Standup Notes 2021 06 15

Participants (alphabetical): Allie, Cory, Erik, Kevin, Kushal, Nina, Ro

Top priorities

1. Land Safe Deletion support for SecureDrop Client and associated SDK changes
2. Land remaining release blockers for SecureDrop 2.0.0 and begin QA
3. Organize knowledge-shares focused on:

• SecureDrop Workstation provisioning logic

Topics and Call-outs

2.0.0

• Kev completed a fresh install and testing against VMs. Everything fine except Tails validation issue. If no other feedback, preparing RC2 to get Tails fix in. Then back to testing w/ hardware focus.
• Release date: We'll stick to releasing on 6/22
• Ro has drafted pre-release messaging, which we'll review later today

Next sprint plan

After current sprint, work in Kanban mode until release; next sprint planning & release retro on Thursday 6/24

SecureDrop Workstation Fresh Installs

Allie

Yesterday:

• Clean install test of SDW (running into issues during provision-all)
• Reviewed Safe-Delete PR

Today:

• Focus on QA of SDW with new template and fixing the 3 failing nightly tests
• Hiring prep for Security Engineer role

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Conor

(Time off)

Cory

Yesterday: (Thursday)

1. securedrop-client#239: Initial findings on i18n/l10n approach
2. securedrop#5972: Meeting to discuss a11y prioritization
3. Rust learning time (via Exercism.io)

Today:

1. continued: Review with John
2. securedrop#5982: Review a11y PR from @KwadroNaut
3. securedrop#5983: Start incremental a11y updates to IMG ALTs

Blockers or Asks:

• John: will reschedule (1)

Erik

Yesterday:

• Hiring
• Troubleshooting HTTPSE deploys

Today:

• OrgSec chat about managing PII
• 2.0.0 docs & comms support
• Hiring/contracts

Blockers or Asks: None

Jen

Movin to contracting, ping me on signal if help needed for release, down to work on mon/tues if needed, else will pop in def wednesday next week Today allie and I workin on some hiring stuff in the PM

John

(Out today)

Kev

Yesterday:

• QA
• HTTPSE signing

Today:

• RC2, QA
• Put in PR for backporting HTTPSE changes into 2021 branch
• OrgSec, Traffic

Blockers or Asks: None / maybe chat w/ Maeve more re: HTTPSE deploy

Kushal

Today:

• QA for rc1
• Trying to reproduce the Tor failure on prod vm
• small backport PR review https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5992
• next meeting Tomorrow:
• As required Blockers or Asks:
• None

Nina

Yesterday:

• Dangerzone fun
• Qubes docs stuff

Today:

• Morning errand
• Qubes 4.1 debrief meeting
• Back to Source UI research fun

Blockers or Asks: Glad John is taking a break. :) Can all organizations please do HR PII meetings?

Ro

Yesterday:

• support comms and meetings
• sudden pre-release comms
• onion name

Today:

• pre-release comms
• qa

Blockers or Asks:

• none