Standup Notes 2021 04 29

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

Topics and Call-outs

OSSEC email deliverability issue

• Kev and John investigating, can reproduce
• Workaround identified for postfix config. More research required to explain config drift
• Question: should the updated fix be the new default? Let's test, but yes, that sounds like a reasonable goal.
• Potential point release from 1.8.1 mid-to-late next week

Safe Deletion check-in

Instances w/ onion names post-migration

• No immediate action, but may disable onion names after ~2-4 weeks

Allie

Yesterday:

• Take a look at client repo to find some PRs to review
• Tightened perms on svs.sqlite and now working to remove config.json and sync.flag (these will be added in separate PRs)
• Started on a refactor that moves our safety functions into a separate module
• Started work on https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/1228

Today:

• Look into CI failure for https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1253/files
• Continue removing our use of config.json and sync.flag

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Conor

Yesterday:

• Appended work to xenial-removal PR
• Added a few HTTPSE rules https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/690

Today:

• Final review of xenial-removal PR https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5911
• Review SDW logging changes

Blockers or Asks:

• Mickael, Kev: let's chat about release procedures

Erik

Yesterday:

• Support/HTTPSE
• Docs PR re: news org/FPF responsibilities: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-docs/pull/206

Today:

• More docs/support work
• May poke at SD Client error handling
• Take a fresh pass through user stories spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DQEQp-0e6zN-pCPa0qqY-MGtmpc2SN5mzUsR4nEkpCQ/edit#gid=0

Blockers or Asks: None

John

Yesterday:

• some looking into OSSEC mail

Today:

• more Focal OSSEC/Postfix debugging
• switching to client safe deletion this afternoon
• reviews

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Kev

Yesterday:

• Support / OSSEC fun
• PR for restore procedure improvements

Today:

• v2 files PR fix

Blockers or Asks: None

Kushal

Today:

Tomorrow:

Blockers or Asks:

Mickael

Yesterday:

• Started review of https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5915
• Meetings Today:
• Finish review of https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5915
• review client PRs
• review https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-docs/pull/206 Blockers or Asks:
• None

Ro

Yesterday:

• migration support

Today:

• same
• docs PR review, Admin Workstation rebuild docs meeting + followup tasks later

Blockers or Asks:

• n/a