Online Developer Meeting (2021-03-23)

• Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2021 @ 18:00 UTC
• Location: https://meet.jit.si/octave-dev-2021-03-23

Todays topics

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

Octave 7

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

Some idea collections so far:

• "jwe priorities" in Category:Development#Goals_for_upcoming_releases, see also JWE Project Ideas
  • Bug fixes, especially those related to compatibility issues.
  • Work through the open bug reports for which patches have been submitted. Review/apply/reject and close as many of these reports as possible.
  • Refactor/rewrite code for handling load path.
  • Refactor/rewrite exist and which functions.
  • Create a low-level interface to HDF5 functions.
  • Support Matlab's HDF5-based MAT file format using the proposed low-level interface to HDF5 functions.
    • Allow all types of function handles to be saved and loaded.
    • Allow classdef objects to be saved and loaded.
  • Replace the terminal widget in the GUI, see also https://octave.discourse.group/t/new-command-window-widget/501
  • Accept Matlab's new argument validation syntax in parser.

• Discourse https://octave.discourse.group/t/goals-for-the-next-release/358

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See also

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