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* Should there be a grace period for package maintainers to adapt to Octave 6 before the 6.1 release?
* Should there be a grace period for package maintainers to adapt to Octave 6 before the 6.1 release?
** Release is scheduled for November
** Release is scheduled for November.
** Active package maintainers already up-to-date
** Active package maintainers already up-to-date.
** Only contact package maintainers who's packages currently fail:
** Only contact package maintainers who's packages currently fail:
*** [[odepkg]] runs in an infinite loop while testing; BitBucket repo no longer available; Kai contacts cdf via mailing-list
*** [[odepkg]] runs in an infinite loop while testing {{bug|59338}}; BitBucket repo no longer available; Kai contacts cdf via mailing-list.
*** [https://octave.sourceforge.io/sparsersb/ SparseRSB] contacted in {{bug|58957}}
*** [https://octave.sourceforge.io/sparsersb/ SparseRSB] contacted in {{bug|58957}}.
* Many broken packages cannot identified in the mxe-builds
* 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.'''
** 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.'''


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=== Topic suggestions ===
=== Topic suggestions ===


* The future of Octave Packages
==== Octave 7 ====
** [[Octave Forge]]
 
** https://gnu-octave.github.io/pkg-index/
* 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 [https://octave.discourse.group/t/online-developer-meeting-2020-11-10-the-future-of-octave-packages/349 Discourse].


== See also ==
== See also ==


* Next meeting: TBA
* Next meeting: [[Online Developer Meeting (2020-11-10)]]
* Last meeting: [[Online Developer Meeting (2020-07-28)]]
* Last meeting: [[Online Developer Meeting (2020-07-28)]]


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Latest revision as of 06:34, 10 November 2020

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)

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 also

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