Online Developer Meeting (2022-05-24)

• Date: Tuesday, May 24, 2022 @ 18:00 UTC
• Location: https://meet.jit.si/octave-dev

Today's topics

• The potential use of Jitter and other virtual machines to speed up Octave execution, by Mohammad-Reza Nabipoor.
  • Discourse thread

Previous topics

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

• Performance over time (Arun, Rik)
  • Discourse thread for background
  • Analysis and profiling of existing code base -- share and solicit experiences.
  • Performance benchmark to track speed over time as part of CI? (Not as part of CI for now, can be done separately, Arun will share progress updates on Discourse)

• GSoC: call for mentors (Nir/Kai)
  • Interesting mentors should write to Nir or Kai before: 2022-05-06, ideally before.
  • Final deadline (to the sponsor) is May 12.

• Octave 7.1.0 post-release remarks:
  • Overall time from merge of default to stable (2021-11-24) until release of version 7.1.0 (2022-04-06): approx. 4 months
    • Why does it take us so long for the last couple of releases?
    • Should we start the release process earlier?
  • A couple of bugs have been solved on the stable branch since the release. Last time we released 6.2.0 pretty early after 6.1.0. Should we do the same again?
  • Regressions that should probably be solved before a potential 7.2.0:
    • bug #62308: use of octave::feval causes error: function '...' not found
    • patch #10200: wrong axes using stairs in subplot --- This affects a lot more plotting functions besides stairs. They always plot into gca and ignore the input axes handle.
    • others?

• Wikipedia updates - minor updates needed to bring up to date.
  • see https://octave.discourse.group/t/octave-wikipedia-pages/2600/1

See also

• Next meeting: Online Developer Meeting (2022-06-28)
• Last meeting: Online Developer Meeting (2022-04-26)