Standup Notes 2020 06 09

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

Topics and Call-outs

• SecureDrop 1.4.0

  • QA matrix: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15qr2XMlBrlCwgaErGzW9HR4UXJsRtwadwkhOPpEJmec/edit#gid=0

  • Test plan: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/wiki/1.4.0-Test-plan

  • Keyring updates for keys.openpgp.org and securedrop.org later today

• Keyring update

  • Test failure in #563, Kev will investigate further

• Tuesday meetings:

  Traffic (optional for most): Yes

  Support/Pilot sync: Yes

  Client Tech Meeting: draft agenda https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fFX2doMx6rAERjhQt91YZYAz8rJQES5NX91CYPUZ2LE/edit

• Update to hardware reccos for SD Core? (adding 8-series NUCs?)

  • Further investigation of 9th vs 8th gen

  • Purchase required hardware for testing

Allie

Yesterday:

• Reviewed SecureDrop 1.4.0 core packages PR: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-dev-packages-lfs/pull/44
• Created a test plan for the release which Kev and Conor reviewed. It's now on the wiki.
• Created a QA plan with Kev and Conor
• Started WIP docs PR that adds more instructions around the pre-release process: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5303

Today:

• Just finished setting up a Wagtail profile so I can update securedrop.org with new release signing key
• Opened a WIP PR for session handling to share idea
• Update the keyring on securedrop.org and review/verify that we're able to pull the new key from the hagrid keyserver
• Review special strings test PR: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5224
• Review pre-release messaging: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tLPUWrWJG8SCoXXxIWnq_PEIjkD5zrylGYBcVqlea1w/edit

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Conor

Yesterday:

• RM planning with Allie, Test Plan is live, QA matrix updated
• Minor review on SDW keyring PR, can reproduce test failure =(

Today:

• Updating SD Release Signing Key pubkey w/ Allie
  • Conor handling keyserver
  • Allie handling securedrop.org

Blockers or Asks:

• Allie: infra ticket about your SDO access, please test and comment (DONE!)
• Kev: Holler if you want more eyes on https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/563

Erik

Yesterday:

• 1.4.0 pre-release comms
• Updated Qubes staging env to RC1-server, started to do some basic smoke testing of the Client, ran into https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/862 ("Awaiting key" for new source)
• Follow-up to redmine bulk announce script tweaks
• Help with smaller SD fundraising proposal

Today:

• UX check-in with Nina on read/unread, contributor PR for pagination;
• Workstation and Client QA, focusing first on investigating #862 above further
• Back to open draft PR for black in securedrop-workstation as time permits

Blockers or Asks: None

Jen

Yesterday:

• caught up on comms
• couple of small reviews (packages, contributor PR on type annotations)

Today:

• heavy meeting day
• some prep for client tech meeting
• pickin up something from the backlog towards EOD, tbd

Blockers or Asks:

• None

John

Yesterday:

• evaluating https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/3719
• looking into securedrop-debian-packaging failures with pyproject.toml

Today:

• preparing for tech meeting
• maybe more black after
• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/528

Blockers or Asks:

• no

Kev

Yesterday:

• Followed up on #563 error
• Call w/ a client
• QA plan review Today:
• More research on ^^
• Put in draft attempt for simplified merge strategy into master branch, have to resolve CI failure

Blockers or Asks: None

Kushal

Today:

• Verfied jen's suggstion on https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5298
  • I think this is a better process and easier to maintain.
  • cherry-picked and pushed to the branch
  • approved from my side, I am okay to merge
• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-sdk/pull/124#issuecomment-640909340
  • I will wait for john to complete his testing
• Read through the QA plan for 1.4.0
• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5224
  • All of my editors are failing to render the text properly in the test strings
  • Means we have good variation.
  • pushed the updated code as discussed with Allie yesterday
  • now marked as ready for review

Tomorrow:

• QA train

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Prateek

Today:

• Worked on https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5284. Added functional tests as Kushal suggested. Ready for another review.
• Looked on some other issues. Want to work on Journalist API v2.
• Also took a small UX issue. https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/5239. Will work on that next.

Ro

Yesterday:

• light support comms then PTO

Today:

• support comms
• original plan was QA, now possibilities are endless (probably sprint tasks, follow up on some newsroom comms threads)
• lurking on OrgSecCon

Blockers or Asks:

• none