Standup Notes 2019 01 30
Participants (alphabetical): Allie, Conor, Emmanuel, Erik, Heartsucker, Jen, Kevin, Kushal, Mike, Mickael, Nina
Yesterday:
- Orientation
Today:
- Met with Kushal, more UX/design fun later
Blockers:
Yesterday:
- Xenial build collab with Mickael
Today:
- Cut over to apt-test for team review
Blockers:
Will need Kushal's review on ^^ by tomorrow EOD
Yesterday:
- Contract/support work
- Some hiring follow-up
- Planning/tooling on-boarding w/ Allie
- Assorted non-SD work
Today:
- A bit of support follow-up
- UX (design & research) & client user stories deep dive with Nina and Allie
- OTF grant work Nina
Blockers:
None
Sorting out client deps. Story for adding dependencies is cumbersome. Every dep is pinned via Pipfile; when we want to update a single dep, we have to make sure that transitive dependencies are updated. Aiming to improve workflow.
SDK update PR.
Yesterday:
- I got this pgp journalist decrypt working in dev env on xenial, and posted a comment for the next intrepid python-gnupg spelunker https://github.com/isislovecruft/python-gnupg/issues/137#issuecomment-459043779
Today:
- gotta test (since there are some postinst changes to securedrop-app-code) in trusty/xenial staging
- if I get done... then flipping back over to the securedrop source interface failure to submit large files bug since kevin had a suuuuper good find yesterday re: the secure tempfile
Blockers:
- None
Yesterday:
- req timeout module was causing requests to fail. changed settings, larger file uploads intermittently working -- but >250MB again failing. if module disabled, those requests continued indefinitely (unsuccessfully).
Today:
caught up in support tasks, a bit more testing on ^^
Blockers:
need resolution ^^
Yesterday:
- Reviewed and merged https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/4088
- Reviewed https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/4089
- Created the PR https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/4090 to bring back Firefox 46 in xenial.
- Attended IFF community meeting for Localization Lab. Most probably I will do a session at the Localization Lab summit on 31st March about SecureDrop and discuss pain points for l10n folks and how can we improve the situation.
- Meeting with Allie
Tomorrow:
- More PR review incl. Xenial build logic
Blockers:
- None
Yesterday:
- Pushed last commit to split deb building
- Working on postinst script to update torrc so that instances are compatible with 0.3.5
Today:
- review CI fix
- more on ^^
Blockers: None
Yesterday: A plate of Infra work
Today: Want to work with Ops team to take down weblate ASAP (it went down last night).
Blockers: Waiting for my ops friend to log online
(on way to co-working space)