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 * Meet and greet 5 minutes before meeting (audio testing).
-=== Community bounding / GSoC (Kai) ===
+=== Switch this meeting to more casual format ===
-* Abdallah finished his project https://abdallah-elshamy.github.io/GSoC-2021/ (no talk planned, just for your information).
+* In the future notes of the talks will be added to this wiki in a more sparse fashion.
-* Our [[GSoC]] projects are not attractive, number of student application is decreasing.
-* Other interesting ways to attract more developers?
-=== Bug triaging ===
+=== liboctave ===
-* Nice contribution by an anonymous user: [[Short projects#Easy Closes]]
+* Make more use of STL
-** If no other topics are more urgent, let's go through some items and let's try to close at least 10 of them 😇
+* Not all liboctave components can be replaced by STL containers, as the ND-indexing is not supported.
+* <code>string_vector</code> class probably replaceable by STL containers.
+=== Tips for Octave C++ code writers ===
+Such as packages, toolboxes, etc.
+* Prefer <code>OCTAVE_LOCAL_BUFFER</code> over heavy-weight <code>Array</code> object to store results of (Fortran-) library calls.
+* Prefer <code>octave_value</code> type variables over internal data structures.
+** Examples: Function handle class and Range class.
+=== For package maintainers ===
+* Do not use <code>error_state</code> anymore! https://octave.discourse.group/t/eliminating-use-of-error-state-in-octave-code/1515
+* Do not suppress compiler warnings about deprecated features today, those are the bug reports of tomorrow, when it is too late.
+=== octave namespace ===
+* jwe made many breaking changes on the default branch moving symbols in the octave namespace, to keep the namespaces tidy.
+=== Deprecations ===
+* The operators <code>.+</code>, <code>.-</code>, and <code>**</code> https://octave.discourse.group/t/deprecating-fortran-style-exponent-operator/1516 will be deprecated.
+=== Code sprints ===
+* Wish for more code sprints, e.g.,
+** "m_" convention https://octave.discourse.group/t/using-m-prefix-for-member-variables-in-c-classes/1517/17
+** Close easy closable bugs [[Short_projects#Easy_Closes]]
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