Standup Notes 2020 08 03

Participants (alphabetical): Allie, Conor, Erik, Kushal, Mickael, Ro (briefly)

Topics and Call-outs

SecureDrop 1.6.0 / Release Frequency

• Firefox ESR schedule is now every 4 weeks (used to be 6-8): https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/Calendar

  • That's what Tails releases are coupled to: https://tails.boum.org/contribute/calendar/
  • If we continue to couple to Tails, we may commit ourselves to an unsustainable pace

• Conor: Targeting every other release -- moving from 4-6 to 8 weeks -- seems prudent

• Kushal: Agree, we need 6-8 weeks time

• Conor: Not sure what we'd lose, we're not testing on Tails mid-sprint typically.

• Tentatively, potentially switching to 8 week schedule, will touch base again tomorrow

New team member

• Joan starts this week via Internews (3 months open source community manager role)

Schedule update: Ro

• Taking 4 weeks break from mid-August to mid-September

Reproducible builds update

• https://redshiftzero.github.io/reproduciblewheels/

Template consolidation

• Allie to start researching the issue
• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/issues/471
• Notes from tech planning meeting: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/wiki/Tech-Meeting-Notes-2020-07-07

Allie

Yesterday: (Friday)

• Backlog grooming
• Began work on https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/76

Today:

• Continue on #76

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Conor

Yesterday:

• Non-SD work

Today:

• Review demo instance for fundraising event (prepared by Ro), set up test hardware
• Respond to review comments on dev RPM PR
• Schedule pairing for kernel debugging with Nina

Blockers or Asks:

• None!

Erik

Yesterday: (Friday)

• Two UX research sessions scheduled
• Team backlog grooming session focused on SD Client repo
• Chat with Signal Boost folks
• Why is text cut off in dom0 updater? It's because how the main window is configured not to scale its contents: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/issues/597
  • Solved in updater-resize branch but wasn't able to produce that result via Qt Designer tool

Today:

• Some backlog grooming & sprint planning prep for Thursday
• Poking at SecureDrop revenue strategy
• Get workstation updater scaling fixes into draft PR shape as time allows

Blockers or Asks:

• Allie: May ask for your help with updater-resize changes

John

PTO

Kev

Holiday

Kushal

Today:

• Review + merge https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1128

• Review + merge https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-debian-packaging/pull/183

• More digging on running SecureDrop on Focal

• Created https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/5433 to replace the removed platform.linux_distribuiton function call Tomorrow:

• next tasks Blockers or Asks:

• none

Mickael

Yesterday:

• Backlog grooming, other stuff

Today:

• Reviewed Conor's RPM PR for dev builds
• Review as time allows Blockers or Asks: None