AYAB 1.0 dev meeting March '23

Last meeting was pretty quiet.

eKnitter is doing things. We'll see how that goes.

Intros 

# Testing strategy
- Sam can publish artifacts to github
- Developer survey looking for testers
- Adrienne can help organize testing the backlog of bugs
- Github project management feature to help classify bugs

# 1.0 features
- Garter carriage
- Going through the backlog: https://github.com/orgs/AllYarnsAreBeautiful/projects/1/views/1
  - Lots of documentation is missing. We're going to go through everything on our own.
  - Lots of things may be out of date.
- 270: Not sure what work needs to happen. Setting as a stretch goal.
- Mac needs to launch properly

- Starting from the right could be implemented fully on the 930. Needs a hardware mod on the 910. 

# Supported OS
- Currently supported
  - Windows: 64bit only 7, 10, 11
  - Linux: Debian only? App containers? Expect the Linux people to be able to handle their own things. Expect that people can figure it out.
  - Mac: Has install issues. Packaging in the executable is tricky. Not platform agonstic to begin with. Signed installer Windell worked on for 0.95. Will need a new solution. Windell shoudl be able to help again. Apple wants money.
    - How far back should we support?: Currently 10.15 - Catalina. No analytics to know who's using what OS, legal issues collecting in Europe. Depends on what Github supports, will start there. Some little survey in the download page? 

# Funding
 - Github sponsors: can get funding for sponsors
 - Do we need funding to keep infra running: Not at the moment. Using the free tier. Scale for free for open source should be high.
 
# Hardware
 - Starting from the right could be implemented fully on the 930. Needs a hardware mod on the 910. 
 - Do we want to cut a new rev or wait and see if eKnitter does well? We don't know how they will operate. We don't know if their hardware will be open source.
 - Should we mod the existing hardware?
 - Need a way to check which version of the hardware you're using. Should be doable.
 - Fix might just need a new cable for old hardware.
 - We should see about building a new version that can be automatically assembled. Make it easier to distribute.
 - All of the hardware can be done in parallel with the 1.0 software release.
 
# Open issues that need some attention
 - Image jumps around in the view #210
 - Solenoids clunk sometimes. eKnitter claims to have fixed this.
 - DBJ algorithms for feature complete with Brother
 - Memo line like Brother punch cards. Remind user to do things. Maybe for the next release after 1.0.
  - Discussion with GSOC team a few years ago. Universal knitting file format.
 - We should look at the future of the project after the 1.0 release.
 - 1.0 release doesn't need to be at feature parity with Brother, just good enough.
 - We need a build toolchain for each platform
 - Arduino Mega, did it ever work? Should we say we don't support it?
 
 # Next steps
  - Monthly meeting. Carson to schedule
  - Set build toolchains as a task for the tracker, no one can commit
  - Carson to put togehter onboarding survey.
  - Everyone to look through open issues for relevance.