Standup Notes 2019 03 27

Participants (alphabetical): Allie, Conor, Emmanuel, Erik, Heartsucker, Jen, Kushal (async), Mike, Mickael, Nina

Topics and Call-outs

0.13.0 Release

• Current scheduled release day is May 15, to bring us back in sync with Tails
• QA period heavily overlaps with PyCon (April 30-May 10)
• Proposal: Change release day to May 29 (a Wednesday, Monday is a holiday), get back on Tails track next time (July 9)
• Agreed upon

0.12.2 Point Release:

• Proposal: April 23
  • Kernel update
  • Potential changes to source interface for instances running Trusty
• Agreed upon

Proposed smaller group discussion after standup: Reply/cancel behavior in SecureDrop Workstation

Allie

Yesterday:

• Installing SD on NUCs (SSH over Tor works, successfully sent document and message), still need to do Xenial upgrade
• Installed Qubes & Ubuntu on newer laptop

Today:

• Configuring dom0 so I can install SD
• Help with review as needed
• Work on refresh bar

Blockers:

• May need some help with ^^

Conor

Yesterday:

• Submitted tor package CI PR (https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/4300)

Today:

• Debugging CI containers https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/4301
• First pass through https://github.com/freedomofpress/ansible-role-grsecurity-build/pull/46 (kernel for point release)
• Non-SD backend tasks

Blockers:

• CI's quite a problem
• Are others able to run make lint locally?

Emmanuel

Yesterday:

• Xenial-related messaging

Today:

• Internal support portal docs
• More Xenial outreach
  Blockers: None

Erik

Yesterday:

• Support/Xenial follow-up & on-site planning
• Updated client timeline, started on reply/cancel behavior drill-down

Today:

• Cont'd support follow-up
• Mid-sprint backlog review

Blockers: Feedback on the source interface messaging (Jen/Mickael)

Heartsucker

• ETag header ticket. Hitting odd SQLAlchemy issues, may not be able to continue until Monday

Blockers: See ^^

Jen

Yesterday:

• Round of review in securedrop-client
• Added a signal to update FileWidget, closes #266: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/284
• Started working on: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/276

Today:

• Will make a couple changes to (should be fast) https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/284
• Finishing https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/276

Blockers:

• None

John

Yesterday:

• PyYAML updates'
• Installing Qubes

Today:

• PTO, sick

Blockers:

Kushal (async)

Today:

• Talked with Mike about molecule
• Back into TBB hell (tests are randomly failing), guessing wrong version due to updates

Tomorrow:

• will look into tbb and also travel to IFF will start

Blockers:

• None (TBB+selenium is above in blockers).

Mickael

Yesterday:

• Reviewed heartsucker's cryptography update. If merged into develop, anything staging trusty-related will no longer work. -> will be merged into develop

Today:

• Reviewing #4300, Conor's Tor PR
• Reviewing Kev's kernel update

Blockers: None

Mike (async)

Yesterday: Talked with Kushal re: molecule packaging logic

Today: What's the priority of this AWS access ticket? #1766

Blockers: Blocked on stage 1 kubernetes roll-out by team member review

Nina

Today: Wrapping up major update to workstation visual design. If you're interested in client final design, please join tomorrow's UX meeting (9 AM PDT).

Blockers: None