Standup Notes 2021 04 05

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

Top 3 priorities during 3/24-4/7 sprint

1. Finalize and land key deliverables for SecureDrop 1.8.1 release
2. Restore reproducibility for SecureDrop Workstation build artifacts; update docs
3. Finalize design for SecureDrop Client Safe Deletion and begin implementation

Topics and Call-outs

Reproducible wheels

https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-debian-packaging/issues/218

"Next we will have to regenerate all the wheels, and then also create build-requirements.txt file for the following Debian packages and do a release:

securedrop-client

securedrop-log

securedrop-proxy"

Allie will take a first pass today

Upgrade boxes / upgrade molecule scenario for Focal

• Pausing work on molecule scenario for now, we'll test manually for 1.8.1

Allie

Yesterday:

• I think we did backlog grooming, might have been the day before
• Community team meetings
• Debuggin on double-export

Today:

• Backlog grooming
• Test recent reproducible wheels changes: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-debian-packaging/issues/218#issuecomment-813356517
• Review OSSEC PR: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5882
• If there's time, continue double-export debugging

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Conor

Yesterday:

• Review of reproducible wheels (using "build") - https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-debian-packaging/pull/238

Today:

• Onion name for WaPo - https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-https-everywhere-ruleset/issues/40
• First look at SDW dev env signing changes - https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/issues/669

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Erik

Yesterday: (Thursday)

• Docs review
• Tweaks to update-xfce-settings tool (still can't repro original issue); start poking at updater error handling

Today:

• Cont'd SecureDrop Client backlog grooming
• Review support backlog & Focal upgrade status
• CoC tweaks
• urllib update for securedrop-export (test-only)
• Poke further at updater error handling as time allows

Blockers or Asks: John, could you take a visual pass through https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-docs/pull/141 ?

John

Yesterday:

• Looking at prod VM upgrade scenario
• Reviewing #5696 (JI user deletion confirmation modal)

Today:

• rebuilding now-dysfunctional prod VMs
• Reviewing https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-docs/pull/141
• Reviewing #5833
• #5878 focal CI failure

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Kev

Yesterday:

• Remove SSH config from backups
• Merged backup logo fix & docs for it

Today:

• ^ Cont'd work; docs for it
• Support
• Poke at Prateek's PR https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5696

Blockers or Asks: None

Kushal

Today:

• Revisiting https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-debian-packaging/pull/238
• Reviewed and merged https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5884

Tomorrow:

• As required Blockers or Asks:
• None

Mickael

Time off

Nina

Yesterday:

Today:

Blockers or Asks:

Ro

Last wk:

• migration support
• DST triage with new client
• sync with DST regarding e2ee conferencing platforms

Today and this week:

• migration support and outreach (currently 5 instances scheduled for this week, hoping for more)
• improved support tooling (remote screenshare setup, mic setup etc), updates to icinga, updates to redmine announce scripts
• attending web sync office hours to discuss landing page scanner
• FPF staff: for current snapshot of instance migrations, check Migration Support info on internal wiki

Blockers or Asks:

• ask: SD HD migration question (will call out in standup)