Standup Notes 2020 08 25

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

Topics and Call-outs

Qubes 4.1 update

• See Mickael's write-up in https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/issues/600#issuecomment-680031281
• Erik has requested clarification upstream re: likely schedule for this release

Support Sync

• Will happen as scheduled, update on latest research & pilot comms

Allie

Yesterday:

• Worked on Read/Unread Spec v1 (created v2 doc to capture ideas that didn't make it in)
• Saw that Updater PR fixed the bug where text would get caught off

Today:

• Merge Updater (my manual test worked)
• Read/Unread meeting
• Read/Unread threat modelling

Blockers or Asks:

• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-sdk/issues/128
• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1135 ready for review

Conor

Yesterday:

• Review of template consolidation plan, looks great
• Weblate onion work, github logins aren't working yet
• Revisited kernel debugging test plan, failed to trigger error
• Initial review of focal packaging PR https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5465

Today:

• Kernel metapackage and test plan
• Poking at weblate csrf options to support onion logins

Blockers or Asks:

• none

Erik

Yesterday:

• Read/Unread Research & Scoping Discussion. See notes: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-ux/wiki/Meetings-2020-08-24-%28Read-Unread%29
• Review Joan's docs PR updates
• Template consolidation issue scoping w/ Mickael, focusing on MIME handling.
  • Suggest we add https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/1141 to current sprint if it is as manageable as it appears

Today:

• Translate yesterday's discussion into acceptance criteria in https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/187 , probably subdivide issue (working session w/ Allie & Mickael); review Allie's updated technical spec
• Tails 4.10 bulk announce: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x2i9RD-3GdBZLjDF08U-W8HsQ03DEbnINIhDNW5MYdA/edit
• Cont'd docs collab w/ Joan
• Heads up: will also take PTO this week (Friday)

Blockers or Asks: None

John

Yesterday:

• Reviews
• Start on Qubes 4.1

Today:

• Qubes 4.1
• Meetings

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Kev

PTO

Kushal

Today:

Tomorrow:

Blockers or Asks:

Mickael

Yesterday:

• Qubes 4.1 - very positive results, Qt4 no longer in dom0 so preflight updater needs love. Complicated parts working as expected.
• Did not test close lid to shutdown.

Today:

• Threat model discussions
• Template consolidation work on securedrop-config package

Blockers or Asks:

Ro

(On leave until September 14)