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Standup Notes 2020 02 06

Erik Moeller edited this page Feb 7, 2020 · 1 revision

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

Topics and Call-outs

  • https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/issues/440 : discussion needed to scope for beta

    • securedrop-log needs to be cofigured in VMs that are processing or emitting logs
    • logrotate: currently logs to file with no compression. Let's do first iteration w/o logrotate, observe log size.
  • Conference attendance (PyCon & IFF) -- NB: this is during pilot, so we'll need to ensure we have coverage

    • Jen will be going to PyCon
    • Ro will be going to IFF
    • Mickael will likely be at IFF
    • Further review next week
  • FPF strategic plan update

Allie

Yesterday:

Today:

Blockers or Asks:

Conor

Yesterday:

Today:

  • Working on prod apt server aptly -> reprepro transition (unblocks pro signing for SDW deb packages)

Blockers or Asks:

  • Mickael please glance at SDW 441 to see if I missed any subtasks

Erik

Yesterday:

  • Sprint planning & associated follow-up
  • Looong non-SD mtg
  • Quick visual review w/ Mickael of update notifier script, fixed test

Today:

  • Final Icinga (monitoring for SecureDrop instances) testing & docs
  • More work on tests & test plan for security update notifier for SecureDrop Workstation
  • Workstation Docs work as time allows

Blockers or Asks: None

Jen

Yesterday:

  • lots of meetings
  • EOD reviewed/tested signal/slot signature fixes, apparmor fix so that they got included in nightlies

Today:

  • checked in on a couple of things we had noted from reviewing the workstation threat model we wanted to double check prior to beta: behavior of VT-d when it's disabled (sys-net won't boot so that's good), hyperthreading (is applied upstream, closed the ticket on our side)
  • do client review as needed
  • review change codename if ready
  • otherwise SDK change
  • might do some load testing also depending on how the day is rolling, else tomorrow if noo ne else gets to it
  • if testing is needed for staging workstation, can kick off whenever just lmk

Blockers or Asks: None

John

Yesterday:

Today:

Blockers or Asks:

Kev

Yesterday:

Today:

Blockers or Asks:

Kushal

Today:

Tomorrow:

Mickael

Yesterday:

Today:

  • Updates to test plan: jen and I have added some tests to the test plan, looking in adding more and/or improving the dom0 test suite

Blockers or Asks:

Nicholas (async)

Yesterday:

  • Final cleanups of work to address ticket #415 (cursor and hover highlighting in UI) via PR #675, which I rebased and is ready for review. The combination of fiddly and infuriating CSS (which I ended up abandoning), Python workaround for CSS mess, Qt gotchas and random core dumps when running the tests meant this, sadly, took all my time.

Today:

  • Looked into #442 (timestamp not updating in UI as new messages or files arrive at client). See PR #778 for fix.
  • Looked into #717 (deletion in client and re-submission from source causes a crash). See PR #779 for fix that requires testing by someone who can recreate this issue.
  • Looked at #747 and #775 ("Last Refresh" / "Retrieving new messages"), which feel mutually exclusive. Would welcome a clear resolution here so parking starting to look at this properly.
  • Started to look at #710. (login polish)
  • Started to investigate solutions (pytest-qt plugin looks promising) for #381.

Blockers / Asks:

  • Tomorrow is my non-FPF "open source" day. I'll be online and happy to chat/answer questions/respond to emails if need.
  • No blockers.

Nina

Traveling

Ro

Yesterday:

  • Support comms
  • Sprint planning
  • https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5116 [WIP] - need to fix functional tests(?), blocking on final UI from Nina
  • pilot checkins, scheduled first provisioning dates for one pilot org (yay!)
  • finalizing/approval for some of my upcoming travel/conferences/DST tasks
  • some misc things I am forgetting

Today:

  • Scheduled a number of followup calls and connections with new folks interested in SD-- next week will be meeting-heavy
  • Working on SD info sheet for prospective orgs - will request review, this is my main task today so that I can follow up with some orgs we met with last week
  • Scheduled a 1:1 with Louise for next week so we can stay in sync about some of our larger prospective partners
  • Planning to propose a SecureDrop-related lightning talk at NICAR if folks are comfortable with this - please feel free to get in touch if any concerns with this, or suggestions; I'll share draft before submitting

Blockers or Asks:

  • Light ask: review of my SD info sheet when finished (usual suspects depending on your availability)
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