Online Developer Meeting (2020-10-27)

• Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 @ 18:00 UTC
• Location: https://meet.jit.si/octave-dev-2020-10-27

Todays topics

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

Octave 6 release status

Octave 6 release in November (tentative)

• What is left to be done?
  • Complete items in 6.1 Release Checklist
  • There are 13 bugs marked for 6.0.9x release candidates (see bug overview page)
    • For the Octave 6 release this number has not necessarily to be 0
    • Developers should go through this list and focus on the relevant ones:
      • #59206 "crash during matrix multiplication (Win only)"
        • Very important probably an OpenBLAS issue.
      • #59331 "Processor load stays up after `__run_test_suite__`"
        • Still investigating.
      • #57591 "Segmentation faults when running the test suite (mostly with clang)"?
        • jwe reported he has a trace log to get to the bottom of it.

Broken packages in MXE Octave

• Should there be a grace period for package maintainers to adapt to Octave 6 before the 6.1 release?
  • Release is scheduled for November.
  • Active package maintainers already up-to-date.
  • Only contact package maintainers who's packages currently fail:
    • odepkg runs in an infinite loop while testing #59338; BitBucket repo no longer available; Kai contacts cdf via mailing-list.
    • SparseRSB contacted in #58957.
• Many broken packages cannot identified in MXE Octave builds.
  • jwe? reported that some packages intentionally deactivate warnings about deprecated functions until it is "too late" and the package no longer builds. Please do not do this.

Octave Buildbot (Kai)

• https://octave.space
• Build artifacts are hosted on a private server in Germany (IONOS VPS M, 80 GB SSD, No traffic limit)
  • Possibility to advertise this page as "Nightly builds" (May I do this? 🙂)
• System (1 master, 4 worker) builds once per day the Octave stable branch (if changes happened)
  • Octave tarballs (gz, lz, xz)
  • Documentation (manual, Doxygen) can be viewed on the site
  • All MXE flavors (32, 64, 64-64)
• Some article about octave-buildbot.
• Source & development: https://github.com/gnu-octave/octave-buildbot

Ideas for next meeting

Topic suggestions

Octave 7

• Not only providing major releases that "fix Matlab incompatibilities".
• Great new features for a great new release.
• Code sprints.

The future of Octave Packages (Kai)

• See Discourse.

See also

• Next meeting: Online Developer Meeting (2020-11-10)
• Last meeting: Online Developer Meeting (2020-07-28)