Iteration notes, 2021-04-24

Signed-off-by: Daniel Silverstone <dsilvers@digital-scurf.org>

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+[[!meta title="Iteration planning: April 24th"]]
+[[!tag meeting]]
+[[!meta date="2021-04-24 18:30"]]
+
+[[!toc levels=2]]
+
+# Review of actions from last meeting
+
+- Dan remains not in a position to work on [[!issue 22]], which is
+  fine, it can wait until he is able to help. We're carrying this
+  action
+
+- Daniel to file an issue to create issue templates based on
+  <https://third-bit.com/2021/01/18/how-to-write-a-memo/>. This is
+  now done as [[!issue 184]]
+
+# Review of the iteration that has ended
+
+We made good progress on [[!milestone 26]].
+
+We achieved:
+
+- [[!issue 175]]
+- [[!issue 174]]
+- [[!issue 171]]
+- [[!issue 169]]
+- [[!issue 161]]
+- [[!issue 137]]
+- [[!issue 116]]
+- [[!issue 108]]
+
+We did not complete [[!issue 173]] (or rather there is pending queries against
+it), and while we made progress on [[!issue 127]] we are not finished with it
+yet. [[!issue 22]] is carried.
+
+# Review of the repositories
+
+There were no pending merge requests for subplot-web. There is one MR in subplot
+outstanding wrt. `pandoc_ast` ([[!mr 155]]). There are no vestigial branches.
+
+# Issue review
+
+Subplot-web has no open issues.
+
+We reviewed all open issues this time around. Where we made changes, see below.
+
+- [[!issue 22]] was tentatively put into the new iteration
+- [[!issue 176]] was tentatively put into the new iteration and assigned to Daniel
+- [[!issue 74]] was subtly retitled to indicate `bash` is the only waiting impl.
+- [[!issue 118]] was tentatively put into the new iteration and assigned to Lars
+- [[!issue 126]] we added a note that this can be closed once we have documented
+  the decision (and mechanism) of updating the dependencies in the release cycle.
+- [[!issue 127]] we had moved over to the new iteration, and we agreed that
+  Lars will either close it, or update it with what more needs doing at some
+  point during the iteration.
+- [[!issue 141]] we added the `someday-maybe` label
+- [[!issue 160]] we linked Lars' release notes for his personal projects
+- [[!issue 163]] Daniel ticked the first TODO item.
+- [[!issue 177]] was tentatively put into the iteration
+- [[!issue 178]] was tentatively put into the iteration and assigned to Daniel
+- [[!issue 179]] we added `mentor` and `feature`.
+- [[!issue 180]] we added a comment about maybe how to achieve this.
+  We also labelled it `someday-maybe`.
+- [[!issue 181]] Daniel added a description of where we are and what we should do.
+  We tentatively added it to the iteration and assigned it to Daniel
+- [[!issue 182]] we tentatively added to the iteration and assigned to Lars
+- [[!issue 183]] we tentatively added to the iteration and assigned to Lars
+- [[!issue 184]] we added the `documentation` tag
+- [[!issue 185]] we tentatively added to the iteration and assigned to Lars
+
+# Current goal
+
+Our current goal is to get Subplot the software and project into such
+a shape that we feel confident that we can ask a few people to give it
+a proper try. This requires for Subplot to have releases that are easy
+to install, tolerably easy to use, and to have at least some
+rudimentary documentation aimed at beginners.
+
+# Plan for next iteration
+
+We created [[!milestone 27]] for the iteration starting now and ending
+in two weeks on 2021-05-08.
+
+We agreed with the assignments we had made in the review period, and we kept
+[[!issue 22]] in case Dan turns up.
+
+# What do we need to persuade others?
+
+Nothing new came up. We're making progress, though.
+
+# Other business
+
+## Whole codebase review of Subplot
+
+Lars brought this up - it's not relevant for the current goal, but he wanted to
+bring it up for discussion now to let simmer and come up with a good approach
+for how to do this. Daniel suggested we should write a high level software
+architecture document since that would help us to understand the codebase's
+structure. We will keep this as a permanent agenda item until we have achieved
+a full codebase review.
+
+## Subplot organisation on Gitlab
+
+We created https://gitlab.com/subplot/ and made sure Daniel and Lars were both
+owners. Importantly Daniel can create repositories etc. here.
+
+When we move the subplot-web repository, we will have to update the website
+mirroring. When we move the subplot repository we will have to update the
+mirroring to Lars' server, the website's `shortcuts.mdwn` and any other external
+links that we have, including any clones we have.
+
+## Using Gitlab CI pipelines for subplot
+
+We've decided to at least use pipelines to test MRs. In the future we may
+choose to automate some of the release process with them, but since we have not
+defined a release process yet, this is not for now.
+
+# Actions
+
+- Lars or Daniel to schedule pairing session with Dan to help him work
+  through [[!issue 22]].
+
+- Move the subplot-web and subplot repositories to the new subplot organisation
+  at some point during the iteration.