Standup Notes 2018 11 02
(async update)
Yesterday: Hiring. UX planning w/ Nina -- agreed to defer next round of user testing to post-alpha (starting Nov 19); will be focusing on reesarch synthesis and beta feature specs until then.
Today: 2 user tests. Great insights from first test this morning with a less technical user who had no familiarity with SD. Catching up on SD hiring & helping with interview for our A-SRE position. Other non-SD work.
Blockers: None
Yesterday:
Reviewed / merged API threading
Reviewed / merged some more packaging related changes
Reviewed reply PR
Started reviewing Kushal's SDK PR, hit a weird exception, will try again today
Today:
- I have a massive review backlog so will be working through that
- Also it looks like we need a securedrop-sdk release, so if I get those SDK fixes merged in will also do that
Blockers:
None
Yesterday: Worked on replies in the SD client
Today: Working on replies in the SD client
Blockers: There are errors in the SD API that severly hinder the ability to send/receive replies. These are: - #3918 (see PR #3919) - #3915 (see PR #3915)
In short, we don't know the reply UUID in order to be able to track a reply locally, so we do a "re-sync the world" in an attempt to fetch it. However, the API had a bug that sends us data the client doesn't know how to parse. We could shim a hack into it for now, but this is actually bad and the issue #3918 will break prod instances and it needs to be fix asap. I feel this warrants a point release.
Yesterday: Fixed Qubes issues, got securedrop-workstation running and hooked up to personal instance
Today: Started working thru sdws functionality, filing issues.
Blockers:
Yesterday: Hiring meeting. container and rpm packaging work. PR back and forth.
Today: Unblocked Kushal on an AWS binary hosting thing fingers crossed. Pressing forward on rpm tooling and hosting story.
Blockers: I want ice cream. I have no ice cream. I am blocked by lack of ice cream.
Yesterday: Mostly completed https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/issues/147
Today: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/issues/175 and clean up / open PR for 147
Blockers: None