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+[[!meta title="Iteration planning note: May 23"]]
+[[!tag meeting]]
+[[!meta date="2020-05-23 19:34"]]
+
+# What has happened
+
+* We **didn't get all issues done** that we'd assigned. Daniel didn't have
+  the energy to write scenarios to test his code changes. Lars didn't
+  have time or energy to implement parameterised scenarios. It's not a
+  big deal, but we clearly were too ambitious when allocating things
+  for the iteration ending. We will try to do better.
+
+# Discussion
+
+* There were three outstanding **merge requests**, marked
+  work-in-progress. They are carried over to the iteration starting.
+
+* We reviewed all **open issues**, and closed one of them, and assigned a
+  small number to the iteration starting.
+
+* We discussed again the **need for more contributors**. We feel we
+  need a **typesetting** person, and a **Bash** script person.
+  However, we're not ready to actively recruit people we don't know,
+  and we don't want to try to recruit people we do know more
+  forcefully than we already have.
+  
+* We discussed the **minimum supported Rust version for Subplot**. We feel
+  there's three candidates that make sense: the version in Debian 10
+  (buster) and its backports; the version in the upcoming Debian 11
+  (bullseye); and the current Rust stable release. Those are the
+  important versions for us. It doesn't really make sense to support
+  versions of Rust older than the current stable version that isn't in
+  Debian.
+  
+  At the same time, we don't want to force a very old version of Rust
+  on the Subplot project, as it will require putting in workarounds
+  that are technical debt. We already had this with `as_ref` but chose
+  the workaround for now.
+
+  For now, we'll support the **Debian 10 version of Rust**. We may
+  change this later, and add make the automated test suite pick a
+  version we want to check with. For now, we don't want to do that
+  work.
+
+* We probably want to make Subplot installable via Cargo and start
+  **making releases**. Some day.
+
+* We discussed starting another side project, jt, and will be
+  sketching a subplot for it.
+
+# Actions
+
+* Lars to write these notes.