Standup Notes 2020 11 09

Participants (alphabetical): Erik, John, Kevin, Kushal, Mickael, Ro

Topics and Call-outs

Qubes upstream updater breakage

Upstream issue: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/6188

Next step: Test --enablerepo=qubes-vm-*-current-testing strategy for updating Salt, if it works as expected, update docs

In fedora31 template: sudo dnf update --refresh --enablerepo=qubes-vm-r4.0-current-testing qubes-mgmt-salt-vm-connector

SecureDrop Workstation 0.5.0 Release

Issue: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/issues/624

• Mickael to take a spin at testing client changes
• Check-in at 3PM EST

Focal App testing in CI

Ready for review: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5619

Allie

PTO

Conor

PTO

Erik

Yesterday: (Friday)

• Qubes updater issue follow-up
• SecureDrop Workstation audit call
• Non-SD work

Today:

• SecureDrop Workstation release & audit prep
• Budget/accounting transition follow-up
• Pick up sprint tasks & start sprint prep for Thursday, as time allows

Blockers or Asks: None

John

Yesterday:

• meetings, reviews, learning time

Today:

• trying to fix CI for #5571 (i18n_tool improvements)
• add seen records to qa_loader (#5514), merge with create-dev-data
• I'll review #5619

Blockers or Asks:

• could someone else try to repro the STR in https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/5617? very low priority of course. - Erik will poke

Kev

Yesterday: (Friday)

• Updater issue - docs, support comms

Today:

• QA / verify updater fix
• Potentially prepare for release

Blockers or Asks: None

Kushal

Today:

• CI for Focal pr: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5619
• started working on the slides for state of the onion talk (5 minutes) link shared on slack for comments.

Tomorrow:

• I am taking PTO

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Mickael

Yesterday:

• Meeting with auditors on friday
• Misc review
• Talk prep

Today:

• Client testing for release
• Release tasks w/ Kev

Blockers or Asks: None

nina

Yesterday:

• GitHub tidying (1hr)

Today:

• 1/2 day SD, 1/2 day Qubes
• Debugging prototype & tightening research script

Blockers or Asks: None

Ro

Yesterday:

• followup with former DST trainee org on the weekend

Today:

• Support comms & preparing a quote/estimate
• DST standup & debrief from the weekend
• 1:1 with Ryan
• finish and share https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-docs/issues/36

Blockers or Asks:

• might sanity-check #36 (backup restore docs) with Kev while in draft-mode; I think our current docs are inaccurate?