Online Developer Meeting (2021-06-22)

• Date: Tuesday, June 22, 2021 @ 18:00 UTC
• Location: https://meet.jit.si/octave-dev-2021-06-22

Todays topics

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

Octave 6.3.0

• 6.3 Release Checklist
  • If nothing big shows up, go ahead with the release in about 10 days (early July).

• OctConf?
  • Instead of an in-person conference, meet up virtually.
  • Ideas for code-sprint?
    • Improve test coverage
    • That could include automated tests for GUI features ("expect", Qt test classes, set OCTAVE_SHOW_GUI_MESSAGES to 1 to display signals with missing connections, ...). Does anyone have experience with this?

• GUI
  • Make widgets more modular
    • remove connections to parents (or parents of parents,...)
    • Only pass settings objects (instead of base qwidget) to widgets?
  • Add widgets for:
    • displaying call stack. Select function in stack for appropriate dbup or dbdown command.
    • displaying result to an expression. Similar to debugger (watcher, ...)
  • User expectations for evaluation code from the editor ("Evaluate selection") or the variable editor ("plot") while there is still pending input on the command line?

• Breakpoints
  • Add feature to temporarily disable breakpoints
  • Check syntax for breakpoints in subfunctions, local functions, private functions, methods, ... (dbstatus)

• gsd
  • Current version is not Matlab-compatible nor correct in some circumstances.
  • Rik is currently implementing a replacement.

• IRC channel on Freenode is down
  • Replacement on libera?
  • jwe will probably post something on discourse.

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Discourse

• General question about the acceptance.
  • We like it.
• Continue to no longer actively advertise the mailing-lists.

GitHub Actions

• Markus gave a small presentation of this project.
  • https://github.com/gnu-octave/octave/actions (need to be member of the https://github.com/gnu-octave organization, just ask on Discourse https://octave.discourse.group/t/github-gitlab-organization-for-gnu-octave/178).
  • Not 100% perfect yet, but already in a good shape.
  • CodeQL static code analysis
  • Help with macOS wanted

QScintilla signal/slot problem

• Bug #60469
• On MS Windows only for QScintilla the "safer" signal/slot changes seem to not work.
  • Revert it until the problem is identified.

See also

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• Last meeting: Online Developer Meeting (2021-05-25)