Standup Notes 2020 10 20

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

Topics and Call-outs

Template consolidation

• Update strategy

• Release date(s)

  0.5.0 release potentially November 4

  Conor will investigate updater pass approach

  Reminder: We need to resolve https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/1149 (client DB migration) significantly before then

  • Migration is ready but requires migration testing.

  • John will discuss strategy further with Allie.

Support Sync

Async update today.

Community PRs

• Session expiry PR: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5582 (if no one else is looking, kushal will take this tomorrow morning).

• FontAwesome PR: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5593

  • Erik will review look & feel, share w/ Nina; John will handle code review

Allie

Yesterday:

• Seen/unseen in the client
• Joined data and schema migrations into one migration file
• Worked on data migration test code

Today:

• Seen/unseen in the client
• Open migration test PR + migration PRs (decide on whether or not to split the migrations or keep them merge them together as we recommend doing in the client README [get clarification on why we recommend this])
• Begin SDK 0.2.0 release

Blockers or Asks:

• Rubber duck to discuss data migration test issue

Conor

Yesterday:

• Template consolidation, finished mimetype conversion (mostly export changes)
• A bit of threat model work with Mickael (still more docs to generate, but result is we're happy with the consolidation end state)
• Began test plan work for consolidation: likely need two phases =(

Today:

• Testing final one-pass approach for consolidation: ship template-consolidation channel to apt prod
• Else, can we ship RPM and require a CLI action?
• Else, start breaking up the workstation PR into phase1 & phase2

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Erik

Yesterday:

• Support & non-SD work

Today:

• Test plan / changelog drafts for unreleased changes across repos
• Poke at FontAwesome PR
• Start on docs issues transfer
• More non-SD work

Blockers or Asks: None

John

Yesterday:

• reviews
• safe deletion
• tracker automation consult in web office hours

Today:

• pairing with Allie on client db migration
• type annotation, focal reviews
• fontawesome/PNG review

Blockers or Asks:

• two minutes from Kushal to ask about Focal reviews

Kev

Yesterday:

• Support

Today:

• Template consolidation

Blockers or Asks: None; will ping Conor as needed

Kushal

Today:

• Reviewed and merged https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5580
• More try in https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5544 (not ready yet)

Tomorrow:

• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5582 (session expiry PR)
• And #5544 Blockers or Asks:
• None

Mickael

Yesterday:

• threat modeling with conor
• safe deletion, wireframe review and research planning
• template consolidation testing
• workstation hardware support PR Today:
• more template consolidation work
• reviews as required
• help with sdk release?

Blockers or Asks: None

Ro

Yesterday:

• Support/mtgs
• Purism order

Today:

• Attended SD talk
• Support comms / Tails release comms
• Reinstall planning

Blockers or Asks: None