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[[!meta title="Iteration planning: September 11–24"]]
[[!meta date="2022-09-11 18:15:00 +0300"]]
[[!tag meeting]]
[[!toc levels=2]]
# Actions from last time
- **NOT DONE** Daniel to open an issue with Cargo to discuss binary-only dependencies.
- **SKIPPED** Lars to prepare an abstract and outline for a talk for EuroRust for us to
review and make a decision about whether or not to submit at the next meeting.
- see below
- **DONE** Lars to use his new tool to produce a list of dependencies which Subplot
has, which are not currently met by the packages in Debian.
- list was shared on the Matrix channel
# Assessment of the iteration that has ended
We extended, by mutual agreement on Matrix, this iteration was extended
by four weeks. Life and work intruded.
We had chosen the following issues for this iteration:
- **DONE** [[!subplotissue 290]] -- _Cargo.toml: homepage URL is wrong_
- **NOT DONE** [[!webissue 4]] -- _Review FAQ_
- **DONE** [[!subplotissue 283]] -- _YAML metadata is not in its own
file_
- there is an MR: ([[!mr 287]]
- **NOT DONE** [[!subplotissue 287]] -- _Needs documentation for Rust
step functions for implementing contexts_
Lars feels good about having finally gotten the YAML metadata change
done. However, we've slowed down with Subplot development and may need
to do something. Most of the reason for slowing down is work and life
requiring attention, but we don't feel like want to give up on either.
# Discussion
## EuroRust in October in Berlin
Lars did not have time to propose a talk at the conference, and
decided he can't afford to go at his own expense, so Subplot won't be
at that EuroRust.
## The gitlab.com hosting situation
We reviewed [the billing
page](https://gitlab.com/groups/subplot/-/billings) for Subplot on
gitlab.com. It all looks OK. We're over the limit on seats, but it
seems we can increase the seats for free.
We will review the billing page every iteration or two.
## Repository review
We reviewed issues updated since the previous
meeting, merge requests, and CI pipelines for all the projects in the
[Subplot group](https://gitlab.com/subplot) on gitlab.com.
### [Subplot Container Images](https://gitlab.com/subplot/subplot-container-images)
- Open issues: 1
- Merge requests: 0
- Additional branches: 0
- CI: OK, ran on Friday
### [subplot-web](https://gitlab.com/subplot/subplot-web)
- Open issues: 1
- Merge requests: 1 (this meeting)
- Additional branches: 1 (this meeting)
- CI: Ick, OK.
### [subplot](https://gitlab.com/subplot/subplot)
- Open issues: 52, we didn't review issues much
- Merge requests: 0
- Additional branches:
- `docgen-cmark`, Lars is keeping this around for reference for
future changes
- CI: OK
## Recurring items issues
There are some issues tagged
[`recurring-agenda-item`](https://gitlab.com/groups/subplot/-/issues/?sort=created_asc&state=opened&label_name%5B%5D=recurring-agenda-item&first_page_size=20)
in the issue tracker, which we discuss in every iteration meeting.
- [[!subplotissue 119]] -- _Subplot is in not in Debian unstable_
- we will work on reducing Subplot dependencies that aren't already
in Debian
- [[!subplotissue 272]] -- _Migrate project to issue-based iteration
meetings_
- we will try a "merge request based approach" instead, for a few
iterations
- Lars has tried this in the Obnam project and it has worked OK
- Daniel agrees that so far this feels better.
- We will try for another iteration or two, before deciding.
- [[!subplotissue 273]] -- _Perform whole-codebase review and cleanup_
- we are not up to doing this yet
# Goals
## Goal 3: Current goal
Subplot is altered to treat a YAML document as the root of any subplot
document, permitting multiple markdown files to be joined into a
single scenario set or output document. We remove our dependency on
Pandoc’s AST for internal document representation, and support a
better range of document metadata as a result. We will use marked data
types where possible to permit better provenance information in error
and warning messages; and we will strive to reenable the reference
tests such that we can make a statement to the effect that post goal
3, we do not intend to make further breaking changes to the input
formats or primary behaviours of Subplot.
([Related issues on gitlab](https://gitlab.com/subplot/subplot/-/issues?label_name%5B%5D=goal%3A%3A3))
## Goal 4: Planned
This goal is very likely to change. This is merely an initial sketch.
We'll improve documentation and generally aim at making Subplot more
plausibly usable by people outside of the Subplot project.
([Related issues on gitlab](https://gitlab.com/subplot/subplot/-/issues?label_name%5B%5D=goal%3A%3A4))
# Plan for new iteration
## Issues
We intend to work on the following issues:
- [[!webissue 4]] -- _Review FAQ_
- [[!subplotissue 287]] -- _Needs documentation for Rust step
functions for implementing contexts_
- [[!subplotissue 298]] -- _Needs a release with the external YAML
metadata file support_
## Actions
These are in addition to work on issues chosen for this iteration.
* Lars to look at what it would take to use the `pulldown_cmark`
parser for Markdown, instead of Pandoc, and make a concrete proposal
of how to approach that.
* Lars to discuss Subplot dependencies that aren't packaged in Debian,
and propose concrete steps to reduce the delta.
* Daniel to open an issue with Cargo to discuss binary-only dependencies.
# Meeting participants
- Daniel Silverstone
- Lars Wirzenius
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