Standup Notes 2020 12 01

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

Topics and Call-outs

Qubes 4.0.4 Status

(Kev) I did install a while ago, it was pretty anticlimactic. See https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/issues/640 - we can wait for next RC or final release.

SecureDrop Client 0.4.0 Planning

Once https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1191 lands, we are unblocked on release. Planning a release for early next week.

Reminder: Leveling discussion on Thursday

(Conor) On Thursday, during time slot for engineering meeting we'll be talking about "leveling" of engineering positions at FPF - how we structure titles (e.g. "Senior"). Not asking for changes, hoping to talking it out & hash out consensus. Note this will be an internal meeting.

resolv.conf vs systemd-resolvd

(Mickael) In Focal test PR, there was a configuration change from systemd-resolvd to resolv.conf (what we use on Xenial), to unbreak DNS system-wide. This is part of PR https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5638

No support sync today

Allie

Yesterday:

• UI for source widget: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1191
• Now have a commit for each way of displaying dates
• Worked on script to load demoable strings with a variety of last-updated dates, etc. (waiting until the PR is merged that merges the two data loader scripts)

Today:

• Review!
• Look into fixing a small bug or spike on https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-ux/issues/110
• Maybe review Kev's org name PR: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5629
• Continue review for https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5645 when it's ready

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Conor

Yesterday:

• Patched CI box for Focal PR

Today:

• Initial review on Focal CI PR: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5638
• Create issue for SDW updater logic reordering

Blockers or Asks:

• Reminder about leveling discussion on Thurs, in place of engineering meeting

Erik

Yesterday:

• Docs PR follow-up & backlog review
• Final BASICS report
• Budget/PEO follow-up

Today:

• ^^
• Back to SDK refactor if time permits

Blockers or Asks: None

John

Yesterday:

• #5645 (qa_loader/create-dev-data merge)
• reviewing #5597 (typing: admin and enforcement)

Today:

• more #5645
• other reviews

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Kev

Yesterday:

• Non-SD work / PoC for standardized Qubes setup

Today:

• More on ^^
• Help with review / OSSEC PR

Blockers or Asks: None

Kushal

Today:

• Finally managed to mark https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5638 as ready for review

Tomorrow:

• Follow-up on ^^, review
• will look at nabla-c0d3's pydantic PR Blockers or Asks:
• None

Mickael

Yesterday:

• Investigation/review of CI fix for Focal
• Opened follow up findings Apache2 systemd and sshd config
• reviewed ci fix https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5638 Today:
• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-docs/pull/113
• Another spin through OSSEC docs: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-docs/pull/106
• backlog tasks / review

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Ro

Yesterday:

• Meetings, DST tasks, support comms, p/t prep
• Redmine old ticket cleanup (ongoing)

Today:

• Support comms
• Qubes testinfra learning towards https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/5377 (thanks Kev for sanity-check)
• Some more Support outreach to instances we haven't talked to in a while (general rapport-building in advance of Focal migration + v3 deadline, ongoing)

Blockers or Asks: None