Online Developer Meeting (2023-01-24): Difference between revisions

Revision as of 08:33, 25 January 2023

Release candidate?
- First RC released
- Discussion about automating release process, which is currently manual and error-prone
- Discussion about whether we can do continuous delivery: head of stable branch would be the released version. No decision yet.
- jwe will announce the availability of the first release candidate with a new thread on the Discourse forum.

Eliminate doc/liboctave?
- See thread on Discourse forum
- Only 3400 lines, maybe 2700 lines without license text
- JWE aims for the Doxygen to be stable and helpful, like the Qt docs
- nrjank will look through files to list any with information worth retaining. That information should be moved to inline doxygen comments if it is useful.

GSOC 2023 timeline
- Org applications: Jan 23-Feb 7, notified Feb 21 (reapply supposed to be 'easy')
- Contributor proposals: Mar 20-Apr 4, Rankings due 4/27, Selections announced May 4
- nrjank will go ahead with preapplication activities: solicit mentor interest from Octave devs, reach out to Nir re application mechanics
- nrjank will also look into Google Season of Documentation (GSoD)

NumFOCUS activities:
- Only pending item: project address
- Collect remaining signatures if any

How to deal with the increased frequency of crashes involving the qt graphics toolkit?

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 ** '''Discussion about automating release process, which is currently manual and error-prone'''
 ** '''Discussion about whether we can do continuous delivery: head of stable branch would be the released version. No decision yet.'''
+** jwe will announce the availability of the first release candidate with a new thread on the Discourse forum.
 * Eliminate doc/liboctave?
+** See [https://octave.discourse.group/t/eliminate-doc-liboctave/3849 thread on Discourse forum]
 ** '''Only 3400 lines, maybe 2700 lines without license text'''
 ** '''JWE aims for the Doxygen to be stable and helpful, like the Qt docs'''
-** '''nrjank will look through files to list any with information worth retaining'''
+** '''nrjank will look through files to list any with information worth retaining.''' That information should be moved to inline doxygen comments if it is useful.
 * Coding style changes
-** '''Discussion on where to add content from wiki. Converged to /etc/<something>'''
+** '''Discussion on where to add content from wiki. Converged to /etc/<something>.''' Maybe split the current HACKING.md file multiple files for different categories (e.g., style, release process, ...).
-** '''C++: specify void or not. Converged to removing void.'''
+** '''C++: specify void or not. Converged to removing void in code that is not (extern) C.'''
 ** '''C++: brace initialization lists'''
 ** '''C++: default member initialization'''