Online Developer Meeting (2020-07-28)

• Date: Tuesday, July 28, 2020 @ 18:00 UTC
• Location: Jitsi (link TBA)

Todays topics

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

Octave 6 release status

• We should create a first release candidate (RC) Octave 6.0.90 soon. Base for discussing and working on further bug findings.
  • Update gnulib before RC
  • Tag some cset on stable.
  • Build MS Windows binaries.
  • Upload to https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/octave/ .

• Still hard to fix blocking bugs
  • Build (RC) anyway!
  • crashes during doc graphics creation seem to be fixed (bug #56952)
  • still elusive crashes while running the test suite on the build bots (bug #57591) -> Maybe the broader user base of an RC can shed some light on "real-life frequency" of these crashes.
  • possible background: interaction between graphics system and interpreter is different from interaction of rest of GUI with the interpreter. Possibly resolvable by a copy-on-write approach for graphics objects (postponed to Octave 7)

• Other important bugs
  • calling script from nested functions (bug #58691 fixed)
  • empty list creation if one element is not assigned (bug #58686 not a blocker)

• Try to tackle bugs with debuggers
  • valgrind slow
  • -fsanitize=thread in memory and faster

• Before Octave 6.1.0 release, discharge MS Windows 10 Malware Detection Systems (e.g. upload to https://www.virustotal.com/)

See also

• Next meeting: TBA
• Last meeting: Online Developer Meeting (2020-07-07)