Do those xes signify something?

I wasn't in this meeting but I'm taking it to mean not-present and we continued this convention in the last meeting as well. Seems like that's not clear so do you have a better suggestion that's simple for note-takers? Deleting names has proven to be annoying for various reasons, although I guess I could remove them when I PR the minutes.

Maybe replace the x-es with (absent)?

great, done

Hmmm under the heading "Present" , we are mentioning "absent"?

I assume it's the actual chat transcript. If so we don't have to fix these typos

More likely it was them expressing roughly the same thing and it was summarised in a single line for the sake of speed, it's pretty hard capturing discussion in real-time, we're not very skilled at taking it slowly!

So this is probably a typo, you're welcome to use your amazing fourth eye to point out typos and I'll happily fix them.

:-) :-) Sure, I can point them out whenever I find :-) But then we can leave the chat transcripts as they are right? It would give the readers a feel that they are really dealing with humans, who can make mistakes just like them :D