Standup Notes 2020 08 18

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

Topics and Call-outs

Support Sync

• Will take place as scheduled. Debrief on latest research, plus a couple of other updates

Allie

(online later)

Conor

Yesterday:

• Addressed comments in https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-debian-packaging/pull/185
• Minor kernel debugging to restore test bed of failing VM

Today:

• Cont'd kernel debugging investigation
• Cont'd investigation of dev RPM PR

Blockers or Asks:

• Kushal, ready for your re-review on https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-debian-packaging/pull/185 (tomorrow is fine!)
• Workstation dev RPM PR: should "make staging" be supported? (Quick discussion: we'll aim to continue to support make staging with freshly built RPMs, will deprecate or remove make prod)

Erik

Yesterday:

• Assisting Joan w/ dev env setup issues
• Rewrote Weblate uploader in Python & added logic for updating existing screenshots

Today:

• Sprint prep for Thursday
• Develop HTTPSEverywhere ruleset policy draft
• As time permits, poke at eliding journalist designations in SecureDrop Client (incl. window resizing)

Blockers or Asks: None

John

Yesterday:

• UX research

Today:

• #1138 as needed
• Focal issues
• Review Weblate uploader

Blockers or Asks:

• Cross-review on #1138 of latest commit

John

Yesterday:

Today:

• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1138
• review https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/3959
• Focal issues, again

Blockers or Asks:

• now need someone else to review https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1138
• need Cloudflare WAF disabled for Weblate screenshot testing -- there's an infra PR for this

Kev

Yesterday:

• Started reviewing #5448
• Rebuilding Qubes docs

Today:

• Finished reviewing #5448
• Finish work on https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5437
• HTTPSE ruleset fun

Blockers or Asks: None

Kushal

Today:

• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5458, also did the diff-reviews
• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-debian-packaging/wiki/cffi-1.11.5-to-1.14.2
• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-debian-packaging/wiki/argon2_cffi-18.1.0-to-20.1.0
• Focal ossec package building PR work (hopefully a proper PR tomorrow)

Tomorrow:

• Follow-up on above

Blockers or Asks:

• none

Mickael

Yesterday:

• PTO

Today:

• Meetings
• Work w/ Allie on template consolidation tasks
• Another pass on dev RPM review
• Review https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5434

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Ro

(On leave until September 14)