Standup Notes 2020 09 23

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

Topics and Call-outs

1.6.0

• Confirming 10/7 date
• Kev will help review https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5505 while John focuses on API
• PDT time zone coverage if we need help merging https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5513 - Allie can review or push fixes, Conor can help
• Weblate has the new string changes. Coordinated with Erinm for l10n work.

Demo status

• Some architectural changes pending, probably annoucnement-ready by EOD tomorrow

/users endpoint threat model

FPF-viewable: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19WgG8frsFkMgtSzlkNfDnp6MCWSiwio8zFEmfJj3q3E/edit#

Agenda for Thursday's tech meetnig

Proposed (30 min per):

1. Product Development Life Cycle (in anticipation of custom development project)
2. UUIDs vs. IDs in SecureDrop Core
3. If we have time: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/4533

Focal update

• New issues found on #5522
• Add CI job to run Securedrop application tests on Focal using Python3.8 #5524
• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/5525 Update dependencies for development and testing

Allie

Yesterday:

• Seen/Unseen

Today:

• API for seen/unseen
• Journalist badges if time allows

Blockers or Asks: None

Conor

Yesterday:

• Updated redmine-docs branch settings at Ro's request
• Initial review of John's new demo site

Today:

• Help with review for 1.6.0 PRs (priority: section 3 of 5505)
• Template consolidation update logic

Blockers or Asks: None

Erik

Yesterday:

• Finish up threat modeling for /users endpoint
• More work on docs migration:
  • removed branch filtering logic
  • wrote up infra ticket
  • created docs version of update_version

Today:

• Finish up docs migration cleanup PR
• Start on SecureDrop Workstation sd-log investigation
• Help with 1.6.0 deliverables if needed

Blockers or Asks: Infra help with docs migration

Joan

Yesterday:

• Ran through README for securedrop-docs to get local build, have draft change re: LFS

Today:

• Review of comms alternatives to Slack
• Updates to contributor guide

Blockers or Asks: None

John

Yesterday:

• seen/unseen

Today:

• seen/unseen

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Kev

Yesterday:

• Talk prep

Today:

• Talk prep
• Started review of #5521
• Start review of #5505 (change 1 and change 2)

Blockers or Asks: None

Kushal

Today:

• Testing out various options to identify Python version on testinfra tests

  • using MOLECULE_SCENARIO_NAME in conftest.py and updating vars dynamically seems to be only working solution right now

• Updated weblate for 1.6.0 translation

  • informed Erin
  • Forum update at https://forum.securedrop.org/t/strings-feedback-period-for-1-6-0-release/1366
  • Had one small merge conflict due to tranlator name, fixed during push

• New issues found on #5522

• Add CI job to run Securedrop application tests on Focal using Python3.8 #5524

• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/5525 Update dependencies for development and testing

Tomorrow:

• Looking at the testinfra errors
• reviews/update prs based on feedback

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Mickael

Yesterday:

• reviewed https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5521/files
• meetings

Today:

• review /users document
• release tasks (branch, changelog and testplan)
• review the seen/unseen api/db changes if needed

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Ro

Yesterday:

• Support comms, Tails update docs

Today:

• https://github.com/freedomofpress/redmine_docs/pull/27/
• kev talk rehearsal
• NUC8 setup
• support correspondence
• restore from backups/reinstall SD Blockers or Asks: -none