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+[[!meta title="Iteration planning: January 15th"]]
+[[!tag meeting]]
+[[!meta date="Sat, 15 Jan 2022 14:15:00 +0000"]]
+
+[[!toc levels=2]]
+
+# Review of actions from previous meeting
+
+Actions from last time, and their status are:
+
+- **DONE:** Daniel will review Lars' gripes and look to file appropriate issues
+  to cover correcting the problems
+  - no actual issues filed yet
+- **DONE:** Between Daniel and Lars - the talk will be drafted.
+
+# Review of the iteration that has ended
+
+[[!milestone 42]] represented this iteration.
+
+We completed:
+
+- [[!issue 259]] _Top level subplots should be run in Rust too_
+  - `subplot.md` is now run with the Rust step functions, via `cargo
+    test`
+  - we now have bindings files that work for both Python and Rust for
+    the `lib/files` and `lib/runcmd` libraries that come with Subplot
+
+We made some progress on:
+
+- [[!issue 251]] _We depend on a vulnerable version of chrono_
+  - upstream hasn't released a fix
+  - Lars looked at dropping chrono as a dependency, but couldn't find
+    a reasonable way to do that, and then gave up
+- [[!issue 252]] _We transitively depend on a vulnerable version of
+  time_
+  - this is basically just a duplicate of the chrono issue
+
+We made no progress on:
+
+- [[!issue 133]] _No feature table comparing scenario runners from
+  different codegen templates_
+
+We moved the open issues to the milestone for the iteration staring
+and then closed off this iteration.
+
+# Review of the repositories
+
+Currently open MRs:
+
+- `subplot`: none
+- `subplot-web`: none
+- `subplot-container-images`: none
+
+Extra branches unrelated to MRs:
+
+- `subplot`:
+  - `subplot-rust` -- Daniel is keeping this around until he has
+    completed the work on [[!issue 141]].
+  - `docgen-cmark` -- Lars is working on making docgen use cmark
+    rather than pandoc for the initial parse and processing.
+- `subplot-web`: none
+- `subplot-container-images`: none
+
+Pipelines:
+
+- `subplot`: clean
+- `subplot-web`: none
+- `subplot-container-images`: clean, and we triggered the one to build
+  a new container image
+
+# Current goal (goal 2; not changed for this iteration)
+
+Subplot provides a set of libraries with identical capabilities in
+each of the supported languages. Python remains a supported language.
+Rust is promoted to supported-language status. Subplot will be tested
+with all supported languages. In addition, any quality of life
+improvements which can be done shall be done. This goal will be
+considered complete when a release of Subplot has been made with the
+unified language handling support complete.
+
+# Issue review
+
+We had 58 open issues at the start of the meeting.
+
+We reviewed all issues for `subplot`, except ones labelled
+`someday-maybe`. There were 29 of these.
+
+We made a few additional comments and adjusted labels.
+
+We left the docker-for-subplot issue alone, and subplot-web had no issues.
+
+# Plan for next iteration
+
+We opened [[!milestone 43]] to cover this iteration, with the
+following issues:
+
+- [[!issue 133]] _No feature table comparing scenario runners from different codegen templates_
+- [[!issue 221]] _Command line tool has insufficient logging_
+- [[!issue 243]] _Doesn't do "and" automatically_
+- [[!issue 248]] _In Rust runcmd, write exit, stdout and especially stderr upon failure_
+- [[!issue 251]] _We depend on a vulnerable version of chrono_
+- [[!issue 252]] _We transitively depend on a vulnerable version of time_
+
+# Other business
+
+## Talk at FOSDEM on Subplot
+
+Daniel has talked to safety people at his work and gotten valuable
+feedback for the talk. He wants to have a finished draft of the talk,
+ready for recording, by the end of this iteration. Lars will be
+available for review.
+
+## Release plan for this iteration
+
+We decided to defer making a release of whatever is in the `main`
+branch until we have done our talk. When we do, we'll label it 0.3.2
+or 0.4.0, depending on whether it has breaking changes or not.
+[[!issue 254]]
+
+## Getting Subplot into Debian
+
+We are not yet ready to file an RFP bug to get Subplot packaged for
+Debian. It will happen after we think we won't be making breaking
+changes anymore. We probably want to do a review of the dependencies
+as well, to make packaging easier.
+
+## Review of the whole code base of Subplot
+
+We are not yet ready to make a whole code base review of Subplot.
+However we feel at least part of goal 3 will be reviewing a portion of
+the code.
+
+## Issue based agenda
+
+We will switch an issue based agenda when other people join the
+meeting.
+
+## Reaching out for feedback
+
+We won't be reaching out for feedback until goal 3 is done.
+
+## A media repository
+
+Regarding the `media` repository question - we believe this is
+premature at this point - once we are ready to write the talk
+mentioned above, it will be time for the repository.
+
+## Convincing to try Subplot
+
+No new thoughts yet.
+
+# Actions
+
+* None.