Online Developer Meeting (2020-06-09)

• Date: Tuesday, June 9, 2020 @ 17:00 UTC
• Location: https://meet.jit.si/octave-dev-2020-06-09

Todays topics

Octave 6 blockers

• Bug #57439 function handles to private functions
  • Does it cause the MS Windows slowdown? (probably yes)
  • Timeline for fix? No.
  • Ideas for a fix on jwe's private dev repo (link?)

• Bug #57591 crash during graphics generation / run of test suite
  • Use Buildbot to track?
  • Nobody knows the cause of these random, non-reproducible crashes.

Referencing packages

• Image package now uploaded to Zenodo, linked with OrcID
• How to probably credit authors / contributors.

Development image

• Would there be value to a development VM or other type of image to provide a standard environment?
  • currently a Docker exists with the latest build for usage/testing
  • if a VM, what is the minimal sized setup to make it useful/effective

• Could instructions on the Wiki provide this purpose?
  • See Building on Microsoft Windows.
  • WSL and instructions might provide a development path for MS Windows users.
  • If instructions are enough, would instructions for a user to get and setup a VM or WSL enough to remove need to host a VM?

Ideas for next meeting

Topic suggestions

• Focus specifically on Octave 6 release status?
• Discourse for GNU Octave

Other

• Test audio 5 minutes before meeting.

See also

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