Standup Notes 2021 06 10

Participants (alphabetical): Allie, Conor, Cory, Erik, John, Kevin, Kushal, Nina, Ro

Top priorities

1. Land Safe Deletion support for SecureDrop Client and associated SDK changes
2. Land remaining release blockers for SecureDrop 2.0.0 and begin QA
3. Organize knowledge-shares focused on:

• SecureDrop Workstation provisioning logic

Topics and Call-outs

2.0.0

• Changelog finalized, RC1 packages cut
• Just finished off test plan and we are ready for testing

Reminders

• Friday is an FPF holiday

Allie

Yesterday:

• released workstation 0.5.5 with fix for dispVM issue
• support call with conor to debug pilot issues
• added follow-up issues for the dispVM: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/issues/710, https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/issues/711
• looked into fixing 3 failing workstation tests

Today:

• review https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation-prod-rpm-packages-lfs/pull/20
• product meeting on sanitization and export right after this!

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Conor

Yesterday:

• Release 0.5.5 rpm with dispvm-focused hotfix
• Support call w/ Allie
• Finished review of new template rpm, opened PR for prod https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation-prod-rpm-packages-lfs/pull/20

Today:

• Coverage chats, given upcoming PTO
• Stretch goal: spike on dual-signing apt story

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Cory

Yesterday:

1. securedrop-client#239: Continued research into i18n/l10n approach
2. Digital Security 101

Today:

1. Continued; initial findings forthcoming on securedrop-client#239
2. securedrop#5972: Meeting to discuss a11y prioritization
3. 1:1
4. First (10% = 2 hr) block of learning time! (Rust)

Blockers or Asks:

• John: will follow up re: discussing (next week) adapting existing i18n workflow for securedrop-client#239 approach

Erik

Yesterday:

• Testing/comms for 0.5.5 hotfix release of SecureDrop Workstation
• Contracts/hiring
• Support call
• Backlog grooming

Today:

• More hiring (another phone screen later) & contracts fun
• Product chat re: export/sanitzation
• SecureDrop A11Y planning

Blockers or Asks: None

John

Yesterday:

• release stuff (i18n, changelog)
• solving Qt test problems (thanks to Allie's magic rubberduck power)

Today:

• product meeting
• finishing safe deletion tests
• maybe QA

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Kev

Yesterday:

• RC1

Today:

• Finishing off test plan
• QA
• Mtgs

Blockers or Asks: None

Kushal

Today:

• ✅ https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-dev-packages-lfs/pull/109 RC1 packages
• ✅ https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5975 cryptography is 3.4.7 on dev
• 🔲 Meetings for long in the evening
• 🔲 Looking back at the changes related to new style packaging for app code

Tomorrow:

• Holiday :) Blockers or Asks: None

Nina

Yesterday:

• OOO in AM
• Source UI stuff in PM

Today:

• Product Chat!
• A11y prioritization w/ Cory & Co.
• Afternoon OOTO

Blockers or Asks:

• John! Erik says Client Safe Delete lookin' good, you need anything?
• All! See updated transcription in Wire for Product Chat

Ro

Yesterday:

• 0.5 day mostly redmine/support comms

Today:

• support comms, icinga cleanup + followup with a few unresponsive non-20.04 instances
• redmine cleanup
• DST meetings
• admin docs PR Blockers or Asks: None