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+[[!meta title="Iteration planning: June 6–19"]]
+[[!tag meeting]]
+
+[[!toc levels=1]]
+
+# Assessment of the iteration that has ended
+
+[previous iteration]: /blog/2021/05/10/meeting
+
+There was no goal for the [previous iteration][], due to Lars being
+busy with life and looking for work.
+
+However, Alexander Batischev changed Obnam to make use of GitLab CI,
+which will help catch more problems earlier. Also, the logo by Tigran
+Zakoyan has been accepted and put onto the front page of the Obnam web
+site. Lars finished up the first version of encryption support.
+
+
+# Discussion
+
+## Feature development work
+
+Lars has been thinking. There are many fundamental,
+necessary features of Obnam that need to be implemented, and to avoid
+complicating things, it's probably best to work on one at a time. The
+order matters: the earlier a feature gets some real use, the earlier
+it gets feedback about what's good and what needs improvement.
+That feedback is necessary to guide further development. The approach
+proposed by Lars is to work on one big feature at a time, for an
+iteration or a few, then switch to another. This will get features
+into the hands of users earlier, without complicating implementation,
+when features inevitably conflict.
+
+At the same time, any bugs that are found should be fixed, and the
+backlog of bugs should also be worked on. It doesn't do to have a list
+of know bugs in the long run.
+
+The headline features include:
+
+* encryption (first version is there now)
+* performance
+* fine-grained de-duplication
+* securely sharing the server between clients
+
+Of these, performance is the currently most urgent, as it's making it
+inconvenient for Lars to use Obnam for his own backups.
+
+## GitLab.com organisation
+
+The two Obnam git repositories, for code and website, are currently
+mixed among all of Lars's personal repositories. This is a little
+confusing to others. It would be nice to create an "organisation" on
+gitlab.com for Obnam. That will mean some fixing in CI and web pages
+that link to the current location, but it's better done earlier
+rather than later.
+
+# Goals
+
+## Goal for 1.0 (not changed this iteration)
+
+The goal for version 1.0 is for Obnam to be an utterly boring backup
+solution for Linux command line users. It should just work, be
+performant, secure, and well-documented.
+
+It is not a goal for version 1.0 to have been ported to other
+operating systems, but if there are volunteers to do that, and to
+commit to supporting their port, ports will be welcome.
+
+Other user interfaces is likely to happen only after 1.0.
+
+The server component will support multiple clients in a way that
+doesn’t let them see each other’s data. It is not a goal for clients
+to be able to share data, even if the clients trust each other.
+
+## Goal for the next few iterations (new for this iteration)
+
+The goal for next few iterations is to have Obnam be performant. This
+will include, at least, making the client use more concurrency so that
+it can use more CPU cores to compute checksums for de-duplication.
+
+## Goal for this iteration
+
+Change the Obnam client to use async Rust to be more concurrent. The
+result doesn't need to make optimal use of all cores, but it needs to
+pass the test suite and needs to work.
+
+# Commitments for this iteration
+
+Lars intends to work on the following issues (rough estimates given):
+
+* [[!issue 96]] (email backup benchmark) – 1h
+* [[!issue 109]] (make a release) – 1h
+* [[!issue 113]] (client is not async) – 4h
+
+The async change is fundamental for the goal of the next few
+iterations. The benchmark is needed to see if the async change has any
+effect. The release is needed to get code into the hands of others.
+
+If there's time, Lars will also work on the following:
+
+* [[!issue 111]] (document what Subplot needs) – 0.25h
+* [[!issue 116]] (obnam org on gitlab.com) – 1h
+
+That's a total of 6h + 1.25h of estimated effort.
+
+Alexander Batischev intends to make any necessary changes to the
+GitLab CI setup, such as a Docker proxy, if Obnam gets its own
+organisation on gitlab.com ([[!issue 116]])
+
+# Meeting participants
+
+* Alexander Batischev
+* Lars Wirzenius