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Erik Moeller edited this page Jan 22, 2020 · 1 revision

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

Topics and Call-outs

From yesterday (Monday)

  • VM rename PR complete, see https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/407#issuecomment-576353155 for details of how it was done. All client and workstation PRs must be rebased against those changes.

  • SecureDrop Support Sync is tentatively on for today - this will be a good chance to discuss known issues with the Workstation & to make sure everyone is on the same page. Unfortunately Ro is on PTO today--please take notes in this meeting!

  • BUGCROWD PROGRAM: if you are in #securedrop slack, please check out the suggested program edit for adding securedrop-workstation projects to our bug bounty program scope (see doc in a pinned message in there)

  • Sync/nework-related findings

    • Server side change is needed to improve performance of replies and submissions endpoints

  • Workstation timeline

Allie

Yesterday:

  • Updated PR#666 so that it is ready for review with notes in the code about how things work and a better PR description on what changed and how to test
  • Reviewed client PRs

Today:

  • Review client PRs
  • Begin Metadata sync migration

Blockers or Asks:

  • None

Conor

Yesterday:

Today:

Blockers or Asks:

Erik

Yesterday: (Friday)

  • Rename PR final fixes
  • Hiring, reference checks

Today:

  • Sprint planning & pilot prep
  • Docs
  • Support

Blockers or Asks: None

Jen

Yesterday:

(Holiday) But - Friday:

  • Made PR priotizing user jobs, merged, thanks!
  • Made PR using the get_all_submissions endpoint server side (followup from John's network findings)
  • Finished this dom0 nightly job, test rpm committed so that's ready for review

This morning:

  • Was looking at the behavior of the client with num sources, found some spooky freezing for large numbers of sources/submissions

Today:

  • Will review 666
  • Will review also the updater PR
  • Those are my priorities but then I'm going to work on the pip mirror rebuild for prod if I get through everything else, otherwise I'll work on this on Wednesday

Blockers or Asks:

  • None

John

Yesterday: (Friday)

  • Timing investigation

Today:

  • (Highest priority) Make sources endpoint faster
  • (Lower priority) Query improvements for API

Blockers or Asks: None

Kev

Yesterday:

Today:

Blockers or Asks: None

Kushal

Today:

Mickael

Yesterday and this morning:

Nicholas

  • Today: *

(See yesterday's notes for Monday's progress)

  • Looked at fixing #652 (create new metadata job queue to unblock the main queue) and created PR #715 to address this.
  • We were hit by a bad pip release and jumped in to report / check / update. Now fixed.
  • Started work on #658 (don't sync after source delete or star update). Almost finished, you'll see my WiP on branch no-sync-on-ui-operations and will create PR tomorrow first thing once I have fresh eyes.
  • Chatted to Nina about her UI spinner tech specs and car-hire website design.
  • Blockers or Asks: *
    • None. I'll just plug on through the backlog. ;-)

Nina

Yesterday:

  • A few more updater/updates w/ Erik/Mickael
  • Lots of 666 co-working to get over the finish line
  • New icons pushed to Content Inventory, and table scrubbed to reflect recentness
  • New updates pushed to Zeplin—all "new" screens have maize Qubes window

Today:

  • DM'd with Nicholas to get techy stuff straight for making QT-kosher animations
  • Plumber visit fun at 9am
  • Sprint review at 11am
  • Make animations for network stuff & Download files
  • Finish outstanding ux delivs for network ticket
  • Venture into the dark woods of make clean/make all on mi qubes laptop

Blockers or Asks:

  • Erik/Jen: Dr G pinged me on GH yesterday, and I responded—but Issue cd use follow-up from y'all. He's on fire, love him!

Pierwill

  • Submitted uptime notification PR. Won't be able to figure out PyQt to push it over the line, but happy to help w/ testing and review
  • Ready to dive into next phase of workstation docs
  • Meeting w/ Berkeley researcher who does cybersecurity - will discuss how academia could help SD
  • Trouble with make all on Qubes

Ro

PTO

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