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+[[!meta title="Iteration planning: May 8th"]]
+[[!tag meeting]]
+[[!meta date="2021-05-08 17:00"]]
+
+[[!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
+
+- We moved subplot and subplot-web to the new organisation on gitlab.
+
+# Review of the iteration that has ended
+
+We made good progress on [[!milestone 27]].
+
+We achieved:
+
+- [[!issue 189]] - Warning on use for split binaries
+- [[!issue 185]] - reference test failure fix
+- [[!issue 183]] - missing build dependencies
+- [[!issue 178]] - CI for merge requests
+- [[!issue 176]] - rename sp-filter binary
+- [[!issue 127]] - better logging of context dicts
+
+We did not complete:
+
+- [[!issue 182]] - test suite was writing into `share/` - this is in progress,
+  Lars has pushed a branch (`check`) and Daniel will take a look in the next
+  iteration.
+- [[!issue 181]] - can't run subplot from different directory.
+  There is [[!mr 163]] open for this. Lars had a comment, we'll finish this
+  up in the next iteration.
+- [[!issue 173]] - Tables causing docgen failure.
+  Daniel pushed a change which nominally covers this in the previous iteration,
+  but this requires recompiling subplot. We had a discussion during the
+  iteration meeting and closed this.
+- [[!issue 118]] - Checking and updating docs for use-case. Lars has started to
+  think about this. We had a chat about what we might want the use-case to be,
+  and Lars suggested web-site check. Perhaps we can do this against
+  subplot.liw.fi?
+- [[!issue 22]] - This holds for now.
+
+We started but did not make much progress on [[!issue 177]] (no docker image for
+using subplot). Daniel doesn't think this is particularly useful at this time,
+and Lars agreed. For now we're putting this back to someday-maybe.
+
+# Review of the repositories
+
+There were no pending merge requests for subplot-web. There is one MR in subplot
+outstanding wrt. `resources: Use new path checking order` ([[!mr 163]]). There
+is the `check` branch Lars pushed for Daniel to look at later.
+
+We discussed [[!mr 163]] and Lars decided to accept the current env var name of
+`FALLBACK_PATH` and so merged the MR.
+
+# Issue review
+
+Subplot-web has no open issues.
+
+We reviewed all open issues last time, so we only did recent issues this time
+around. Where we made changes, see below.
+
+- [[!issue 179]] (When I run, in blahdir,... for Rust) - tentatively added to
+  next iteration
+- [[!issue 184]] (issue templates) - tentatively added to the next iteration
+- [[!issue 187]] (README updates) - tentatively added to the next iteration
+- [[!issue 188]] (subplot libraries - redo with simple bindings) - added `someday-maybe`
+- [[!issue 163]] (tracking - single binary) - We ticked box 2 and agreed that
+  box 3 needs doing. We created [[!issue 192]] to do this.
+- [[!issue 190]] (check/CI slow) - We added a comment about a good first step
+  (measurement) and labelled the issue appropriately
+- [[!issue 191]] (subplot export) - We reworked the title and description and we
+  labelled it up for work at some future time.
+
+# 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 28]] for the iteration starting now and ending
+in two weeks on 2021-05-22.
+
+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
+
+## Subplot organisation on Gitlab
+
+We are fairly happy with how this went (Indeed Lars is considering doing
+similarly for Obnam).
+
+## Using Gitlab CI pipelines for subplot
+
+Unobtrusive and functioning - we're happy with them
+
+# Actions
+
+- Lars or Daniel to schedule pairing session with Dan to help him work
+  through [[!issue 22]].