Standup Notes 2019 01 14

Participants (alphabetical): Conor, Emmanuel, Erik, Heartsucker, Jen, Kevin, Kushal, Mike, Mickael, Nightwarrior, Nina

Call-outs / discussion

• Weblate testing pre-0.12.0. Keturah has set up sandbox server. Prod service is bouncing containers hourly to keep them up, but even with that, brief outage last weekend. Mike should be fairly heavily involved, pair w/ Kushal.

Conor

Yesterday: Reviewed pam common-auth settings (https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/4021). Merged upgrade docs PR with help from Kushal and Mickael.

Today: Heavy meeting load, including SD interviews. Focusing on Xenial AppArmor PR (https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/4015) review next. Later this week, working on apt xenial channel, as discussed in engineering meeting last week.

Blockers: Requesting input for Weblate coordination (suggesting Mike/Kushal pairing to debug sandbox that Keturah created).

Emmanuel (lost their voice :((, thanks Qubes)

Yesterday: Preparation for Xenial migration documentation initial draft (also over weekend)

Today: Responding to feedback for above, finishing another draft for review

Blockers: None.

Erik

Yesterday: (Friday)

• Workstation planning; filed issues from audit

Today:

• Hiring, operations, check-ins
• Poking at Xenial messaging with Emmanuel & Kev
• More work on Xenial/Workstation timeline

Blockers:

None

Heartsucker

Still working on replies

Blockers: Need new release of SDK to get reply functionality I need

Jen

Yesterday:

• Mostly on PTO on Friday but since last standup I...
• Added tests for the journalist interface Apache change, flagged in review another bug we should resolve as part of that PR, let me know if you disagree
• I think I figured out what that PGP Xenial issue is due to, was able to reproduce it, and have a potential fix

Today:

• will test PGP fix today and if all goes well file a PR
• cleanup functional test PR

Blockers:

• None

Kev

Yesterday:

(Friday)

• Worked on Xenial alert in JI

Today:

• Support tasks
• Workstation re-provisioning docs

Blockers:

None

Kushal

Yesterday:

• A lot of frustration with molecule and vagrant for https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/3832, but,finally managed to review the PR, approved.
• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-sdk/pull/53 to update sdk to 0.0.5
• Updates i18n dates for the 0.12.0 release (the weblate was missing the old whiteboard message, created a new one).

Today:

• More testing the updated xenial systems
• Release the securedrop-sdk 0.0.5

Blockers:

• None

Mickael

Yesterday:

• Reviewed https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-sdk/pull/53
• More work on https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/4023 and looking into enabling Etags (debugging test issues right now)

Today:

• Hopefully finish https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/4023 Blockers:
• None

Mike

Yesterday:

Today: Weblate bug research.

Blockers: Need to sync again with member on the team on weblate steps and debugging hints.

Nightwarrior

Still working on client UI fixes

Nina

Back to full-time SD work -- was working a bit part-time last week. Did mocks/UX recommendation for EOL notificiation in Journalist Interface.

Now focused on visual design / prep for Wednesday presentation

Blockers: None