Iteration notes from 23rd October

Signed-off-by: Daniel Silverstone <daniel.silverstone@codethink.co.uk>

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+[[!meta title="Iteration planning note: September 26th"]]
+[[!tag meeting]]
+[[!meta date="2020-10-24 14:30"]]
+
+# What has happened?
+
+We finished [[!milestone 15]], completing [[!issue 83]], [[!issue 85]],
+[[!issue 89]], [[!issue 90]], [[!issue 91]], and [[!issue 92]]. Lars made a
+start on [[!issue 23]] and we need to discuss some more, so see later.
+
+We closed [[!milestone 15]] and created [[!milestone 16]].
+
+# Review
+
+Outstanding MRs:
+
+There were none.
+
+Issues:
+
+- [[!issue 95]] - Daniel added some clarification in a comment. We feel that
+  such work would have to very configurable in order to not upset people.
+  It's possible this could be a docgen option. We labelled it as such
+- [[!issue 53]] - We discussed and agreed we could do annual code review (or
+  more if we so choose) instead of holding this open.
+- [[!issue 48]] - We discussed and decided that for now vendoring is OK and
+  versioning the libraries would be a pain. We agreed to close this issue and
+  made a note into it about how we can revisit when vendoring becomes awkward.
+- [[!issue 23]] - We removed this from the milestone after discussing and
+  deciding that for now there's not a lot we want to do on this topic.
+- [[!issue 105]] - We labelled this performance and someday-maybe.
+- [[!issue 20]] - Lars has worked out a good small first step, assigned himself
+  to the issue, and tentatively put it into the milestone.
+- [[!issue 107]] - We agreed on an implementation strategy and Lars assigned
+  himself and tentatively added it to the milestone.
+- [[!issue 108]] - We discussed that this is an interesting and valuable thing
+  to do. Daniel suggested maybe we should do this as a subplot rather than as a
+  yaml document. Added to the milestone, but not as yet assigned to a person.
+- [[!issue 109]] - We decided there's nothing to do here for now.
+- [[!issue 96]] - We need to change the error text, but also Lars wants the
+  filename enough to assign it to himself and put it tentatively into the
+  milestone.
+- [[!issue 102]] - We investigated and found the dependencies for lmodern are
+  likely via a `Recommends` from `texlive-base`. We put it tentatively into
+  the milestone, assigned to Dan (in his absence).
+- [[!issue 111]] - Assigned to Lars, tentatively put into milestone
+- [[!issue 104]] - We agreed on a little more verbiage, and that it should go
+  into `CONTRIBUTING.md`. Assigned to Lars and tentatively put into the
+  milestone
+- [[!issue 100]] - May as well satisfy the `curl|bash` people. Assigned to Lars
+  and tentatively put into the milestone.
+- [[!issue 22]] - We decided to thank Dan for his input and ask if he'd like to
+  tackle this with mentoring when he's feeling a little more Rusty.
+- [[!issue 101]] - This is hard, we're not working on it in this iteration.
+- [[!issue 98]] - This is hard, ideally done as an additional pass on the AST
+  to find and launch the converters, and then the typesetting pass can consume
+  the results of those.
+- [[!issue 97]] - Worth doing, but not right now.
+- [[!issue 94]] - Daniel added helpwanted and mentor labels.
+- [[!issue 93]] - Daniel was moderately excited and assigned to himself and put
+  it into the milestone.
+- [[!issue 74]] - Lars still tends to want this, so has assigned it to himself
+  and put it into the milestone.
+- [[!issue 58]] - Has not had any motion in 5 months, so we closed it.
+
+At the start of review, there were 7 issues assigned to Lars, 1 to Dan, 1 to
+Daniel, and 1 unassigned.
+
+After discussion, Lars assigned [[!issue 108]] to himself, to give him roughly
+a 50% load on his iteration timing.
+
+# Discussion
+
+We looked at Gitlab Iterations, sadly they're not available to us right now
+because they need a Gitlab Group and we have the subplot repo under Lars' gitlab
+namespace right now.
+
+Lars' co-worker Ahmon has tentatively agreed to be interviewed. He's one of the
+first people to actively use it and so asking for his opinions and experiences
+would be helpful. He's prepared to be interviewed by both Lars and Daniel.
+Ahmon's personal timezone puts his start-of-day at 15:00 to 16:00 UTC. Daniel's
+least congested day is Thursday 5th November. Lars will speak with Ahmon to
+discuss the best time to do this.
+
+Subplot in Debian is still 'far future'.
+
+# Actions
+
+The only 'unusual' action coming out of this meeting was Lars needing to talk
+with Ahmon to arrange an interview slot.