[[!meta title="Iteration planning: January 15th"]]
[[!tag meeting]]
[[!meta date="Sat, 15 Jan 2022 14:15:00 +0000"]]

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# Review of actions from previous meeting

Actions from last time, and their status are:

- **DONE:** Daniel will review Lars' gripes and look to file appropriate issues
  to cover correcting the problems
  - no actual issues filed yet
- **DONE:** Between Daniel and Lars - the talk will be drafted.

# Review of the iteration that has ended

[[!milestone 42]] represented this iteration.

We completed:

- [[!issue 259]] _Top level subplots should be run in Rust too_
  - `subplot.md` is now run with the Rust step functions, via `cargo
    test`
  - we now have bindings files that work for both Python and Rust for
    the `lib/files` and `lib/runcmd` libraries that come with Subplot

We made some progress on:

- [[!issue 251]] _We depend on a vulnerable version of chrono_
  - upstream hasn't released a fix
  - Lars looked at dropping chrono as a dependency, but couldn't find
    a reasonable way to do that, and then gave up
- [[!issue 252]] _We transitively depend on a vulnerable version of
  time_
  - this is basically just a duplicate of the chrono issue

We made no progress on:

- [[!issue 133]] _No feature table comparing scenario runners from
  different codegen templates_

We moved the open issues to the milestone for the iteration staring
and then closed off this iteration.

# Review of the repositories

Currently open MRs:

- `subplot`: none
- `subplot-web`: none
- `subplot-container-images`: none

Extra branches unrelated to MRs:

- `subplot`:
  - `subplot-rust` -- Daniel is keeping this around until he has
    completed the work on [[!issue 141]].
  - `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 58 open issues at the start of the meeting.

We reviewed all issues for `subplot`, except ones labelled
`someday-maybe`. There were 29 of these.

We made a few additional comments and adjusted labels.

We left the docker-for-subplot issue alone, and subplot-web had no issues.

# Plan for next iteration

We opened [[!milestone 43]] to cover this iteration, with the
following issues:

- [[!issue 133]] _No feature table comparing scenario runners from different codegen templates_
- [[!issue 221]] _Command line tool has insufficient logging_
- [[!issue 243]] _Doesn't do "and" automatically_
- [[!issue 248]] _In Rust runcmd, write exit, stdout and especially stderr upon failure_
- [[!issue 251]] _We depend on a vulnerable version of chrono_
- [[!issue 252]] _We transitively depend on a vulnerable version of time_

# Other business

## Talk at FOSDEM on Subplot

Daniel has talked to safety people at his work and gotten valuable
feedback for the talk. He wants to have a finished draft of the talk,
ready for recording, by the end of this iteration. Lars will be
available for review.

## Release plan for this iteration

We decided to defer making a release of whatever is in the `main`
branch until we have done our talk. When we do, we'll label it 0.3.2
or 0.4.0, depending on whether it has breaking changes or not.
[[!issue 254]]

## Getting Subplot into Debian

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 probably want to do a review of the dependencies
as well, to make packaging easier.

## Review of the whole code base of Subplot

We are not yet ready to make a whole code base review of Subplot.
However we feel at least part of goal 3 will be reviewing a portion of
the code.

## Issue based agenda

We will switch an issue based agenda when other people join the
meeting.

## Reaching out for feedback

We won't be reaching out for feedback until goal 3 is done.

## A media repository

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.

## Convincing to try Subplot

No new thoughts yet.

# Actions

* None.