Standup Notes 2020 02 18

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

Topics and Call-outs

• SecureDrop 1.2.1 check-in

  • QA today: NUC7 (John), Minis (Kev), VMs (Kushal)

• Pilot org internet access concern - see Wire (can be a support topic)

• Updater logic runtime

  • Kev reports 26 minute completion time for fedora updates, total run >1 hour
  • Kushal: could be picking a bad mirror
  • Conor: Sometimes a VM, while being upgraded via Qubes GUI updater, gets assigned very small amount of RAM. Update can get done but it will take forever. When I observe this, check if slow VM has low RAM, if it does, run qubes-qmemman command in dom0

Allie

Yesterday: (Friday)

• PTO did join meeting on network error handling in the client

Today:

• Provide reviews for the client as needed
• I think there will be time today to work on cupsenable bug and other release-blocker bugs

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Conor

Yesterday:

• Mostly non-SD work

Today:

• Re-review https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/450 (Mickael already reviewed extensively)
• Review https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/458

Blockers or Asks:

• none

Erik

Today:

• Cont'd work on network troubleshooting docs (PR https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation-docs/pull/16 ), other docs as time allows
• Pilot and sprint prep.

Blockers or Asks: None

Jen

Yesterday:

• (Friday) Mostly PTO

Today:

• Working on a technical writeup of what we've been up to to share in a week or so when we announce the pilot, gonna spend a few hours on this today

Blockers or Asks:

• None

John

Yesterday:

• Getting 1.2.1 rc1 cut

Today:

• 1.2.1 QA

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Kev

Today:

• Support comms
• Updater fun
• Fresh install of 1.2.1
• Maybe poke at notifier PR Blockers or Asks: None

Kushal

Today:

• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/447 Finally in a good state, checking a last thing before merge
• Intial round of QA for RC1, updated the ticket.

Tomorrow:

Blockers or Asks: None

Mickael

Yesterday:

• Prod workstation template is currently being tested https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation-dev-rpm-packages-lfs/pull/7
• Review of logging pr https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/447 (almost there!)
• Opened https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-debian-packaging/issues/145 based on Kushal's findings
• Reviewed/commented on https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/450
• apply dom0 state in updater: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/458 Today:
• Re-review log pr https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/447 tomorrow morning Blockers or Asks:
• None

Nicholas

• Today: *

  • Continued to make good progress on functional tests (PR #788 WiP). Encountering, fixing and / or working around various twisty passages full of bugs/misconfigurations. For example, I'm currently trying to work out why QMenu interactions (needed for logout) don't respond to qtbot instructions created in the test. I can observe the events coming in, but the QMenu's action doesn't trigger (EDIT: I just figured it out). I'll continue with this work tomorrow.
  • This whole functional test story feels like a good candidate for a show and tell sometime, once I've ironed everything out and documented it for folks.

• Blockers or Asks: *

  • None
  • Heads up! Tomorrow evening is a PyData event in London, so I'll do an async update since I'll be on the train into London at 5pm (the usual time for stand-up).

Ro

Today:

• support comms catch-up
• last-min SD intake call - will update
• this week and next: some audit prep

Blockers or Asks:

• none but note: current plan is I will be physically away from my test instance servers from March 4-20 (re QA)