Online Developer Meeting (2024-07-23)

• Date: Tuesday, July 30, 2024 @ 18:00 UTC Convert timezones here!
• Location: https://meet.jit.si/octave-dev

Today's topics

• Progress update on GSoC projects
• OctConf 2024
• Progress update on liboctmex separate library
• Future of "bytecode-interpreter" branch?

Previous topics

• Progress update on GSoC projects
  • Colin and Andreas reported about the projects that they are mentoring: slow start on the project that Colin mentors; ahead of schedule for both projects that Andreas mentors.
• OctConf 2024: no updates
• Octave 9.2 release: successfully released last month
• Traffic for Digital Ocean servers:
  • May 2024: 545 out of 4000 GB
  • June 2024 (until 25th): 340 out of 4000 GB
• Moderation of mailing lists for bug tracker, patch tracker, and task tracker?
  • Ask users to answer on the Savannah interface if they answer by email. Or copy their answer to the reports on Savannah manually.
  • Currently jwe is the only moderator for the mailing lists for the notifications from savannah. Markus is willing to help with moderation.
  • We prefer to not have the notifications moderated by the GNU volunteer group.
  • For the help and maintainers mailing list, jwe, Jordi, and the GNU volunteer group are moderators currently.
• Separate library for C mex interface?
  • No objections to create new library liboctmex (with potentially less frequent SOVERSION bumps to increase compatibility of .mex files between Octave version s).

See also

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