Online Developer Meeting (2023-12-19)

• Date: Tuesday, Dec 19, 2023 @ 18:00 UTC Convert timezones here!
• Location: https://meet.jit.si/octave-dev

Today's topics

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Previous topics

• Octave 9 release activities
  • 9.1 Release Checklist
  • Continuing progress with language checks and translations
• Consider reverting the removal of the configure flag that allows disabling the bytecode VM?
  • Background discussion: https://octave.discourse.group/t/the-role-of-the-disable-vm-evaluator-flag/4934
  • JWE will try to add ifdefs for this
  • It was discussed to make this activity as a bug report to help tracking
• Clarify changes that should target the stable or the default branch.
  • No universal guidelines, generally ask whether it absolutely needs to be in stable without introducing new problems
  • Importance of impact, if any: does it make a difference whether it addresses a crash vs addresses something minor?
  • Importance of frequency, if any: does it make a difference whether the bug is commonly encountered or rare?
  • Size of code change, if any.
  • When to graft changes from default to stable?
• Clarify what should be part of reviewing a change before pushing it to the repository. Any difference for changes to the stable or the default branch?
  • No all-use guidelines, but avoid compiler specific code, platform specific code, and in general ask why something is written this way
• Decide on criteria for which bugs should be fixed before 9.1.0 release
  • Tag all bugs which meet criteria with Planned Release of 9.1.0
• Default to Qt6 for Octave 9? Also for MXE Octave? That raises minimum requirements for compiler (C++17) and target platform (for Windows: minimum Windows 10 64-bit, see post on discourse).
• Enable polymorphic allocators by default (C++17 feature)? Might prevent Octave packages from building if they set a lower C++ standard. (Known example: the ltfat package does this currently, adding -std=gnu++11 to its flags, preventing it from being built as-is with polymorphic allocators.)

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