Standup Notes 2021 06 14

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

Top priorities

1. Land Safe Deletion support for SecureDrop Client and associated SDK changes
2. Land remaining release blockers for SecureDrop 2.0.0 and begin QA
3. Organize knowledge-shares focused on:

• SecureDrop Workstation provisioning logic

Topics and Call-outs

2.0.0

• Until https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5990 is merged, fresh installs of 2.0.0 RCs will require manual patch of Tails validation logic

Allie

Yesterday: (Thursday)

• Prioritized Qubes template update, signed with the new key

Today:

• Safe Delete review when ready / poke at flaky tests
• Passphrase issue for exports

Blockers or Asks: None

Conor

(Time off)

Cory

Yesterday:

Today:

Blockers or Asks:

Erik

Yesterday: (Thursday)

• Hiring, contracts
• Product chat re: export/sanitzation
• SecureDrop A11Y planning

Today:

• Hiring: another SecEng phone screen and a second pass through current candidates
• 2.0.0: Help with docs for key rotation

Blockers or Asks: None

John

Yesterday:

• holiday

Today:

• finishing safe deletion tests, PR there and sdk
• looking at Vagrant box update
• QA

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Kev

Yesterday: (Friday)

• Time off

Today:

• QA, hit issue with Tails validation logic. Will finish fresh install with manual patch; then more QA

Blockers or Asks:

• Review of Tails validation PR - John will poke at it later

Kushal

Today:

Tomorrow:

Blockers or Asks:

Nina

Yesterday:

Today:

• Evaluate Dangerzone UX as part of UXFund engagement
• Qubes fun

Blockers or Asks: None

Ro

Yesterday:

• off

Today:

• DST meetings + training followup
• support correspondence
• Admin WS rebuild docs PR fixup (https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-docs/pull/224)
• Redmine cleanup continued
• meetings
• QA (today/tomorrow)

Blockers or Asks:

• Forbidden Stories onion name signing, when time permits (https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-https-everywhere-ruleset/pull/56 )