Online Developer Meeting (2024-05-28)

Today's topics

We've used just 483GB of our 4000GB Digital Ocean outbound data transfer limit so far in May. We could consider (limited?) distribution of default branch builds for testing purposes.
Timing for next bugfix release: Expected by now, but delayed again because of bugs(?) - do we need another release candidate?
- Some discussion about release-candidates: we generally do RC only for 9.1 but not for 9.2, 9.3 etc.
  - This is now documented in https://wiki.octave.org/9.1_Release_Checklist
  - TODO: Does that checklist have a template? We should update that template...
Using Octave 10 (or 11?) to introduce the string class and other changes that will break backward compatibility without the usual two-release deprecation period.
GSoC
Octave in MSYS2 (binary distributor for Windows MinGW)
OctConf
Use of config.h / octave-config.h in Octave header files. What symbols belong in octave-config.h?

Timing for next bugfix release
- potential blocker(?): bug #65605: Octave call to function figure(); results in segfault with Qt6 6.7.0
- jwe creates release candidate (see: Release candidate for Octave 9.2.0 available
GSoC projects
- 8 applications
- Selection the day after the meeting
OctConf 2024
Roadmap and priorities for Octave 10
Discuss a potential timeline for native string class support
- Blocker: Inability to save classdef objects to files. Potentially realizable in incremental steps:
  - Implement a low-level HDF5 interface that is usable from .m code.
  - Implement saving double arrays in Matlab-compatible -v7.3 format in .m files.
  - Implement saving in that format for other types (including classdef).
Should we make and distribute nightly builds for Windows for the default branch?
- Traffic from Digital Ocean limited to 4 TB. (Higher monthly rate if exceeded?)
- Probably no additional nightly build configurations for now.
Octave in MSYS2 (binary distributor for Windows MinGW)