Standup Notes 2020 04 13

Participants (alphabetical): Allie, Conor, Erik, Jen, John, Kushal, Mickael, Nina

Topics and Call-outs

• SecureDrop 1.3.0

  • Kernel update: merged
  • Key cache for SecureDrop Workstation: merged
  • Tor language/UX tweaks: WIP - https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5116
  • OSSEC update: not started - Kev will start
  • Tor update: not started - Conor will start
  • Ansible update: not started
  • Proposal: align release date with Tails (May 5), pushing feature freeze to April 21

• SecureDrop Client 0.2.0

  • Reduce timeout errors: Ready for review - https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1056 (Kushal will review)
  • Gracefully handle missing submission key: WIP - https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1059
  • Don't cut off long URLs / makes messages/replies selectable: WIP - https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1050 (this is stuck with a resize issue of the QPlainTextEdit)
  • Mitigate deletion crashers: WIP?

• Copy/paste policy changes

Allie

Yesterday: (Friday, half day)

• Looked at Kushal's PR (https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1056) to wrap long words without spaces or dashes and had a hard time getting the speech bubble layout to expand to fit the textedits (will look into creating a signal handler on resize event). We may want to consider going back to adding our own newlines for speech bubbles.
• Opened PR to remove whitespace from messages https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1058
• Opened increase timeouts PR https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1056
• Opened continuous sync animation PR (merged)
• Opened increase sync timeout (merged)

Today:

• Will continue to work on https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1050 and try to get it working which also resolves https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/1052 for us.
• Available for reviews

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Conor

Yesterday:

• Minor review on SDW PRs
• Converted SDW test hardware prod -> staging

Today:

• Tor upgrade for SD core
• Prep for pilot install tomorrow
• More SDW review

Blockers or Asks:

• none

Erik

Yesterday: (Friday+)

• Per recent install experience, added change to Clear Salt cache before securedrop-admin changes: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/530 (merged)
• Added PR to shut down sys-usb in updater run instead of killing it: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/532
• Added experimental PR to selectively permit copy/paste & log copying using VM tags: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/533
• Posted a Gist demonstrating safe shutdown of sys-firewall/sys-net using poweroff, per Marek's suggestion: https://gist.github.com/eloquence/e2fe1fcacad898b18b0712a89a3864e2

Today:

• Respond to Nina's first round UX feedback on updater, other PR comments on https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/528
• Port Gist over to a PR if it makes sense
• Pilot comms & coordination
• Review backlogs; maybe reschedule sprint planning

Blockers or Asks: None

Jen

PTO

John

Yesterday:

• PTO

Today:

• #140: addressing Nina's recommendations
• testing Conor's Qubes staging fixes!
• maybe starting on core updates (Ansible etc.)

Blockers or Asks:

• May need some of Nina's time to talk about a couple of items on #140

Kev

(Install)

Kushal

Today:

• reviewed and merged https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-debian-packaging/pull/163
• more digging into resize issue of QPlainTextEdit (no result yet)
• Digging through client closed issues for functional tests

• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/1053 (UI animation, no funcational tests, human eyes checkonly)
• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/1042 maybe a screenshot test
• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/998 maybe a screenshot test
• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/1015 We need test for this via the Qwidget and tooltip
• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/973 this will need a fucntional test?
• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/978 maybe another test?
• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/962 maybe a test?
• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/953 screenshot test
• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/140 this is work in progress by john, we need a test?
• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/938 maybe a screenshot test
• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/935 maybe a screenshot test
• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/932 maybe a screenshot test

Tomorrow:

• SDK PR Blockers or Asks:

Mickael

Holiday in Canada

Nina

Yesterday:

Today:

Blockers or Asks:

Ro

(Install)