Standup Notes 2020 10 06

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

Topics and Call-outs

1.6.0 release update

• 1.6.0 rc2

• Kev will do update testing on 1Us

1.6.0 localization update

• Slovak is stuck at 93% translation (3 of the translators did not reply).

• variable names like {url} in links translated by some. Weblate has checks for this, which were not enabled for these strings, and which are not currently enforced. Enforcement is blocked on Weblate upgrade.

Safe deletion update

• meeting scheduled for Thursday w/ core team

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L3-ccEicYCj4X0hVkRRwhctWMUVUUnkwZfAX5VJdY3Q/edit# open for questions/comments at the bottom

Kushal filed https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/5557

• Possibly related to Focal setup leaving behind dump.rdb in wrong format
• Kushal will investigate further whether this is related to Focal setup or not

Support Sync

• Will happen as scheduled
• Topics will include: onion names, hardware platform

Allie

Yesterday: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1142/ is ready with an updated test plan

Today:

Blockers or Asks:

Conor

Yesterday:

• Template consolidation: moved sd-proxy config into private volume, all tests are passing

Today:

• Template consolidation: working on GUI updater integration, to rerun salt states conditionally. Will try for a reusable implementation

Blockers or Asks: None

Erik

Yesterday:

• Docs reviews
• sd-log related PRs ready for review:
  • https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-log/pull/18
  • https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/618 -- blocked on above
• Drafted blog post for onion names

Today:

• Database diagram
• Release comms / prep as needed

Blockers or Asks: Kushal: Visual review on sd-log PRs (not full test plan runthrough) would be very useful at this stage.

John

Yesterday:

• Qubes Focal staging PR
• Focal GPG error fix confirmation
• Focal testing: dev/test container, conf tests on libvirt

Today:

• Weblate cleanup
• back to type anno PRs -- going to hold off merging so as not to complicate any last minute release fixes

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Kev

Yesterday:

• reviewed changes in new 16.04 LTS version and submitted https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-docs/pull/21 (no impact on release/core that I can see)
• approved/merged https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-dev-packages-lfs/pull/66
• approved/merged https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-dev-packages-lfs/pull/65

Today:

• RC2 testing on 1Us
• template consolidation - updater changes

Blockers or Asks:

• none

Kushal

Today:

• Still working on https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5544

• will push work in progress in the draft pr
• python package management is painful

• Found https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/5557
• communication with Erin about translation. Tomorrow:
• l10n merge back to Develop
• review+pr work Blockers or Asks: None

Mickael

Yesterday:

• RC2 QA and release tasks, backports/review/matrix/test plan
• Investigated https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/5557
• Reviewed/merged https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-https-everywhere-ruleset/pull/14
• Prep for safe deletion meeting

Today:

• RC2 QA and release tasks
• review https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1142/
• Meetings

Blockers or Asks:

• May be unable the template consolidation threat modelling work
• John, Conor, Erik may be able to help later this week

Ro

Yesterday:

• Meetings
• Misc support comms
• hardware testing
• Support tasks/directory listing review
• 1.6.0 upgrade docs

Today:

• hardware testing + handoff (some time afk this afternoon for delivery)
• Support comms
• release comms
• docs PR

Blockers or Asks:

• Ask: quick concensus on de-listing an instance from directory during maintenance window, or waiting a few days?