Standup Notes 2019 01 29

Participants (alphabetical): Conor, Emmanuel, Erik, Jen, Kevin, Kushal, Mike, Mickael, (Nina on Qubes call, so missing standup)

Topics and Call-outs

• File upload issue status & priority -- Kev to prepare PR
• Support sync will happen as scheduled

Allie

Yesterday:

• Set up accounts, got braindump from Jen - history, dev process, release cycle
• Had to reinstall Debian due to font rendering issue

Today:

• Finish setup process
• More code review w/ Jen

Blockers:

None

Conor

Yesterday:

• Xenial hosting packages epic

Today:

• Xenial build config changes
• May investigate CI issues

Blockers:

None

Emmanuel

Yesterday: Non-SD work, Support client comms

Today: Non-SD work, Support client comms, tieing up other loose ends (Emmanuel to be on PTO until 5 February)

Blockers: None!

Erik

Yesterday:

• Hiring-related follow-up
• Light docs & issues work -> https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/235
• Support

Today:

• Final bits of hiring follow-up
• UX debrief w/ Nina on state of Qubes collab
• PM orientation w/ Allie
• A bit more poking at client issues, user stories & SD docs

Blockers:

• None

Jen

Yesterday:

• 1:1s with Heartsucker and Allie
• Tested and could repro the file upload issue, tested timeout and flagged some apache config options that are worth testing, gonna let kevin keep pushing on that
• Filed upstream issue with python-gnupg for what we are hitting

Today:

• Meetings AM (onboarding code review, etc)
• We need to make a PR fixing our python-gnupg issues, and then try to get it merged. I'm going to dig around in the codebase and see if I can figure this out
• If we can't get said PR merged/released in time, then we need to fork the project temporarily. It is what it is :sadpanda:

Blockers:

• None

Kev

Yesterday:

• Large file upload issue
• Qubes fun! \o/

Today:

• More on large file upload issue

Blockers:

None

Kushal

Yesterday:

• Reviewed https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/234 need more discussion on this
• Reviewed https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/4077 the PR needs to be updated by the submitter
• Reviewed and merged https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/4075
• Working on https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/4078 (going on, updated the ticket with the findings from my morning work).

Today:

Blockers:

• None

Mickael

Yesterday:

Fixed dual build logic for Trusty/Xenial Ran into Tor 0.3.4/0.3.5 compatibility issues, may need to ship change before we ship update to the Tor package

Today:

Continue on Tor issue

Blockers: None

Mike

Yesterday: securedrop.org - took out some old servers, fixed some referrer policies on a certain landing page we host

Today: finally getting some infra k8s thyme (with an hy instead of an i)

Blockers: None

Nina

Yesterday:

• VisDe cave time; got new direction implemented into base prototype!

Today:

• 3/4 Qubes things, 1/4 more VisDe; need to get artsy-fartsy with hexagons to refine that stuff, next.

Blockers:

• Nope!