Standup Notes 2020 05 13

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

Topics and Call-outs

• SecureDrop 1.3.0

• release deferred to today due to https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/5254

• fix approved and merged into develop, backport pending

• then rebase, new signed tag, then new deb packages will be built and uploaded

• SecureDrop Workstation 0.3.0

• 0.3.0~rc1 RPM just merged into yum-test

• Mickael working on upgrade testing instructions (-> wiki)

• Erik will be fleshing out test plan, consider QA matrix approach for workstation QA

Allie

Yesterday: (Worked part of the day)

• Did a short Deputy RM task - reviewed release notes
• Added new client style tests to https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1082

Today:

• Review John's PR to fix issue with missing fingerprint
• Review Kushal's pyqt5 wheel script to find pyqt dependencies: https://gist.github.com/kushaldas/d1e639d58eb86191d2485de0c6a59a0a
• Build our own wheel as suggested here: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/273#issuecomment-627373493 (my dev notes added herehttps://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1089/files might work, but need to run through them and if ready will ask for review)
• Review Kushal's Special string test WIP PR:https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5224

Blockers or Asks:

Conor

Yesterday:

• Minor docs merges for SDW

Today:

• Reviewed and merged 0.3.0~rc1 SDW RPM - https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation-dev-rpm-packages-lfs/pull/8#pullrequestreview-411047766
• Review backport PR

Blockers or Asks: None

Erik

Yesterday:

• 1.3.0 fun
• Got Qubes RC2 staging env to work with SD Workstation
• SD Client: Ran into issue with missing keypairs for new sources (regression in master), John has since prepared a fix.
• Salesforce planning for newsroom services

Today:

• More 1.3.0 fun
• Flesh out test plan for SecureDrop Workstation 0.3.0 RPM and begin testing in earnest
• Final edits to feature development pitch to a news org, for initial internal sign-offs
• Continue slow & steady HTTPSEverywhere outreach to a few more orgs (for friendlier SecureDrop .onion addresses)

Blockers or Asks: Nope

Jen

Yesterday:

• added changes to PR 1022 (first pyautogui test that Kushal prepared), that's now merged

Today:

• I owe response to tor folks on HTTPSE naming stuff, will do today
• picking back up my duplicate job PR
• that's probably it

Blockers or Asks:

• none

John

Yesterday:

• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/5233
• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1092

Today:

• testing fix for updater in https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5255
• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/5233

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Kev

Yesterday:

• Release fun Today:
• Release fun Blockers or Asks:
• Release fun

Kushal

Today:

• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/273#issuecomment-627916692 wrote a script to find the library dependencies for the libraries baked into PyQt5 wheels.
• Reviewed https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1022 with clean venv and tests
• Reviewed https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1092/ , maybe we can merge it and test using the nightly Tomorrow:
• Review and sprint tasks

Blockers or Asks: None

Mickael

Yesterday:

• Detailed comments/reproduction attempts on https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/990 (can't reproduce)
• 0.3.0~rc1 RPM merged (thanks Conor)
• Release support

Today:

• Provide instructions for 0.2.4 -> 0.3.0~rc1 testing
• More release support

Blockers or Asks: None

Ro

Yesterday:

• Meetings, support comms
• Decommissioning instructions
• Redmine reorganization (a little)
• Salesforce mtg

Today:

• Redmine tags/cleanup
• decommission docs: finish first draft, share
• prod workstation provision + laptop switchover from yesterday
• possible Allie docs review

Blockers or Asks:

• none