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== Today's topics ==
== Today's topics ==


* Octave 8.1 released
** Does it make sense to make release candidates?


* Issues when writing to streams while converting output
* Symbol visibility for Octave libraries causing issues for some Octave packages?
* Internal representation of character arrays in Octave
* GSoC 2023?


== Previous topics ==
== Previous topics ==

Revision as of 15:36, 28 March 2023

Today's topics

  • Octave 8.1 released
    • Does it make sense to make release candidates?
  • Issues when writing to streams while converting output
  • Symbol visibility for Octave libraries causing issues for some Octave packages?
  • Internal representation of character arrays in Octave
  • GSoC 2023?

Previous topics

  • Future of buildbot.octave.space: https://octave.discourse.group/t/future-of-buildbot-octave-space/3993
    • Current worker will go down some time in March.
    • @jwe or @pr0m1th3as will check together with Kai if they could provide hardware that could be used as a replacement worker.
    • Minimum requirement for worker: ~ 1 GiB storage per "flavor". "Fast enough" to build all "flavors" in 24 hours.
    • Plan is to check @jwe's machine first. If upload speed is an issue, continue to check with @pr0m1th3as' machine.
  • Future of packages being maintained at sourceforge.net: https://octave.discourse.group/t/are-there-still-any-maintainers-for-octave-forge/4002
    • Package index has already switched to GitHub.
    • Documentation is still hosted on SourceForge.
    • @pr0m1th3as proposed to suggest maintainer of packages that are hosted on SourceForge to move to GitHub.
    • @cbm and @jwe mentioned that we should try to keep the risk of "vendor-lock-in" at a commercial service in mind.
  • Octave accepted to GSOC 2023
    • Students can apply 20th of March to 4th of April 2023.
    • Unclear who is mentoring.
    • It was agreed to remove (HTML comment) all projects from the GSoC Wiki page and ask potential mentors to only (re-)add those projects that they are able to see through this year.
  • Discourse display and connection issues
    • Multiple users have issues connecting to the side or get strangely formatted layout.
    • Arun will contact Discourse support desk.
  • Octave 8.1
    • Decision to release Octave 8.1 shortly.

See also