Standup Notes 2020 04 20

Participants (alphabetical): Allie, Erik, Jen, John, Kevin, Mickael, Nina, Ro

Topics and Call-outs

• SecureDrop 1.3.0

  • OSSEC update: WIP - https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5196 (Mickael reviewing)
  • Ansible update: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5199 (Mickael / ?? reviewing)

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  • Tor language/UX tweaks: merged
  • Kernel update: merged
  • Key cache for SecureDrop Workstation: merged
  • Tor update: merged

• SecureDrop Client 0.2.0

  • Gracefully handle missing submission key: Ready for review - https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1059 (Allie reviewing)
  • Don't cut off long strings / makes messages/replies selectable: WIP - https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1050 (Jen, Allie, Kushal collaborating)

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  • Reduce timeout errors: merged

• SecureDrop Workstation RPM 0.3.0

  • Copy & paste RPC policy PR: Under review - https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/528 (Mickael is reviewing)
  • Avoid use of qvm-kill due to libxenlight issue: Ready for review - https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/534
  • Mitigate "Failed to resolve" issue during install: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/535 - Ready for review
  • Single stage updater: Ready for review - https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/528

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  • Gentle shutdown of sys-usb: merged
  • Clear Salt cache before securedrop-admin operations : merged

Copy/paste

Allie

Yesterday: (sick)

Today:

• Been sick for a while so catching up today on what others did last week
• Can review https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1059
• Will look at what progress we made towards https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1050 and will continue work on this

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Conor

SDW Install

Erik

Yesterday:

• Flesh out copy/paste test plan, start on docs

Today:

• Backlog review, sprint prep
• Copy/paste changes as needed

Blockers or Asks: None

Jen

Yesterday:

• Friday I was looking at the bubble height situation in https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1050 and dropped a couple of findings/questions that could be causing the trouble, down to look further today or step back and help with other stuff
• ping me if you need securedrop server review assistance M, I can help there this afternoon

Today:

• helping with https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1050

Blockers or Asks:

• None

John

Yesterday: (Friday) Ansible PR

Today: Ansible PR

Blockers or Asks: Testing/poking at Ansible PR appreciated

Kev

Yesterday:

• approved and merged core PRs #5116 (Tor/logout changes) #5174 (John's qa_loader changes)
• continued working on OSSEC upgrade PR

Today:

• yet more OSSEC upgrade PR, investigating disabling features at build instead of adding grsec exemptions

Blockers or Asks: None

Kushal

0.5 day PTO

Mickael

Yesterday:

• onsite
• review of https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/533
• review of https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5196
• reviewed https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/535 but still WIP so didn't merged, pinged conor for status Today:
• 1.3.0 PRs as needed
• Copy/paste PR + docs
• else https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/534 (or https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/528)

Blockers or Asks: None

Ro

Yesterday:

Today:

• Support comms & meetings (DST x2, support x2)
• Erik's docs draft pr
• blocking off time this afternoon and at least 1 other day this week to catch up on DST tasks

Blockers or Asks: -none