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+[[!meta title="Iteration planning: April 22–May 06"]]
+[[!meta date="2023-04-22 15:30:00 +0000"]]
+[[!tag meeting]]
+
+[[!toc levels=2]]
+
+# Assessment of the iteration that has ended
+
+We've been lax about keeping minutes so far, this year, due to life,
+work, and the dark winter time taking a toll on our ability to work on
+Subplot. We have concentrated on making changes and less on taking
+meeting minutes.
+
+We have switched away from Pandoc, and no longer use it to parse
+markdown input, or to produce typeset output. As part of that we have,
+at least temporarily, dropped support for PDF output, and only support
+HTML output. We're close to the end of the current goal now.
+
+# Discussion
+
+## Async meeting
+
+Due to network problems, we couldn't do a synchronous video meeting
+today, so we're doing this async using a merge request.
+
+## The gitlab.com hosting situation
+
+We reviewed [the billing
+page](https://gitlab.com/groups/subplot/-/billings) for Subplot on
+gitlab.com. It all looks OK. We're over the limit on seats, but it
+seems we can increase the seats for free.
+
+We will review the billing page every iteration or two.
+
+The current period of GitLab granting us free resources as an open
+source project is stated as coming to an end soon despite Daniel
+requesting an extension.
+
+
+## Repository review
+
+We didn't review any issues, but did review merge requests, and CI
+pipelines for all the projects in the [Subplot
+group](https://gitlab.com/subplot) on gitlab.com.
+
+| Repository                                                                      | Open issues | Closed issues | Open MRs | Closed MRs |          CI |
+| :------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ----------: | ------------: | -------: | ---------: | ----------: |
+| [subplot-container-images](https://gitlab.com/subplot/subplot-container-images) |           1 |             4 |        0 |          3 | OK (GitLab) |
+| [subplot-web](https://gitlab.com/subplot/subplot-web)                           |           1 |             3 |        0 |         81 |    OK (Ick) |
+| [subplot](https://gitlab.com/subplot/subplot)                                   |          49 |           268 |        1 |        312 | OK (GitLab) |
+
+We discussed the open merge requests:
+
+- [[!mr 322]] (fix(src/codegen.rs): formatting)
+  - apparently `cargo fmt` results in different formatting with
+    different versions of the Rust toolchain, and so CI fails with the
+    MSRV toolchain or the current toolchain
+  - we should change the MSRV test to NOT run clippy or formatting
+    checks
+
+Extra branches:
+
+- there is now only one extra branch, for [[!mr 322]]
+- Lars deleted his old branches, now that we no longer use Pandoc
+
+## Recurring items issues
+
+There are some issues tagged
+[`recurring-agenda-item`](https://gitlab.com/groups/subplot/-/issues/?sort=created_asc&state=opened&label_name%5B%5D=recurring-agenda-item&first_page_size=20)
+in the issue tracker, which we discuss in every iteration meeting.
+
+- [[!subplotissue 119]] -- _Subplot is in not in Debian unstable_
+  - we will work on reducing Subplot dependencies that aren't already
+    in Debian
+  - need the dependency list; we are not targeting bookworm
+
+## What's remaining for current goal?
+
+We need to add support for multiple markdown input files (see
+[[!subplotissue 318]]). Once this is done, we can re-enable
+`reference.md`, and then make a release, and when we do, we should see
+if we can use GitLab CI to build an executable binary of the release.
+
+We decided to not worry about using marked data types. It's a good
+idea, but not actually a blocker for the current goal.
+
+# Goals
+
+## Goal 3: Current goal
+
+Subplot is altered to treat a YAML document as the root of any subplot
+document, permitting multiple markdown files to be joined into a
+single scenario set or output document. We remove our dependency on
+Pandoc’s AST for internal document representation, and support a
+better range of document metadata as a result. We will use marked data
+types where possible to permit better provenance information in error
+and warning messages; and we will strive to reenable the reference
+tests such that we can make a statement to the effect that post goal
+3, we do not intend to make further breaking changes to the input
+formats or primary behaviours of Subplot.
+
+([Related issues on gitlab](https://gitlab.com/subplot/subplot/-/issues?label_name%5B%5D=goal%3A%3A3))
+
+## Goal 4: Planned
+
+This goal is very likely to change. This is merely an initial sketch.
+
+We'll improve documentation and generally aim at making Subplot more
+plausibly usable by people outside of the Subplot project.
+
+([Related issues on gitlab](https://gitlab.com/subplot/subplot/-/issues?label_name%5B%5D=goal%3A%3A4))
+
+# Plan for new iteration
+
+## Issues
+
+We intend to work on the following issues
+([[!ms 9]]), mostly carried over from the previous iteration:
+
+- [[!subplotissue 318]] -- _Lacks support for multiple markdown files_
+
+## Actions
+
+These are in addition to work on issues chosen for this iteration.
+
+- Daniel to determine what happened and ensure we won't lose our OSS
+  SaaS subscription.
+- Lars to produce a list of dependencies of Subplot, for
+  [[!subplotissue 119]].
+- Lars to change the MRSV CI pipeline to NOT run clippy or formatting
+  checks.
+
+# Meeting participants
+
+- Daniel Silverstone
+- Lars Wirzenius