Editing Online Developer Meeting (2023-04-25)

* Date: Tuesday, Apr 25, 2023 @ 18:00 UTC  '''[https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2023&month=4&day=25&hour=18&min=0&sec=0&p1=263&p2=37&p3=248&p4=202&p5=26 Convert timezones here!]'''
* Location: https://meet.jit.si/octave-dev

== Today's topics ==

* Octave 8.2.0 released
* Coding Community Events
** OctConf 2023?
** Online coding sprints?
* GSoC discussion
* Possible version 9 projects:
** Qt6 (does that force us to require a C++17 compiler?)
** new terminal widget
** <tt>arguments</tt> blocks
** improved breakpoint handling
** experimental stack-based virtual machine
** <tt>MException</tt> object
** <tt>string</tt> object (separate from having double-quoted characters create <tt>string</tt> objects)
** HDF5-based <tt>save</tt> and <tt>load</tt> compatible with Matlab's file format
** refactor <tt>octave_function</tt> and classes derived from it
** broadcasting for <tt>sparse</tt>
** make graphics and GUI event processing in the interpreter independent from readline
* Status of Octave Forge
** should the Octave bug tracker continue to be used for reporting bugs in external packages?
** if not, how can we make it easy to find the location to report bugs for a package/package function?  How do other systems like Python, R, etc., handle this problem?
* Some old bug reports have been closed recently - <b>thanks!</b><br>Current stats by year:
{| class="wikitable" style="margin:auto"
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|  || 2010 || 2011 || 2012 || 2013 || 2014 || 2015 || 2016 || 2017 || 2018 || 2019 || 2020 || 2021 || 2022 || 2023 || total
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| Octave || 1 || 16 || 16 || 41 || 79 || 101 || 160 || 129 || 180 || 201 || 132 || 126 || 117 || 54 || 1353
|-
| Octave Forge ||  ||  ||  || 3 || 9 || 19 || 27 || 38 || 28 || 39 || 54 || 44 || 49 || 16 || 326
|}

== Previous topics ==

* @jwe's server is now set up as a buildbot worker for buildbot.octave.space (Windows nightlies)
** Worker needs to be started manually on reboot. Other than that it is working.
** Upload is slow. Maybe, skip (building and) uploading the .zip archive. Installer and .7z archive are probably enough.

* Octave 8.1 released
** Does it make sense to make release candidates?
** Release Octave 8.2.0 with a couple of urgent fixes (see below) probably soon.

* Fix for issue with element-wise <code>|</code> and <code>&</code> in <code>if</code> conditions is already pushed to the stable branch.

* Issues when writing to streams while converting output
** @arungiridhar already pushed a fix for streams in binary mode to the stable branch.
** Change default to "no conversion" (i.e., UTF-8) when opening streams with <code>fopen</code> without explicitly specifying an encoding. Matlab also defaults to UTF-8 in newer versions. And this might mitigate the encoding issue (at least with default settings).

* Symbol visibility for Octave libraries causing issues for some Octave packages?
** Change default to disable selective symbol visibility again.

* Internal representation of character arrays in Octave
** @jwe proposed to open a thread on Discourse if we'd like to discuss this.

* GSoC 2023
** Application period will start soon.

* NumFOCUS
** Go ahead with application (without waiting for feedback from FSF any longer).

== See also ==

* Next meeting: [[Online Developer Meeting (2023-05-23)]]
* Last meeting: [[Online Developer Meeting (2023-03-28)]]

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