Online Developer Meeting (2023-04-25)

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Today's topics

  • GSoC discussion
  • Octave 8.2.0 released
  • GUI development (Qt6, terminal widget, ...)

Previous topics

  • @jwe's server is now set up as a buildbot worker for buildbot.octave.space (Windows nightlies)
    • Worker needs to be started manually on reboot. Other than that it is working.
    • Upload is slow. Maybe, skip (building and) uploading the .zip archive. Installer and .7z archive are probably enough.
  • Octave 8.1 released
    • Does it make sense to make release candidates?
    • Release Octave 8.2.0 with a couple of urgent fixes (see below) probably soon.
  • Fix for issue with element-wise | and & in if conditions is already pushed to the stable branch.
  • Issues when writing to streams while converting output
    • @arungiridhar already pushed a fix for streams in binary mode to the stable branch.
    • Change default to "no conversion" (i.e., UTF-8) when opening streams with fopen without explicitly specifying an encoding. Matlab also defaults to UTF-8 in newer versions. And this might mitigate the encoding issue (at least with default settings).
  • Symbol visibility for Octave libraries causing issues for some Octave packages?
    • Change default to disable selective symbol visibility again.
  • Internal representation of character arrays in Octave
    • @jwe proposed to open a thread on Discourse if we'd like to discuss this.
  • GSoC 2023
    • Application period will start soon.
  • NumFOCUS
    • Go ahead with application (without waiting for feedback from FSF any longer).

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