Standup Notes 2021 07 21
Participants (alphabetical): Conor, Cory, Erik, Kevin, Kushal, Nina, Ro
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Proposed schedule in https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NEp2p3SGdbdSXlnI8PjFR8KZRvMxhfeREx4JFI1t36s/edit#heading=h.2ps0kwdz4cq7
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We'll finalize agenda on Tuesday, but please comment asynchronously before then as well
Retiring endpoint with old signing key https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-https-everywhere-ruleset/issues/64
(Time off)
Yesterday:
- Catching up from long PTO
Today:
- Available for minimal review
- E2EE working group attendance
- Hiring review for SecEng position (interviews this week)
Blockers or Asks:
- Early log out today, back full-time starting next week
Yesterday: securedrop-client#1264 dove into Weblate component (marked restricted/hidden from public view until ready for use)
Today: securedrop-client#1265 review codebase for UI strings to be translated
- E2EE working group
Blockers or Asks: none except PR review
Yesterday:
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Talking to design firms about US PFT redesign
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Newsroom Services Coordinator hiring kick-off
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Other hiring-related comms & follow-up
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Chat w/ Jen about transition stuff, e.g., future of SuperFun instance
- Harlo has offered to take over maintenance of the instance
Today:
- Hiring: Posting Newsroom Services Coordinator job; other hiring comms
- Potentially another design firm call
- Catch up on support backlog & docs review as time allows
Blockers or Asks: Please check schedule above
Yesterday: Some offboarding stuff, and made a new release of signal-protocol to PyPI, fixed the build issue that caused the (bad) wheel. Started looking at the dependency sadness that Conor pointed out on a PR I had parked a while back, will continue that today Today: Chat w/folks at the e2e thing, finishing the X3DH spec in that discussion if that works for peeps. Else digging into the dependency weirdness more Blockers/asks: None
(Out sick)
Yesterday:
- Mtgs
- Approved dependency update PR from John
- Put in a dep update PR for urllib update
Today:
- Catching up on PR backlog in SD Server -E2EE workgroup & other mtgs
Blockers or Asks: None
Today:
- initial review of https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/6046
- this is looking good, only dev requirements, means no diff-review is required.
- More review of https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5988#issuecomment-884170508
- asked about the things which are remained for the PR, list is in the comment
- More testing on https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-debian-packaging/pull/254
- to find out why the sha256sums are not matching
- building the image again:
Tomorrow:
Blockers or Asks:
Yesterday:
- Outreach to design firms for PFT RfP
- Cleaning up UX repo
Today:
- Source UI workshop planning for tomorrow
Blockers or Asks: None
Yesterday:
- 0.5 PTO
- Support comms
- Internal meetings/comms
- Research on whistleblowing platform space
- Newsroom services hiring assignment work
Today:
- Reseach cont'd
- Hiring assignment cont'd
Blockers or Asks:
- none