Editing Online Developer Meeting (2022-04-26)

* Date: Tuesday, April 26, 2022 @ 18:00 UTC
* Location: https://meet.jit.si/octave-dev

== Todays topics ==

* Meet and greet 5 minutes before meeting (audio testing).

* Performance over time (Arun, Rik)
** [https://octave.discourse.group/t/a-small-benchmark-for-interpreted-code-for-three-versions-of-octave/2531/4 Discourse thread for background]
** Analysis and profiling of existing code base -- share and solicit experiences.
** Performance benchmark to track speed over time as part of CI?

* GSoC: call for mentors (Nir/Kai)
** Interesting mentors should write to Nir or Kai before: 2022-05-06, ideally before.
** Final deadline (to the sponsor) is May 12.

* Octave 7.1.0 post-release remarks:
** Overall time from merge of default to stable (2021-11-24) until release of version 7.1.0 (2022-04-06): approx. 4 months
*** Why does it take us so long for the last couple of releases?
*** Should we start the release process earlier?
** A couple of bugs have been solved on the stable branch since the release. Last time we released 6.2.0 pretty early after 6.1.0. Should we do the same again?
** Regressions that should probably be solved before a potential 7.2.0:
*** bug {{bug|62308}}: use of octave::feval causes error: function '...' not found
*** patch {{patch|10200}}: wrong axes using stairs in subplot  ---  This affects a lot more plotting functions besides stairs. They always plot into <code>gca</code> and ignore the input axes handle.
*** others?

* Wikipedia updates - minor updates needed to bring up to date.	
** see https://octave.discourse.group/t/octave-wikipedia-pages/2600/1

== Previous topics ==
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=== Octave 7 RC 2 ===
* No major bugs remain, next will be final release.
** Done! jwe uploaded 7.1 on 2022-April-06.
* <strike>Bug {{bug|62207}} "segfault in bug-35881/bug-35881.tst in 32-bit ARM and MIPS" appeared.  But maybe not a blocker, as only 32-bit ARM and MIPS seems affected.  No Octave maintainer can reproduce due to missing hardware.</strike> Was solved and tested on the platforms.

=== NumFOCUS ===

* https://octave.discourse.group/t/apply-for-numfocus-sponsoring/2328
** Kai reached out for them.  Form filled out with email confirmation.  Application deadline July 15 (Round 2), Notifications will be sent on or before: August 31 (Round 2).  Major issue: Missing Code of Conduct.

=== Bus factor problem, revisited ===
* Any infrastructure changes to make in 2022? Web hosting?
** We are looking for options to become less independent on private sponsored web servers, but not need to rush.
* FossHost accepting applications again [https://fosshost.org/]
** <strike>Arun will reach out for them.</strike> Done!
** As of 2022-April-01, Fosshost has offered amd64 and arm64 servers for Octave's use as web servers and buildbots: https://octave.discourse.group/t/project-infrastructure-discussion/1938/12. The discussion is currently ongoing.

=== Octave 8 ===

* Would it be worthwhile to look into [https://gitlab.com/labinformatica/guieditor Sergio Burgos' gui editor]?
** The authors of the software did not get in contact with the Octave developers.
** The creator of this item did not attend the meeting, thus unclear what should be achieved.

=== GSoC 2022 ===

* <strike>[https://octave.discourse.group/t/gsoc-2022-symbolic-package-project/2396/3 Maintainers of symbolic package unresponsive].  If no communication gets established by the weekend, this project will be dropped to avoid applicants putting energy in this.</strike>

=== Package problems ===

* Package problems have to be settled with the package maintainers.  Forks are possible anytime: GPL.

==== Communications ====

*<strike>bug {{bug|46521}} is still lingering with nir_krakauer and lostbard there has been significant progress.</strike>
**<strike>Should some energy be directed to closing this?</strike> Not related to Octave itself.  See [https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?46521#comment59 note in bug report].

==== Signal ====
*<strike>There has been tremendous work submitted by Charles Praplan, JWE, and others.</strike>
**<strike>However it appears none of this has been incorporated.</strike>
**<strike>After release of version 1.4.1; is this no longer being maintained?</strike>  Not related to Octave itself.  Please reach out for the [https://octave.sourceforge.io/signal/ package maintainer] about future plans.  If one is interested she might offer to become new package maintainer.

== See also ==

* Next meeting: [[Online Developer Meeting (2022-05-24)]]
* Last meeting: [[Online Developer Meeting (2022-03-22)]]

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