Standup Notes 2020 05 11

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

Topics and Call-outs

• SecureDrop 1.3.0 Update

  • 1U testing in progress, no upgrade or kernel issues

  • Translation / Review Status

    • Reviewers were unable to find strings for review due to upstream issue (can be resolved via Weblate update)

      • Access changes to i18n repo required?

  • SecureDrop Workstation Testing Status

    • QA scenario TBD - will be part of regular test process for 1.4.0
    • Kev to do basic testing as part of documenting said process

  • Final release messaging: Erik to share draft by EOD

LM: - Due to a bug in the our weblate https://github.com/freedomofpress/infrastructure/issues/2595 reviewers could not officially review. Manually reviewed the languages with help from Erin. John created the translation PR.

• SecureDrop Workstation Client/Proxy/RPM Release Check-In
  • Mickael did some research on naming, added to blockers -- having some issues with using ~ character. Would appreciate guidance there.
  • https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/issues/540

Allie

Yesterday: (Friday)

• Updated Qt upstream bug and added more in-depth notes on the bug, how to repro it, avoid it, and have followup questions for the group in there: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/273#issuecomment-625915894
  • Kushal/Jen will comment further
• Added more developer notes to the README: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1089
• Continued to add styles tests to get full coverage, and started on checking styles between different states, e.g. active state, disabled state: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1082
• Cleaned up logs around crypto and decryption errors: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1090 (I noticed that we log that we can't delete the decryption folder after a decryption error becuase of the existing file in the folder, which I think we could just assume is correct behavior)

Today: -Continue to add styles tests to get full coverage: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1082

• Review Kushal's steps on https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1089#issuecomment-626688779

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Conor

Yesterday:

• Sat in on pilot research interview
• Non-SD work

Today:

• Investigate RPM packaging version string syntax (flagged by Mickael as blocker)

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Erik

Yesterday: (Friday)

• Poked at setting up SD staging setup on Qubes (useful for large # of sources testing)
• Long session w/ Internews (w/ Jen and Mickael) re: possible SD fellowship, would likely have significant focus on open source community engagement

Today:

• Finish up release notes for tomorrow
• More work on custom development proposal, based on last week's discussion and recent feedback
• More poking at SD staging setup on Qubes

Blockers or Asks: Release notes review when ready

Jen

Yesterday:

• 0.5 day learning
• spent most of the day in the internews thing discussed earlier

Today:

• To review Allie's comment on the qt upstream bug
• feedback https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1022
• review https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1090

Blockers or Asks:

• None

John

Yesterday:

• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/5233

Today:

• 1.3.0 i18n merge PR
• Finishing testing/PR for https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/5233

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Kev

Yesterday:

• Reinstalled 1.2.2 on 1U servers, added instance deets in Confluence, began cron-apt update testing
• Reviewed and began fixing make docs-linkcheck failures (cause of weekly CI job failure)

Today:

• Finish linkcheck fixes
• Finish 1U QA
• backport Tails 4.6 docs update
• review, merge, backport i18n PR: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5243

Blockers or Asks: None

Kushal

Today:

• Reviewed and approved https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1090
• researched about a better way to get exact debug symbols for our PyQt code https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1089#issuecomment-626688779
• LM work, manually reviewed the new strings due to a bug in the weblate. Tomorrow: Sprint tasks and review as required

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Mickael

Yesterday:

• meetings
• Completed QA on mac minis (Extended API TBD, if coverage needed)
  • logout behavior with two tabs (not a regression) described in the report: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/5205#issuecomment-624654242

Today:

• Help with release tasks if needed
• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/990
• workstations rcs

Blockers or Asks:

• Naming for securedrop-workstation rcs: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/issues/540#issuecomment-625896428

Ro

Yesterday:

• QA
• Report finalization

Today:

• Catch up on support comms, a couple specific instances to check on
• Configure Qubes laptop, decommission + ship MBP to David
• Rebuild workstation prod since onion urls etc changed during QA

Blockers or Asks:

• no blockers; Allie, if you want to sync up on our small sprint task this wk just ping me, calendar is up to date :)