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+[[!meta title="Iteration planning notes"]]
+[[!tag meeting]]
+[[!meta date="2019-10-22 11:17"]]
+
+Daniel and Lars met online to disuss recent happenings and to plan the
+next iteration. There was a long pause due to technical difficulties
+(read: the Internet was down and it took a long time for the ISP to
+fix it).
+
+# What has happened
+
+* Lars gave a talk about Subplot to the Rust Finland meetup.
+
+* Development is slowly making progress. Docgen is making output,
+  though typesetting is not yet informed by step bindings. That will
+  happen next. This will also be useful for codegen.
+
+* Subplot is now (also) hosted on gitlab.com.
+  <https://gitlab.com/larswirzenius/subplot>
+
+# Discussion
+
+* We'll use GitLab for issue tracking, for now.
+
+* We'll wait until Subplot at least does typesetting informed by
+  bindings before approaching friends and colleagues and contects for
+  more feedback.
+
+* We'll start by only implementing regular expressions for patterns,
+  even though we'll want something else in the long run. We know, from
+  prototype trial, that many people, including programmers, find
+  regexes painful to use. Also, later on we'll want to have typed
+  captures from steps&mdash;string, integer, filename, JSON,
+  etc&mdash;for better compile-time error checking, and easier
+  function implementation. Simple first, powerful later.
+
+* We'd love to have something like plantuml for code blocks, but
+  preferably something better. plantuml is written in Java, and the
+  Debian packaging of some of its dependencies are a bit tricky to
+  install in a container. It's also a little slow. But we don't know
+  of anything better. We might look into this later, but it's not an
+  urgent concern. We can live with just dot, for now.
+
+* We don't really want to call Subplot a BDD tool, since it's testing
+  is so much less important for Subplot than the communication of
+  acceptance criteria, and building a consensus on them and their
+  verification.
+
+* A long discussion on Gherkin, Cucumber, and whether we should base
+  Subplot on one or both of them. We decided against that. It seems to
+  us that Gherkin is more about expressing the tests, and less about
+  documenting the consensus of what acceptance criteria are, and
+  Subplot emphasises the conseus heavily. We also want the freedom to
+  improve the input language for Subplot without rupturing the
+  Cucumber ecosystem with incompatible dialects. The Subplot language
+  is inspired and influenced by Gherkin, but clearly a separate thing,
+  despite the similarities.
+
+  That said, we intend to borrow from Gherkin anything we like. We
+  already decided to borrow "but" as an alias for "and", and will
+  lookg into parameterizing scenarios and having tables of parameters
+  to allow running the same steps in a variety of ways.
+
+* We decided to make the first output language codegen support so to
+  be shell. It is the easiest for our potential users to get started
+  with, and sufficient for many things. Later, we'll add support for
+  Python and Rust.
+
+# Planned actions for new iteration, to end November 2
+
+Daniel:
+
+* Set up a shared way to keep track of things for the next meeting's
+  agenda.
+
+* Mentor Lars on Rust. Give feedback on bindings support as it's
+  developed.
+
+Lars:
+
+* Add note to the "contributing" page on the website to ask for help
+  with site content and structure.
+
+* Add a list of talks about Subplot to the site.
+
+* Add link to site to GitLab repository. Also, README.
+
+* Put a copy of the success levels for Subplot on the site.
+
+* Develop a first rough version of bindings support for docgen. Does
+  not need to support codegen yet.