Online Developer Meeting (2022-11-22)

• Date: Tuesday, Nov 22, 2022 @ 18:00 UTC
• Location: https://meet.jit.si/octave-dev

Today's topics

• Outcomes from NumFOCUS meeting (2022-11-07).
  • Converge on who's willing / unwilling to be a signatory.

• Octave infrastructure - FOSSHost abandonment
  • (That host never came back up at all. Arun has been checking its status daily.)

• Progress toward Octave 8.1 release
  • bugs that must be resolved first ("blockers"):
  • bugs requiring some effort that would be nice to resolve first:
  • "easy" close bugs that should be able to be resolved first:

• Pick some "big feature(s)" to work on for Octave 9:
  • VM?
  • String class?
  • Dictionary / hashmap?
  • Context-sensitive tab completion? (GSoC maybe)
  • (your ideas here)

Previous topics

This month's meeting notes https://octave.discourse.group/t/octave-developer-meeting-october-2022/3512.

• 7.3 release activities
• 8.1 release activities
• Ongoing technical work: string type
  • Any warnings to users about upcoming changes?
• Ongoing technical work: dictionary / associative array
  • Waiting on strings

See also

• Next meeting: Online Developer Meeting (2022-12-27)
• Last meeting: Online Developer Meeting (2022-10-25)