Iteration meeting, 17th July 2021

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

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+[[!meta title="Iteration planning: July 17"]]
+[[!tag meeting]]
+[[!meta date="2021-07-17 13:40"]]
+
+[[!toc levels=2]]
+
+# Review of actions from last meeting
+
+- There were no actions.
+
+# Review of the iteration that has ended
+
+[[!milestone 31]] was extended into iteration. Due to life and heat waves
+interfering, we were slow before, but we finished the release this time
+around.
+
+This was a really important step for us because we got out a release which we
+want others to try. It's now a long slog to getting people to actually try
+Subplot.
+
+# Review of the repositories
+
+No in-progress MRs in any of the repositories. No spare branches in the
+container images or web repositories. The "Rust for subplot.md" branch
+remains in the subplot repository. Pipelines all looked good.
+
+# Current goal
+
+## Discussion
+
+When reviewing the issues we tentatively put into our new goal we decided
+that it makes sense to only have one significant feature change per goal.
+We identified that both conditional/subroutine scenarios and the unification
+of language handling were large amounts of work and so we decided to pick
+only one for our new goal (2).
+
+After discussion we chose language unification for this goal.
+
+## New definition
+
+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.
+
+# Issue review
+
+We reviewed all issues, from the group level:
+<https://gitlab.com/groups/subplot/-/issues>
+
+- [[!issue 6]] we tweaked the title of the issue slightly.
+- [[!issue 20]] we moved to goal 3
+- [[!issue 22]] we discussed and decided what we have is "good enough" so we
+  closed it.
+- [[!issue 74]] we took out of the goal, and made someday-maybe
+- [[!issue 78]] we added a relates-to [[!issue 165]]
+- [[!issue 96]] we removed someday-maybe, added goal 2, assigned to Lars
+- [[!issue 120]] was tentatively added to this iteration
+- [[!issue 132]] was changed to goal 3
+- [[!issue 177]] was moved to the container-images repository
+- [[!issue 202]] was put into goal 2 and assigned to Daniel
+- [[!issue 205]] was put into goal 2 and assigned to Daniel
+- [[!issue 206]] was tentatively added to the iteration
+- [[!issue 207]] was labelled with goal 2 and tracking. We assigned it Lars
+  and put it into the iteration with a goal of creating the sub-issues.
+
+We then had a discussion about [[!issue 198]]
+
+We removed the active-discussion label after discussing the proposal, assigned
+it to Daniel, and put it into the iteration.
+
+# Plan for next iteration
+
+We opened [[!milestone 32]] to cover this iteration. It has seven
+issues:
+
+- [[!issue 207]] - Lars will split this into sub-issues. He makes no promises to
+  actually do them though.
+- [[!issue 206]] - Lars will have a go at figuring out why this is happening,
+  again no promises.
+- [[!issue 205]] - Daniel will do this because it blocks Lucas
+- [[!issue 202]] - Daniel will do this because it's daft that it happens
+- [[!issue 198]] - Daniel will make a strong start on this, but can't guarantee
+  to have finished it.
+- [[!issue 120]] - Lars will do this
+- [[!issue 96]] - Lars will do this
+
+In addition, we decided to not make a release in this iteration.
+
+# Other business
+
+We deferred the discussion about using `cargo release` until Daniel has tried it
+on a multi-crate project.
+
+We discussed feedback from the release.
+
+- Feedback from Lucas was already known - nixos issues.
+- Richard Maw submitted a few MRs to fix typos, which was nice (painful, but
+  nice)
+- Lare tried the tutorial which had the wrong binary names. We fixed the
+  tutorial and are now waiting for further feedback.
+- No feedback yet from Serbitar
+- Feedback from Minoru (who is involved with Obnam)
+  <https://functional.cafe/@minoru/106590524492405719>
+- Nothing back from Finn as yet.
+- No feedback yet from JR at the Wikimedia Foundation.
+
+We decided that we should compile a list of _new_ people to reach out to at
+the end of goal 2, and we put Russ Alberry on that list.
+
+# Actions
+
+No actions.