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 * Still hard to fix blocking bugs
-** Build (RC) anyway!
+** Bug with graphic handles while closing Octave (bug {{bug|58814}}) was reported.  This happens when exit is called from a script or when directly calling exit after running the script in the CLI.  How to properly handle graphics callbacks during exit?
-** crashes during doc graphics creation seem to be fixed (bug {{bug|56952}})
+** 32-bit MS Windows builds
-** still elusive crashes while running the test suite on the build bots (bug {{bug|57591}}) -> Maybe the broader user base of an RC can shed some light on "real-life frequency" of these crashes.
+*** ode15 with Sundials make problems (bug {{bug|58795}}). Maybe already solved.
-** possible background: interaction between graphics system and interpreter is different from interaction of rest of GUI with the interpreter. Possibly resolvable by a copy-on-write approach for graphics objects (postponed to Octave 7)
+*** Precision problems failing the test suite (bug {{bug|58807}}).  Solvable by requiring SSE2 instructions.  Go ahead with it.
+*** Unreported GUI problems.  Done with (bug {{bug|58844}}).
-* Try to tackle bugs with debuggers
+* Are there breaking changes in Octave 6 to inform package maintainers?  No, only deprecated functions are now removed.
-** valgrind slow
-** <code>-fsanitize=thread</code> in memory and faster
-* Before Octave 6.1.0 release, discharge MS Windows 10 Malware Detection Systems (e.g. upload to https://www.virustotal.com/)
+* Add script to start GDB session from Octave for debugging, see [[Debugging Octave]].
+=== Octave community ===
+* Changes about the mailing-list advertisements
+** Are there sports left where the help mailing-list is advertised, e.g. GUI?  Maybe not.
+* Get rid of nabble?  (Discussion was short here)
+=== Octave 7 ideas ===
+* Range datatype
+** Should Octave support numeric operations on them?
+** There was a thread on the maintainers mailing-list by jwe.  Open discourse thread about it.
+* Loading and saving
+** Octave load/save supports a bunch of data types (mat v4, text, ascii, ...)
+*** Deprecate some of them?  Open Discourse discussion about it.
+*** Large array support for Octave's own storage types?
+*** Storage of nested functions in mat v4 in Matlab possible?
+** Focus on the HDF5 format in the future.  Matlab prioritizes it too, external tools for viewing the files available.
+** Support classdef load/save.
+=== Code sprints ===
+* There was a suggestion to have online code sprints, dedicated to one particular topic, as addition to the online developer meetings.
 == Ideas for next meeting ==
 === Topic suggestions ===
+* The state of [https://siko1056.github.io/blog/2020/10/16/octave-buildbot-app.html octave-buildbot].
 == See also ==
-* Next meeting: TBA
+* Next meeting: [[Online Developer Meeting (2020-10-27)]]
 * Last meeting: [[Online Developer Meeting (2020-07-07)]]
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