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+[[!meta title="Iteration planning: February 27 – March 12"]]
+[[!meta date="Sat, 26 Feb 2022 14:00:00 +0200"]]
+[[!tag meeting]]
+
+[[!toc levels=2]]
+
+# Assessment of the iteration that has ended
+
+[previous iteration]: /blog/2022/02/12/planning
+[tracing]: https://crates.io/crates/tracing
+
+The following issues were picked for the [previous iteration][]:
+
+* [[!issue 133]] -- _No feature table comparing scenario runners from different codegen templates_
+  - Daniel completed this.
+* [[!issue 269]] -- _`./check` should set a template when running `docgen`_
+  - Daniel completed this.
+* [[!issue 221]] -- _Command line tool has insufficient logging_
+  - Lars made no progress and is blocked on understanding [tracing][] crate.
+* [[!issue 248]] -- _In Rust runcmd, write exit, stdout and especially stderr upon failure_
+  - Lars made no progress and is blocked on understanding [tracing][] crate.
+
+Additionally, the following actions were decided on:
+
+- Daniel is to prepare an MR about the talk for `subplot-web`
+  - This didn't happen.
+- Lars is to deal with the webserver changes needed for `subplot.tech`
+  - Done: the old site now redirects all URLs to new site.
+- Lars will write an MR for the website change for `subplot-web`
+  - Done: The new site doesn't link to the old site, except in old
+    blog posts, which aren't worth changing.
+
+Furthermore, we did this:
+
+* Lars changed the `subplot-container-images` repository to trigger a
+  build automatically on Friday evenings. This saves us from having to
+  remember to do that manually every meeting.
+
+Overall, we made a some progress, which is all we demand from
+ourselves on a hobby project.
+
+# Discussion and decisions
+
+## Moving meeting agenda items to the issue tracker.
+
+Lars proposed a new order of topics in the agenda, and that we move
+recurring discussion topics to the issue tracker. This should let us
+avoid copying items from meeting note to meeting note. Daniel agreed,
+so we did that during the meeting.
+
+We created a label
+[recurring-agenda-item](https://gitlab.com/subplot/subplot/-/issues?sort=updated_desc&state=opened&label_name[]=recurring-agenda-item).
+We created or labelled issues:
+
+* [[!issue 119]] -- _Subplot is in not in Debian unstable_
+* [[!issue 272]] -- _Migrate project to issue-based iteration meetings_
+* [[!issue 273]] -- _Perform whole-codebase review and cleanup_
+
+## Scheduling the main repository CI job
+
+We discussed whether it might be worth making the CI job for the main
+repository also run on schedule, maybe an hour after the container
+image one. We decided it'd be worth doing. Lars did that: the schedule
+is that it happens on Saturday now well in advance of the bi-weekly
+Subplot meeting.
+
+## Getting Subplot into Debian
+
+[[!issue 119]] covers this. We added the following comment:
+
+> We should investigate what is missing from Debian which we depend
+> upon, and decide if we can either mitigate that dependency, or would
+> need to ask for that to be packaged as well. Perhaps we can
+> investigate if there's a way to automate the detection of missing
+> dependencies such that we could have a pipeline job which ran on
+> main to tell us the state of play.
+>
+> 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.
+
+## Release plan for this iteration
+
+We plan on making the next release after the current goal is done, and
+then make a release pretty much every iteration. We've gotten badly
+out of habit of making releases.
+
+## Review of the whole code base of Subplot
+
+We created [[!issue 273]], and don't plan to do anything about this
+until after goal 3 is done.
+
+## Reaching out for feedback
+
+We won't be reaching out for feedback until goal 3 is done. We didn't
+open issue for this, to avoid naming people in public.
+
+## A media repository
+
+Regarding the `media` repository question - we believe this is
+premature at this point. We've removed this from the agenda. We'll
+make a repository when there's a need. Until then there's no need to
+keep discussing it.
+
+## Convincing others to try Subplot
+
+We had an issue for this, but it's now closed. We dropped this from
+the agenda.
+
+## Blog post
+
+We decided to blog about the FOSDEM talk, the new domain, and the new
+Matrix room.
+
+## Subplot documentation
+
+We discussed Subplot documentation and opened [[!issue 274]].
+
+# Repository review
+
+We reviewed the open issues, merge requests, and CI pipelines for all
+the projects in the Obnam group on gitlab.com.
+
+## The `subplot` repository
+
+There were 58 open issues, of which 28 were not tagged
+`someday-maybe`. We reviewed the ones that had been updated since the
+previous meeting, and made the following changes:
+
+* [[!issue 270]] -- _Test_
+  - deleted, was a test issue
+* [[!issue 250]] -- _subplotlib could do with unit tests_
+  - the new MR from Daniel fixes some of this; we will review the
+    situation after that is merged
+* [[!issue 214]] -- _Lacks example and docs for using Rust step
+  functions_
+  - Daniel will do an example
+* [[!issue 271]] -- _`subplotlib` should be reviewed for inclusion of
+  attributes such as `#[must_use]`_
+  - created as a split-off issue from 263, put into current goal
+  - Daniel will review
+* [[!issue 263]] -- _What is a good way to include Rust step functions
+  in the crate, when testing a program written in Rust?_
+  - removed from goal 2
+  - we will review this after the current goal
+
+There was one open merge request:
+
+* [[!mr 250]] -- _(subplotlib): Improve step library documentation_
+  - Daniel opened this just before the meeting, Lars will review it soon
+
+There were open, old branches:
+
+* `fix-133` -- had been merged, was now deleted manually
+* `subplot-rust` -- kept until the current goal is finished
+* `docgen-cmark` -- kept until the next goal is finished
+
+CI pipelines are OK.
+
+## The `subplot-web` repository
+
+There were no open issues, no open merge requests, no extra branches,
+and no CI enabled.
+
+## The `subplot-container-images` repository
+
+There was one open issue.
+
+* [subplot-container-images
+  #2](https://gitlab.com/subplot/subplot-container-images/-/issues/2)
+  -- _There is no Docker image for using Subplot_
+  - we're not going to work on this until we stop making breaking
+    changes
+
+There were no open merge requests, no extra branches, and the latest
+run of CI was successful. (That's the run that was automatically
+triggered yesterday.)
+
+# New iteration
+
+## Current goal (not changed this iteration)
+
+The current development goal is:
+
+> 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.
+
+This is represented as label
+[`goal:2`](https://gitlab.com/subplot/subplot/-/issues?sort=created_asc&state=opened&label_name[]=goal::2)
+in the GitLab.com issue tracker.
+
+## Issues for this iteration
+
+We collect issues for this iteration in [[!milestone 45]]. We decided
+to not make a release.
+
+Lars intends to work on:
+
+- [[!mr 250]] -- _(subplotlib): Improve step library documentation_
+- [[!issue 221]] -- _Command line tool has insufficient logging_
+- [[!issue 248]] -- _In Rust runcmd, write exit, stdout and especially stderr upon failure_
+
+Daniel intends to work on:
+
+- [[!issue 214]] -- _Lacks example and docs for using Rust step functions_
+- [[!issue 271]] -- _`subplotlib` should be reviewed for inclusion of attributes such as `#[must_use]`_
+
+
+# Actions
+
+* Lars and Daniel to blog about the FOSDEM talk, the new domain, and
+  the new Matrix room.
+
+# Meeting participants
+
+* Daniel Silverstone
+* Lars Wirzenius