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Erik Moeller edited this page Dec 17, 2019 · 1 revision

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

Topics and Call-outs

  • aptly->reprepro

    • Part of work towards Buster prod channel for Workstation repo
    • Unlike aptly, reprepro has out of the box support for multiple distributions + Valid-Until
    • We can also potentially store the entire metadata for the repo in LFS, making workflows less infra-dependent
    • Down the road, we may even be able to deprecate cron-apt
    • Proposal: Migrate apt-test.freedom.press to reprepro

  • RTD setup for Workstation

  • python concurrent.futures fun - actually nvm i will discuss in #securedrop

  • IFF stuff we'll discuss in #securedrop later

  • Kushal: Check out Qt Designer video

  • Heads up: @ntoll rejoining client development for at least a quarter

Allie

Yesterday:

  • Finished securedrop-export fix for bug #12

Today:

  • Make client pr towards #549 and #618, closes #557
  • Make client pr to close #638

Blockers or Asks:

  • None

Conor

Yesterday: (Friday)

  • apt research

Today:

  • modify apt-test logic to use reprepro

Blockers or Asks: Can you think of ways the nightly build logic may fail? Let me know.

Erik

Yesterday:

  • Hiring (eval)
  • Client issues review
  • (Learning time) RTD internals

Today:

  • Hiring (candidate comms/final interview prep)
  • Cont'd issues review & cleanup (client/workstation repos)
  • May do Whonix upgrade on my main laptop & poke at state of print if time allows.

Blockers or Asks: None

Jen

Yesterday:

  • friday tested/reviewed securedrop-export fix for #12, which I merged this morning
  • some smaller packaging stuff related to securedrop-log which is all good now

Today:

  • took a peek at the apparmor stuff, feel free to merge when ready (though we should add something at least to the PR description to handle the case where the dev makes a change and doesn't update the apparmor profiel)
  • will make changes to sd-log PR
  • spending the rest of the afternoon on securedrop-export #33

Blockers or Asks: None

John

Yesterday: (0.5 day pto)

  • Finishing up addition of sys-usb to make all in auto-attach PR
  • Spent learning time on Qubes. Learned that I cannot fix some things.

Today:

Blockers or Asks:

  • None

Kev

Yesterday: (Friday) 0.5 day pto, learning time

Today:

  • Support comms, updates to source guide
  • Started review on DrG's new attempt to resolve issue with multiple source codename generation
  • Other core sprint tasks

Blockers or Asks: None

Kushal

Today:

  • Reviewing #340 on workstation for sd-log vm
  • Debugging tinyproxy issues from the above review steps
  • Reviewing #372 workstation PR.
  • Reproducing #636, client segfault when sd-whonix is shutdown (I could not)
  • Reviewing #5074 on SecureDrop (Adds v2 and v3 source interface urls to metadata endpoint)
  • Picked up https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/issues/321

Tomorrow:

  • securedrop-log changelog entries

Blockers or Asks:

  • None

Mickael

Yesterday: (Friday)

  • Investigating discrepancy with python concurrent.futures issue - at a loss as to why it is required on some Qubes machines and not on others

Today:

  • Continue on ^^
  • log PR review
  • May review #367 in workstation repo

Blockers or Asks:

  • Ideas or suggestions on where to look re: concurrent.futures are appreciated

Nina

Yesterday:

  • Finished color/naming mox; see GH ticket to see everyone's ideas in action

Today:

  • SD Core things: 2 tabs one codename, then maybe will get to new logged-out page
  • Out for the day at 1pm to pickup Qubes laptop at Eriks

Blockers or Asks: FYI: Not around until ~2pm PST tomorrow, but will be poking around Slack as I nagivate airports

Ro

Yesterday:

  • Took learning time
  • Support comms, research on Tor browser issue (UA detection logic). (We're showing a "You should be on Tor" warning for some Tor users)

Today:

  • Continue on UA detection issue
  • Reviewed IVF for a SecureDrop instance
  • Reviewed Kev's docs PR
  • DST meetings Blockers or Asks:

May ask for help re: Tor browser stuff

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