Standup Notes 2020 09 21

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

Topics and Call-outs

Focal updates

• Informational CI package build check
• We can now create Focal VMs with grsec kernel, but fixes in metapackage still pending
• PaX flags: should we close? https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/5495
• ^ Yes, we will investigate https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/4134 in future sprint as part of Focal epic

1.6.0 check-in

• Responsibilities: Mickael will be RM, Kev will be Deputy RM, Kushal will be LM, Conor will be Deputy LM

Cutover for docs merges

• https://securedrop-docs.readthedocs.io/ now builds from https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-docs (working branch)
• Build logic review pending: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-docs/pull/2
• Cutover merges to develop after this is merged & versioning working as expected?
• Infra reverse proxy change then still pending

PR template for SD repo

• Maybe clean out some checklist items that are covered by CI?
• Yes, but need to make sure new contributors still understand where to look for this info

Allie

Yesterday: (Friday)

• Testing & revising seen PR

Today:

• Migration testing for seen PR
• Review John's API PR
• If time allows, review /users endpoint

Blockers or Asks: None

Conor

Yesterday:

• Submitted focal pax flag fix-it PR
• Adjusted RTD build settings w/ Erik
• Reviewed & merged focal deb CI check

Today:

• Update a few focal/pax-related issues, documenting discussion today
• Review testinfra on Tails PR
• Brush up on LM docs

Blockers or Asks:

• "securedrop-docs" repo: should permit merge for all SD folks (maintainers, workstation-maintainers, support), will need more changes as CI checks land, happy to coordinate

Erik

Yesterday: (Friday)

• Testing https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5505
• Build logic for docs https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-docs/pull/2

Today:

• A bit more docs work
• Help with 1.6.0 deliverables as needed
• Start on SD Workstation sd-log issue on sprint if time allows

Blockers or Asks: Review on https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-docs/pull/2 (Kev will review)

John

Yesterday:

• demo site

Today:

• finishing demo site
• sprint tasks (seen API tests)

Blockers or Asks:

• may have to ask Harris to rescue the demo landing page aesthetics :^)

Kev

Yesterday: (Friday)

• Privacy meetup talk prep

Today:

• ^
• Review docs build logic
• Address feedback on testinfra PR

Blockers or Asks: None

Kushal

Today:

• Reviewed and merged https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5518 (first-run kernel for Focal)
• Reviewed and merged https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5487 (traces of obsolete virtualenv)
• Started looking into the testinfra failures while reviewing

Tomorrow:

• next review+QA work

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Mickael

Yesterday:

Today:

• Type annotation PR - determined why it was failing locally. (Branch merge conflict resolution failed.)
• Release prep

Blockers or Asks: None

Ro

Yesterday:

• Support comms
• NUC8 sadness
• Worked on additions to FAQ/clarifying admin responsibilities (see today)

Today:

• Support tickets (10673, 10705)
• Meetings
• Backup/restore docs sprint task
• In anticipation of higher support volume in next few months, I propose some additions to the securedrop.org FAQ: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop.org/issues/731

Blockers or Asks:

• none