Online Developer Meeting (2021-07-27)

• Date: Tuesday, July 27, 2021 @ 18:00 UTC
• Location: https://meet.jit.si/octave-dev-2021-07-27

Todays topics

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

Octave 6.3 released

• No "official" announcement happened. Maybe reuse abandoned mailing-lists to announce important events, such as releases.
• How do distribution maintainers get to know about Octave releases?
  • Contact Debian maintainers of the Octave package to maybe improve our communication (Kai).

Previous topics

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Octave 6.3.0

• 6.3 Release Checklist
• jwe prepared a second release candidate.
• 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). See: Identifiers for breakpoints

gsvd

• 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.
• See: IRC channel for Octave (on Discourse).

See also

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• Last meeting: Online Developer Meeting (2021-06-22)