Standup Notes 2020 02 27

Participants (alphabetical): Allie, Conor, Erik, Jen, John, Kevin, Mickael

Topics and Call-outs

• https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/q07bfjh7jf1t

• Replies get stuck in pending state: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/825 - only shows up in nightlies (even when downgrading to very old ones) and prod build, might be interaction with other system components

• Allie to work on issue described in https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/820#issuecomment-591585400 and review of Jen's fix

• Allie to test Jen's reply reodering fix

Allie

Yesterday:

• Investigate reply bugs & logs w/ Jen
• Check in on reply-related issues in client
• Can't reproduce export issue, doesn't have to be release blocker

Today:

• ^^

Blockers or Asks: None

Conor

Yesterday:

• Tested Kev's staging data PR (will submit review pronto, needs docs but otherwise lgtm)
• Started SDW updater poking

Today:

• Updater logic all day

Blockers or Asks: None

Erik

Yesterday:

• Pilot comms: https://securedrop.org/news/piloting-securedrop-workstation-qubes-os/
• Was unable to reproduce issue observed on https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/465 , clarified test plan
• Work on https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation-docs/pull/16 , restructured into how-to format

Today:

• Continue on https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation-docs/pull/16
• Continued testing in Qubes & pilot prep

Blockers or Asks: None

Jen

Yesterday:

• was reading about the transaction fun that john found yesterday
• tryed to understand that pending reply status issue in 825, that one is super mysterious
• tryed to understand how that unhandled exception in could be happening (820)
• was debugging the reply ordering and im pretty sure i figured out this reply ordering thing this morning... fix incoming in a bit

Today:

• putting up fix for reply order
• other bug fixing stuff either reviewing or implementin

Blockers or Asks:

• none

John

Yesterday:

• #797, races, sessions
• getting staging working

Today:

• some last #797 investigation
• #822 review
• extract fix from #797 for separate issue/PR
• looking at #825

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Kev

Yesterday:

• Prod install of SecureDrop Workstation on fresh hardware

Today:

• ^^
• Support tasks
• Add docs to #5143
• Another spin through #465
• QA datasets

Blockers or Asks: None

Mickael

Yesterday:

• Work on prod workstation release
• Reviewed #5143
• Non-SD work

Today:

• Aiming to merge #5143
• Investigate erf issues in coordination w/ Conor
• Pick up updater issue

Blockers or Asks: None