Standup Notes 2019 12 04

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

Topics and Call-outs

• Post-release tasks

  • Update upgrade testing boxes: Mickael will coordinate w/ Conor

• Check-in on Buster transition

  • Running make all at this point will result in a Buster system with older packages, until nightlies are built on Buster ( https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-debian-packaging/issues/76 )

• Reminder: holiday coverage spreadsheet coming

• New repo: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-log

Allie

Yesterday:

• Debugging issues w/ Buster transition

Today:

• Create Debian export package so I can test Mickael's change for printer support
• Back to in progress PR

Blockers or Asks: Working w/ Mickael on export/print

Conor

Yesterday:

Today:

Blockers or Asks:

Erik

Yesterday:

• Release messaging, updater testing
• Giving Tuesday campaign support
• Reviewing workstation backlogs

Today:

• Sprint prep & workstation review
• Some hiring prep for tomorrow

Blockers or Asks:

None

Jen

Yesterday:

• Release
• Tested John's USB attachment, works like a charm, also tried out his diff to the qubes devices widget
• oh right and I sanity checked the false positive in the spectre-meltdown-checker.sh, i agree it's a false positive (details in the issue)

Today:

• Tried out https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-export/issues/12, seems fixed
• Started working on MetadataSyncJob, but pivoted away to ...
• Test print integration (both client and export) now that I have a printer yay. I reviewed the diff in client yesterday or the day before and Allie addressed all my comments so im cool with merging once it looks good
• otherwise I'm gonna pick up the securedrop-log packaging repo that kushal made today
• review RM docs at some point today
• review securedrop-export logging->logger

Blockers or Asks:

None

John

Yesterday:

• i18n CI parallelization
• reducing devices widget fixes to just state, removing (most of) the UI improvements, for a smaller PR upstream

Today:

• Cont'd on i18n process automtaion
• submitting devices widget PR
• Getting Qubes machine to Buster

Blockers or Asks:

• universe, please download Gtk enlightenment

Kev

Yesterday:

• Release tasks

Today:

• Approved John's CI changes, other small change to verification code text
• PR review (DrG's changes)
• Hardware for co-working space

Blockers or Asks: None

Kushal

Today:

• Updated and pushed securedrop-log based on feedback

Tomorrow:

• PR review and follow-up on ^^

Blockers or Asks:

• none

Mickael

Yesterday:

• help with release
• non-sd stuff
• Take a stab at nightlies for Buster: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-debian-packaging/issues/76
• Reviewed printing PR https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/631
• Reviewed and appended to https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-export/pull/34 , added Buster support
• Opened https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-export/pull/36 to improve logging integration

Today:

• upgrade boxes
• more printing review?

Blockers or Asks: None

Ro

Yesterday:

• Internal docs
• Contacting admins whose instances are down

Today:

• DST call
• More admin follow-up

Blockers or Asks: None