Online Developer Meeting (2022-07-26): Difference between revisions

Revision as of 08:51, 22 July 2022

GSoC progress
VM progress?
Octave packages progress update
Managing diversity of libraries (libm, libc etc)
- See background
Release process for Octave 7.2:
- About 10 (actual) changes since the last release candidate (about 6 weeks ago). Should we make a second release candidate?
- Not much feedback for the first release candidate. Should we skip making release candidates entirely and directly make releases? Should we announce them more prominently (e.g., on the web page)?
Octave 7.3 and 8 timeline?

Octave 7.2
- jwe indicated a release is imminent
VM updates
- Presentations by mnabipoor and Petter
- Both efforts will move forward
- Need to define VM language
Fosshost and hosting updates
- Kai presented details of migration and documentation of the migration process
MinusForge to finally move to Octave Packages with pkg install -forge
- Timeline to deprecate https://octave.sourceforge.org.
- Kai presented this new mechanism to obtain "pkg install -forge" functionality for GitHub packages in addition to SourceForge, en route to leaving SourceForge
GSOC status/progress check-in
Follow up on implementing classdef classes in C++
- jwe presented updates on the classdef functionality.

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 * Managing diversity of libraries (libm, libc etc)
 ** See [https://octave.discourse.group/t/point-of-openlibm-project-or-if-even-julia-wants-to-shift-away-from-openlibm-do-we-want-to-use-it/2980/  background]
+* Release process for Octave 7.2:
+** About 10 (actual) changes since the last release candidate (about 6 weeks ago). Should we make a second release candidate?
+** Not much feedback for the first release candidate. Should we skip making release candidates entirely and directly make releases? Should we announce them more prominently (e.g., on the web page)?
 * Octave 7.3 and 8 timeline?