Standup Notes 2020 04 06

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

Topics and Call-outs

• (ro): have not repro'd libxenlight issue after 2 update cycles, yay (with patched Updater.py)
• Securedrop Client 0.2.0 QA and Release
  • Branch date - maybe aim for EOD Wednesday
  • Must-land fixes
    • Consistent timeout handling
    • Gracefully handle lack of private key: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/140

Allie

Yesterday: (Friday)

• Discussed changes for dataset switching w/ Kev

Today:

• Review Kev's PR on ^^
• Start research on timeouts

Blockers or Asks: None

Conor

Yesterday:

• Banging on updater tests, tossed to Kushal to get it over the finish line https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/523
• Maintenance updates to kernel build (py2 -> py3, patching CVEs) https://github.com/freedomofpress/ansible-role-grsecurity-build/pull/57

Today:

• Review of https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/522 (let's not block on 523)
• Early work on HTTPSE Onion integration prototype
• Review, likely first-pass, on https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5184 (defer?)
• Rebased 523 post-merge of 522
• Kernel build (servers)

Blockers or Asks:

• Thanks for test fixes on 523, Kushal!

Erik

Yesterday: (Friday)

• Out sick

Today:

• Pilot comms and coordination
• QA
• Updater behavior

Blockers or Asks: None

Jen

PTO

John

Yesterday:

• timeout, scalability

Today:

• landing PR to have the client request response compression
• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/140

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Kev

Yesterday:

• Test data issue chat w/ Allie, put together PR for SD core to switch datasets in staging envs

Today:

• Docs on ^^ (wiki)
• Review functional tests on client -
• PR review

Blockers or Asks:

Kushal

Today:

• Updated all the tests as required for https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/523
  • Someone please review the tests (maybe @conor)
• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/984
  • I have a draft PR https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1049
  • tests are failing (mostly because we are trying to check the values even before they are added to the UI via recursive calls)

Tomorrow:

Blockers or Asks:

• Need help with tests https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1049#issuecomment-609865263
• Word cutoff https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/815

Mickael

Yesterday:

Today:

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Nina

Yesterday:

Today:

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Ro

Yesterday:

• support comms
• prospective SD meeting/secure tipline workflow meeting with NGO, recapped in Wire
• meeting with M & H re audit report
• 0.5 PTO

Today:

• support comms
• prep for prod provisioning tomorrow: review Qubes presentation materials, chat with Kev
• audit report revisions
• discussion about MFA issue that an instance is having (Ro, Kev)
• available for QA

Blockers or Asks: None