Standup Notes 2020 08 05

Participants (alphabetical): Conor, Erik, Kevin, Kushal, Mickael

Topics and Call-outs

Joan intro

• Focusing on docs, accessibility, other open source community support

Client Tech Mtg

On the agenda:

• Scaling system for the client (how different components resize as you resize the window)
• Check-in on reply badges scoping, next iteration

Upcoming sprint

• Not adding too many new tickets given large work in-flight (Ubuntu 18.04/20.04 support; template consolidation; reply badges; read/unread research & scoping) but feel free to nominate small tickets you really want to work on

Reproducible builds check-in

• Reminder that Workstation .debs are already reproducible
• Tarballs, from which .debs are built, technically aren't, but we could if we want
• Use tools: diffoscope & reprotest
• Tangentially related: focal package build strategy still unclear (Mickael & Kushal surely have opinions)

Other

• make dom0-rpm fails for Fedora AppVM https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/issues/598

Conor

Yesterday:

• Got a repro of the kernel failure again: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/issues/590

Today:

• Small report on how to generate reproducible tarballs (via 'python setup.py sdist' and helpers)
• Workstation kernel failure investigation

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Erik

Yesterday:

• Continued sprint planning prep, check-in w/ Mickael on sprint priorities
• Prep for round 2 of read/unread research; tooling test w/ Nina
• Onboarding chat with Joan (Internews-sponsored contributor who will help w/ open source community management for 3 months)

Today:

• Finish up sprint materials for tomorrow
• Refocus on remaining technical commitments for this sprint, starting with updater scaling fixes

Blockers or Asks: None

John

PTO

Kev

Yesterday:

• prep/meetings for UX research interviews
• continued work on ./securedrop-admin verify

Today:

• Improvements to core admin requirements file generation
• Support tasks
• Sprint task: update to release documentation

Blockers or Asks: None

Kushal

Today:

• Wasted 2 hours trying to figure out on Fedora AppVM make dom0-rpm command https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/issues/598
• Reviewed https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/596
• Back to trying Focal App vm building

Tomorrow:

• Morning update the focal issue with the required steps for Focal
• meetings + DEFCON Blockers or Asks:
• None

Mickael

Yesterday:

• Meetings and sprint prep work w/ Erik
• Reviewed docs changes (securedrop-admin -> sdw-admin) https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation-docs/pull/55
• Key management docs

Today:

• Client meeting
• maybe w/ allie on template consolidation tasks (https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/issues/471)

Blockers or Asks:

• none