Standup Notes 2019 11 14
Erik Moeller edited this page Nov 15, 2019
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Participants (alphabetical): Allie, Conor, Erik, Jen, John, Kevin, Kushal, Mickael, Ro
REMINDER: Monday stand-up one hour earlier (9 AM PST / 12 PM EST / 10:30 PM IST)
Discussion topics:
- Advisory:
- USB auto-attach (dev story)
- As long as devs can detach/re-attach, we should be OK (they can)
- We'll stick w/ udev approach for now
Yesterday:
- Worked w/ Deeplow on issue where sources would sometimes mysteriously disappear. Fix works!
- SDW dev env debugging -- had malformed key in config; still could not connect to JI. Rebuilt staging, starting over.
Today:
- Finish ^^, then meet w/ Nina and Erik
Blockers or Asks: Should be OK for now
Yesterday:
- Partial review on kernel changes
Today:
- https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation-dev-rpm-packages-lfs/pull/2
- SD kernel PRs (order is important!):
- Docs cleanup: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/4993
- Demo of SDW
Blockers or Asks: None
Yesterday:
- Collab w/ Nina and Kev on round of slide changes for Conor's preso today
- Slide deck now has nice image-by-image build-out of classic SD architecture, plus a polished data flow diagram + security content
- Downgraded Nina's laptop to working nightlies
- Finalized review of Sr DevOps candidates and next round of screening
- Light backlog grooming, bumping tasks per Allie's prioritization yesterday (see workstation backlog)
Today:
- Followed up w/ Marek re: Qubes partnership & Pinged re: current funding situation
- Co-working session w/ Nina and Allie, providing Nina w/ FPF Qubes laptop & Tails stick; Qubes & Tails orientation
- Iteration on Nina's export messaging proposal (thanks Jen for Slack feedback)
Blockers or Asks: None
Yesterday:
- patched SF server
- intel advisory analysis (in https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/4992), text is pretty good from my perspective
- regarding securedrop-sdk 0.0.12, i approved kushal's PRs for that after testing the client in qubes with that version of the SDK, all is working well
- rebuilt a nightly - now the very latest nightly should work against the SF server - this has the fix for the bug where the main window would not launch
Today:
- otherwise i've been setting up an sd-log appvm with kushal's logging service, and will be focusing on log related stuff for the next day
Blockers or Asks:
- none
Yesterday:
- persistent attachment, at least, merged
- auto attach now close, if udev is the approach
Today:
- either finalizing auto attach and moving on to https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/4855, or pivoting on auto attach
Blockers or Asks:
- None
Yesterday:
- Reworking slides for demo deck
Today:
- Support
- TOTP ticket xfail issue
- Rebasing builder update test PR
- Administrivia
Blockers or Asks: None
Today:
- Reviewed and merged https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-debian-packaging/pull/87 (test/ci: add some initial tests for ensuring build fails)
- Released SDK 0.0.12 and built the wheel and updated our wheel mirror, and also updated the *requirements.txt files for securedrop-client with the latest 0.0.12 SDK.
- Reviewed workstation buster rpm template PR https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation-dev-rpm-packages-lfs/pull/2
Tomorrow:
- More PR review + looking at the board for next issue
Blockers or Asks:
- None
Yesterday:
- Reviewed John's persistent attachment PR
- Work on advisory draft w/ Jen
- Merged PR for removing persistent attachment Today:
- Take on next sprint task
- Open ticket to update workstation kernels
Blockers or Asks: None
Yesterday:
- Support
- Docs
Today:
- Testing Yubikey functionality in Tails 4
- Other docs updates
- Address Kev's PR comments
Blockers or Asks: None