Online Developer Meeting (2022-07-26)

Today's topics

GSoC progress
- Progress was presented by available mentors. Generally good. Some discussion on openlibm, accepted that negative results are also valuable.
VM progress?
- Petter presented updates on his VM.
- jwe prefers incorporating that into the default branch of Octave as soon as practical, and let it remain off by default unless the user wants to enable it with a configure switch or a runtime switch
- This would be formed into an API for a generic VM approach to Octave that can be used for other VMs such as the Jitter one, etc
Octave packages progress update
Managing diversity of libraries (libm, libc etc)
- See background
Release process for Octave 7.2:
- About 10 (actual) changes since the last release candidate (about 6 weeks ago). Should we make a second release candidate?
- Not much feedback for the first release candidate. Should we skip making release candidates entirely and directly make releases? Should we announce them more prominently (e.g., on the web page)?
Octave 7.3 and 8 timeline?

Octave 7.2
- jwe indicated a release is imminent
VM updates
- Presentations by mnabipoor and Petter
- Both efforts will move forward
- Need to define VM language
Fosshost and hosting updates
- Kai presented details of migration and documentation of the migration process
MinusForge to finally move to Octave Packages with pkg install -forge
- Timeline to deprecate https://octave.sourceforge.org.
- Kai presented this new mechanism to obtain "pkg install -forge" functionality for GitHub packages in addition to SourceForge, en route to leaving SourceForge
GSOC status/progress check-in
Follow up on implementing classdef classes in C++
- jwe presented updates on the classdef functionality.