meeting: Record iteration meeting from 20th November

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

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+[[!meta title="Iteration planning: November 6th"]]
+[[!tag meeting]]
+[[!meta date="Sat, 06 Nov 2021 12:00:00 +0200"]]
+
+[[!toc levels=2]]
+
+# Review of actions from last meeting
+
+Actions from last time, and their status are:
+
+- Daniel to ask other Subplot contributors about licence change
+  ([[!issue 229]]).
+  **DONE** We have re-licensed.
+
+# Review of the iteration that has ended
+
+[[!milestone 39]] had the following issued closed:
+
+- [[!issue 249]] MR template claims licence is GPL
+- [[!issue 247]] Make release of subplot
+- [[!issue 245]] Release process should run audit/deny
+- [[!issue 229]] Licensing needs to be clarified
+
+We made no progress on:
+
+- [[!issue 242]] `subplotlib` doesn't use `build.rs` script
+- [[!issue 180]] Doesn't warn about unused embedded files
+
+Significant progress was made on:
+
+- [[!issue 198]] -- _Unify language handling for multi-impl-lang test suites_
+  Where there is now [[!mr 234]].
+
+We moved the remaining open issues to the next milestone ([[!milestone 40]]) and then
+closed off this iteration.
+
+# Review of the repositories
+
+Currently open MRs:
+
+- `subplot`: [[!mr 234]] which is for [[!issue 198]]
+- `subplot-web`: none
+- `subplot-container-images`: none
+
+Extra branches unrelated to MRs:
+
+- `subplot`: none
+  - `subplot-rust` -- Daniel is keeping this around until he has
+    completed the work on [[!issue 198]].
+  - `polyglot-docs` -- Daniel is working on [[!issue 198]] here.
+  - `docgen-cmark` -- Lars is working on making docgen use cmark
+    rather than pandoc for the initial parse and processing.
+- `subplot-web`: none
+- `subplot-container-images`: none
+
+Pipelines:
+
+- `subplot`: clean
+- `subplot-web`: none
+- `subplot-container-images`: clean, and we triggered the one to build
+  a new container image
+
+# Current goal (goal 2; not changed for this iteration)
+
+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 had 50 open issues at the start of the meeting.
+
+We reviewed non-`someday-maybe` issues for `subplot` for all issues.
+We made the following changes:
+
+- [[!issue 133]] _No feature table comparing scenario runners..._ was
+  tentatively added to the milestone.
+- [[!issue 141]] _subplotlib: Needs better test suite_ was tentatively
+  added to the milestone for Daniel to do further breakdown.
+- [[!issue 207]] _Release process is too manual..._ was assigned to Daniel
+  and tentatively added to the milestone.
+- [[!issue 214]] _Lacks example and docs for Rust step functions_ was
+  assigned to Lars and tentatively added to the milestone
+- [[!issue 218]] _Automatable parts of release process are too manual_ was
+  tentatively added to the milestone and assigned to Daniel
+- [[!issue 221]] _Command line tool has insufficient logging_ was tentatively
+  added to the milestone
+- [[!issue 241]] _./check doesn't build/test all of the workspace_ we removed
+  the blocker issue marker, and tentatively added it to the milestone.
+- [[!issue 250]] _subplotlib could do with unit tests_ is part of [[!issue 141]].
+- [[!issue 251]] and [[!issue 252]] are at least partially stuck because of our MSRV.
+- [[!issue 253]] _We depend on a crate with a GPL-3.0-or-later licence_ We expect
+  Lars will release a new `roadmap` with MIT-0, as such once that's done, this issue
+  will be resolved by way of an MR with a `Cargo.{toml,lock}` update.
+- [[!issue 254]] _Make release..._ was assigned to Daniel and put tentatively into
+  the milestone.
+
+We left the docker-for-subplot issue alone, and subplot-web had no issues.
+
+# Other discussion
+
+- We had a discussion and agreed that goal 2 doesn't need significant
+  QoL changes right now.
+
+# Plan for next iteration
+
+We opened [[!milestone 40]] to cover this iteration, with the
+following issues:
+
+- [[!issue 254]] _Make release..._
+- [[!issue 242]] _`subplotlib` doesn't use `build.rs` script_
+- [[!issue 241]] _./check doesn't build/test all of the workspace_
+- [[!issue 218]] _Automatable parts of release process are too manual_
+- [[!issue 207]] _Release process is too manual..._
+- [[!issue 198]] _Unify language handling..._ (Lars is reviewing [[!mr 234]])
+- [[!issue 180]] _Doesn't warn about unused embedded files_
+- [[!issue 141]] _subplotlib: Needs better test suite_
+- [[!issue 133]] _No feature table..._
+
+We removed the assignments for following issues during the review/plan, but left
+them in the iteration just in case.
+
+- [[!issue 221]] _Command line tool has insufficient logging_
+- [[!issue 214]] _Lacks example and docs for Rust step functions_
+
+# Other business
+
+- We decided to make a release of whatever is in the `main` branch and
+  label it 0.3.2 or 0.4.0, depending on whether it has breaking
+  changes or not.
+
+- We are not yet ready to file an RFP bug to get Subplot packaged for
+  Debian. It will happen after we think we won't be making breaking
+  changes anymore.
+
+- We are not yet ready to make a whole code base review of Subplot.
+  However we feel at least part of the new goal 3 will be reviewing a
+  portion of the code.
+
+- We will switch an issue based agenda when other people join the
+  meeting.
+
+- We won't be reaching out for feedback until goal 3 is done.
+
+- We will continue to work on our talk outline while waiting for
+  the FOSDEM CfP.
+
+- If the FOSDEM talk looks suitable, we'll submit it to Rustfest too.
+
+- Regarding the `media` repository question - we believe this is
+  premature at this point - once we are ready to write the talk
+  mentioned above, it will be time for the repository.
+
+- Lars will be opening communications with the WMF around supporting
+  their use of Subplot for `scap`.
+
+- We do not want to replace `./check` for now, and we do not want
+  to drop Python support as a test language. Eventually we want to
+  replace `./check` with something in Rust, but not in this goal.
+
+# Actions
+
+- Daniel and Lars to keep an eye on the FOSDEM CfP (30th Nov) and
+  together decide if/where to submit a talk.