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Sprint Planning Meeting, SecureDrop, June 12, 2019

Sprint timeframe: Beginning of Day (PDT) 2019-06-12 to Beginning of Day (PDT) 2019-06-26

0) Mini-retrospective

What we said we would do:

1. SecureDrop Workstation: Solidify queue operation and transition to it for core client operations (replies, message downloads)

Sprint goal partially met:

  • Replies are now sent using the general queue
  • Message sync (download+decrypt) now occurs whenever there is a metadata sync with
  • Messages are downloaded and decrypted via MessageDownloadJob jobs
  • Significant refactoring of queue codebase for maintainability

Pending:

2. SecureDrop Core: Significantly lower CI footprint by eliminating unnecessary jobs and optimizing resources

Sprint goal met:

  • PRs from forks will now use the same rules as PRs from branches
  • Builder image update PRs will no longer run unnecessary tests

3. SecureDrop Core: Address mod_wsgi blocker for Python 3 migration: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/4292

Sprint goal partially met:

Free-form comments

Vigorous discussion of implementation ahead of time, e.g. mod_wsgi changes. Involves large subset of team in planning, eases review.

Desired CI improvements are clarifying, including nightly builds for packages and selective logic in PR diffs.

In general Qubes remains a pain point (kushal).

Who's using Qubes right now as their daily driver?

  • Kushal, mickael, Conor, Kev

  • Common pain points are device attachment, video conferencing

  • Automatic VM updates trigger at worst possible time -> this could impact beta deployments

Possible actions re updater:

  • Limit to SD-related VMs
  • Does it actually need updates?

Appreciate Harris jumping-in to make Wagtail updates asap for survey; that said, to support ongoing research it needs to be a high priority to adopt a self-hosted survey tool as resources become available (which clearly ain't this quarter or next!).

1) Review important dates and time commitments

2019-06-12              : PTO: Kushal (partial)
2019-06-17              : PTO 1/2 day, Mickael
                        : PTO 1/2 day, John
2019-06-19              : Travel: Kushal (RootConf) - should not impact work availability
2019-06-21              : Kushal's talk in RootConf - entire day
2019-06-24              : Travel: Kushal (RootConf) - should not impact work availability; Holiday: Mickael (Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day)

2019-06-25              : SecureDrop 0.14.0 QA and String Freeze

2019-06-25              : PTO: Allie

After this sprint:

2019-07-07              : SecureDrop 0.14.0 Translation Freeze
2019-07-09              : SecureDrop 0.14.0 Release

Time check: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Dki-1GKgQompU1uyMRcfvo9GE6KfKFOpfrKSxf3fgsQ/edit#gid=0

2) Agree on must-achieve sprint goals

Proposed:

  1. SecureDrop Workstation: Address all non-infra dependencies to enable nightly builds of SecureDrop Workstation Debian packages

  2. SecureDrop Workstation: Create working prototype of print functionality and a clear implementation plan for print/export iteration 1

  3. SecureDrop Core: Transition to Python 3 as part of SecureDrop 0.14.0 (mod_wsgi change, dev env changes, but NOT dh-virtualenv change and NOT securedrop-admin)

3) Task selection and estimation

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DU3aVJ_tTXzi9tRF94oyEXUwLkG4sW7rqNiPH7qzc0k/edit#gid=0

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