Note about missing previous sync

We decided that we’d not achieved enough and were both busy enough that we wished to skip the iteration meeting for the 13th March, deferring it to today.

Review of actions from last meeting.

• Dan remains not in a position to work on Subplot issue 22 which is fine, it can wait until he is able to help. We’re carrying this action

• Daniel still needs to file an issue to create issue templates based on https://third-bit.com/2021/01/18/how-to-write-a-memo/. We’re carying this action.

Review of the iteration that has ended

We’ve been busy with life and work and other projects this iteration, so we didn’t get everything done for Subplot milestone 24.

We did achieve:

• Subplot issue 162 - Change ./check to treat Rust warnings as errors, with an option to override that
• Subplot issue 168 - Running ./check modifies subplotlib/tests/files.rs

In addition, Lars filed Subplot issue 173 about a table which can’t be processed by Subplot. Daniel investigated and found that there’s a potential bug in pandoc_ast (or in Pandoc itself).

We closed Subplot issue 166 as invalid since it turns out that the busy-wait was already solved in-repo.

Daniel was also working toward Subplot issue 164 but it’s not ready for review yet.

Review of the repositories

There were no pending merge requests for subplot-web. There is a WIP MR for some work Daniel is doing in subplot.

There were no extra branches in subplot-web.

We binned the wait-for-port branch in subplot since it was a failed experiment into changing daemon.py a bit.

Issue review

We reviewed all issues and updated them based on discussion.

• Subplot issue 22 We promoted this to current-goal
• Subplot issue 98 Until we actually need this, there’s no need to keep it open so Lars added a note and closed it.
• Subplot issue 126 We removed the actively-discussed label as we think it’s settled.
• Subplot issue 127 We added the hard label.
• Subplot issue 165 We removed actively-discussed and added someday-maybe as labels.
• Subplot issue 170 We added hard, feature, someday-maybe, and docgen labels.
• Subplot issue 171 We added bug, easy, and testing labels.
• Subplot issue 172 We described what we should do, updated the title, and added the codegen and testing labels.

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 Subplot milestone 25 for the iteration starting now and ending in two weeks on 2021-04-11.

We picked the following issues to work on for Lars:

• Subplot issue 108 Testing against currently working subplots
• Subplot issue 137 check script should report missing tooling
• Subplot issue 169 remove use of anyhow::Result
• Subplot issue 171 ./check doesn’t process subplots under examples/

For Daniel:

• Subplot issue 164 - Refactor CLI into single subcommand binary
• Subplot issue 161 - Use git-testament for versioning
• Subplot issue 116 - Subplot documentation needs to explain scenario language more effectively
• Subplot issue 173 - Table causes docgen to fail

Up for grabs if anyone has time:

• Subplot issue 22 - PlantUML jar and java locations should be configurable
  • depends on Dan’s availability.

What do we need to persuade others?

Nothing new came up.

Actions

• Lars or Daniel to schedule pairing session with Dan to help him work through Subplot issue 22.

• Daniel to file an issue to create issue templates based on https://third-bit.com/2021/01/18/how-to-write-a-memo/.