Online Developer Meeting (2024-04-23)

Today's topics[edit]

Timing for next bugfix release
- potential blocker(?): bug #65605: Octave call to function figure(); results in segfault with Qt6 6.7.0
GSoC projects
OctConf 2024
Roadmap and priorities for Octave 10
Discuss a potential timeline for native string class support
Should we make and distribute nightly builds for Windows for the default branch?
Octave in MSYS2 (binary distributor for Windows MinGW)

Timing for next bugfix release (middle of April, approx. one month after the 9.1.0 release)
- bug #65476 (`mkoctfile -p LIBS` includes unnecessary libraries) Done
- Copyright dates for documentation, and possible MXE-Octave files out of date Done
- In the future, we'll likely aim for a .2.0 release around a month after the .1.0 release; a .3.0 around 3 month after the .1.0 release; and a .4.0 release about 6 months after the .1.0 release. If necessary, additional releases are possible in between or after these approximate dates, or some releases could be skipped.
Andreas Bertsatos will open a thread about extracting demos from classdef files [1]
OctConf 2024
- Agreed. Eastern North America likely. Rik will post a poll.
Roadmap and priorities for Octave 10
- Which important features to focus on for Octave 10?
- JWE will try to make MExceptions real classdef objects (not overloadable, fully implemented in C++)
- JWE will try to start a thread on Discourse about potential new features for Octave 10.
Discuss a potential timeline for native string class support