Standup Notes 2021 07 26

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

Topics and Call-outs

SD 2.0.2

• Tentatively planning for a kernel-only point release, but results of testing indicate minimal impact on SD, so may reasonably slip to following week
• Need to test new kernel package against supported hardware
• Kernels not yet up on apt-test
• Point release scheduled for 8/12

Allie

(Time off)

Conor

Yesterday:

• CVE research collab w/ Kev
• Interviews for SecEng

Today:

• Continued CVE research, focusing on Workstation. See notes here: https://pad.riseup.net/p/sd-qualys-repro-notes tl;dr is we're looking pretty good
• Testing 4.14.240 kernels for Workstation (built last week)
• Will grab some key-rotation close-out tasks, particularly the test update in https://github.com/freedomofpress/qubes-template-securedrop-workstation/issues/20
• More SecEng interviews

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Erik

Yesterday: (Thursday)

• Source UI focused UX workshop using Figma & breakout groups - worked well, but more of a trial run (not enough time to get very far)
• Stepped through Admin Workstation rebuild one more time per Ro's docs. Hit a single snag (unexpected reboot causing iptables rules to be reset).
• Prep/debrief calls for SecEng hiring panels

Today:

• Prep/debrief calls for (potentially last) SecEng hiring panel
• Newsroom Support Coordinator hiring
• SD Retreat prep

Blockers or Asks: None

John

Yesterday:

• PTO

Today:

• anything that needs review

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Kev

Yesterday: (Thursday)

• SecEng hiring
• Kernel investigation

Today:

• Support call
• More SecEng hiring
• More kernel work

Blockers or Asks: None, will ping Saptak re: a11y review

Kushal

Today:

• Fighting with for https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5988 Tomorrow:
• Manual testing of https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5988 new changes and push to PR and update the description. Blockers or Asks:
• Can someone please tell me if I can just push to the branch of a community PR? my brain is blank.

Nina

Yesterday:

• UX meeting w/ team workshop
• AFK

Today:

• Retreat things
• AFK ~noon+

Blockers or Asks: None

Ro

Today:

• SDW provisioning (tag-team)
• support comms Blockers or Asks:
• none