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== Today's topics == | == Today's topics == | ||
GSoC discussion | * Octave 8.2.0 released | ||
** Release process went pretty smoothly. | |||
** If no specific extraordinary motivation, we won't need release candidates for future bug-fix releases. | |||
** @jwe will try to provide existing helper scripts and instructions for release process. | |||
* Coding Community Events | |||
** OctConf 2023? | |||
*** @jwe proposed to do that in the form of a developer summit for a couple of days. | |||
*** @Rik offered to open a poll for dates/venue/... on the discourse forum. | |||
*** Probably, at least 6 months lead time. | |||
** Online coding sprints? | |||
*** Maybe in the form of a loose online meeting for the duration of a weekend? | |||
*** @Rik offered to open a poll for dates/tools/... on the discourse forum. | |||
* GSoC discussion | |||
** Process for evaluation of student applications has started. | |||
** Some promising candidates. | |||
* Possible version 9 projects: | |||
** Qt6 (does that force us to require a C++17 compiler?) | |||
*** Only enablement patches have landed so far. Further integration and bug fixes are still needed. | |||
** 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? | |||
*** Propose package maintainers to move to own trackers. | |||
** 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" | |||
|- | |||
| || 2010 || 2011 || 2012 || 2013 || 2014 || 2015 || 2016 || 2017 || 2018 || 2019 || 2020 || 2021 || 2022 || 2023 || total | |||
|- | |||
| 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 == | == See also == | ||