prep for template consolidation discussion
• Sprint planning prep

Today:

• Finish up sprint planning prep
• More workstation QA

Blockers or Asks: None

John

Yesterday:

• PTO

Today:

• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5318 (testinfra&prod)
• RPM fun

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Kev

Yesterday:

• NUC8/10 hardware order submitted
• Updated prod workstation with keyring fixes and went through test plan for https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/issues/580

Today:

• finishing off SD core testinfra PR

Blockers or Asks: None

Kushal

Today:

• reviewed and merged https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5358 after CI kick
• Retrying with dh-virtualenv and python2 build
• trying out the lint issue with https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5300/

Tomorrow:

• ^^
• Test new template

Blockers or Asks: None

Mickael

Yesterday:

• reviewed and merged various kernel update PRs
• review of Templates w/ Conor
• PR template for httpseverywhere

Today:

• meetings
• Will comment on https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/issues/579 once i do basic client testing and instructions to reproduce
• Update release ticket to document possible grsec issues
• Help w/ workstation 0.4.0 release as needed

Blockers or Asks: None

Ro

Yesterday:

• Support comms catchup after long weekend
• meetings
• contract renewal comms
• workstation fix re: keyring issue

Today:

• workstation cont'd and finish documenting
• meetings
• Hopefully get unblocked on workstation and finish other sprint tasks
• Tails USB rebuild

Blockers or Asks:

• none