Standup Notes 2020 12 02

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

Topics and Call-outs

Emergency coverage over holiday period

(FPF-internal) tracking spreadsheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CGo75HCtbqxcqpI4IX4Fai15ClI78HL5oRqTlMkyxW8/edit#gid=0

What is the best way to handle ossec service in Focal and xenial?

• should we remove the old sysv script and use a ossec.service file for both? (this what the current PR #5638

• Or should we try to keep Xenial as it is, and use "when" conditions in ansible build step for the ossec package to make sure that we do the changes only in Focal

• (Conor) Let's do it just for Focal, it's worth the extra complexity

• (Mickael) +1 ^^

• (Kushal) I'll reiterate my request to dedicate some time to documentation and team learning re: Ansible

  • (Mickael) In the postinst logic we make service restart calls. My understanding is that these will resolve automatically; if that's correct, sounds like no changes required.

Allie

Yesterday:

• Reviewed https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5629
• Started spike for issue #110 (support smaller window sizes)

Today:

• Finish review for #5629
• Finish spike for issue #110 and document findings around resizing and redrawing elided text
• More reviews

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Conor

Yesterday:

• Prelim review of Focal CI https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5638
• Opened ticket on update run order in SDW configs https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/issues/651
• Reviewed and merged v3 Onion URL docs PR for Redmine support portal https://github.com/freedomofpress/redmine_docs/pull/28

Today:

• Non-SD work, ping for review as required

Blockers or Asks:

• Reminder about leveling discussion at tomorrow's engineering meeting =)

Erik

Yesterday:

• Budget/PEO follow-up
• Small docs PR for LFS fixes
• Draft PR for pytest refactor of SDK tests: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-sdk/pull/151

Today:

• Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal) epic & SD roadmap review w/ Mickael & Conor
• Poke at Mickael/Joan's OSSEC docs PR if nobody beats me to it
• Test SDK PR in Qubes, potentially refactor further
• Signal/GVoice docs cleanup & Git tutorial prep

Blockers or Asks: None

John

Yesterday:

• reviews
• some work on the data loading PR
• two rabbitholes: slow SDK tests, pylint

Today:

• finishing data loading PR
• reviews

Blockers or Asks:

• Kushal check Slack :^)

Kev

Yesterday:

• Reviewed Ro's OSSEC PR, can't repro issue it is addressing in staging or prod

Today:

• OSSEC PR follow-up
• Support tasks, code review
• Respond to Allie's PR feedback; docs PR for that change

Blockers or Asks: None

Kushal

Today:

• Meeting with Allie (last night)
• More package building level change in #5638
• small comment on https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/1194 Tomorrow:
• More work will require #5638 Blockers or Asks:
• None

Mickael

Yesterday:

• reviewed https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5638
• fixed https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-docs/pull/113
• reviewed https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-docs/pull/114
• reviewed some non-sd docs
• Some work updating https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/4768
• Opened https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/5663 (install focal on hardware)
• Started looking in to https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/5660 (sshd config on Focal)

Today:

• More work in https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/5660
• UXR interview
• more reviews as needed
• more review of non-sd docs

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Nina

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Today:

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Ro

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Today:

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