Standup Notes 2020 10 05

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

Topics and Call-outs

SecureDrop 1.6.0 Update

• File deletion error handling PR merged: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5549
• Requirements updates merged: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5550
• Backport PR pending: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5552
• Mickael to release rc2 once the above is merged
• Only 3 languages are remaining
• Kev and Mickael to do some QA today (only application-level changes)
• Ro/Erik to collab on docs change for 1.5.0 -> 1.6.0

Update requirements for proxy, client and sdk, new wheels needed

See https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-proxy/pull/76 )

Allie

Yesterday: (PTO)

Today:

• Check status of template consolidation and help as needed
• Fix failed-to-decrypt issue in journalist badge PR https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1142#issuecomment-701670008

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Conor

Yesterday:

• Successful upgrade-in-place via apt-test for template consolidation
• Latest draft PR is https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-dev-packages-lfs/pull/65 (May end up requesting merge here, but have more testing to do)

Today:

• Template consolidation: Write up results of upgrade testing to facilitate review
• Template consolidation: Begin updater code changes

Blockers or Asks:

• Kushal: Any required LM tasks to perform?

Erik

Yesterday: (Thursday)

• Sprint planning and associated follow-up
• Implemented and tested alternative approach to avoiding special-casing of sd-whonix for logging setup: use of qubesdb-read instead of gethostname() to obtain VM name
  • https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/618
  • https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-log/pull/18
• Docs PR review and merges

Today:

• More work on onion names comms, maybe draft a blog post
• Help with 1.6.0 release comms as needed
• Technical work on sprint as time permits - finish up sd-log issue, maybe start on database diagram

Blockers or Asks: None

John

Yesterday:

• journalist API doc updates for /seen
• qubes/focal staging work

Today:

• unwinding some of the qubes staging changes, getting a PR in
• checking in on #5499, Focal gpg problem
• type annotation PR review

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Kev

Yesterday: (Thursday)

• Fix for submission deletion handling, requirements updates

Today:

• Worked with Kushal and Mickael to figure out what was going on with CI for backport PR
• Reviewed open docs PRs
• Filed docs issue re: Tails docs
• QA
• Catch up on template consolidation if time permits

Blockers or Asks: None

Kushal

Today:

• Review of https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5550 - requirements updates
• Review of https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5549 -error handling for file deletion
• Tried to get a backport PR

Tomorrow:

• review + anything else as required

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Mickael

Yesterday:

• reviewed/fixed backport pr
• reviewed/merged securedrop httpse container for infra
• updated https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1153 based on review feedback

Today:

• 1.6.0-rc2 and qa

Blockers or Asks: None

Ro

Yesterday:

• hardware testing
• support comms
• sprint planning
• dst meeting

Today:

• support comms/potential pilot participant comms
• meetings
• hardware support/other sprint tasks as time allows

Blockers or Asks:

• none