Octave

Online Developer Meeting (2020-10-27)

Todays topicsEdit

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

Octave 6 release statusEdit

Octave 6 release in November (tentative)
  • What is left to be done?
    • Complete items in 6.1 Release Checklist
    • There are 13 bugs marked for 6.0.9x release candidates (see bug overview page)
      • For the Octave 6 release this number has not necessarily to be 0
      • Developers should go through this list and focus on the relevant ones:
        • #59206 "crash during matrix multiplication (Win only)"
          • Very important probably an OpenBLAS issue.
        • #59331 "Processor load stays up after `__run_test_suite__`"
          • Still investigating.
        • #57591 "Segmentation faults when running the test suite (mostly with clang)"?
          • jwe reported he has a trace log to get to the bottom of it.

Broken packages in MXE OctaveEdit

  • Should there be a grace period for package maintainers to adapt to Octave 6 before the 6.1 release?
    • Release is scheduled for November.
    • Active package maintainers already up-to-date.
    • Only contact package maintainers who's packages currently fail:
      • odepkg runs in an infinite loop while testing #59338; BitBucket repo no longer available; Kai contacts cdf via mailing-list.
      • SparseRSB contacted in #58957.
  • Many broken packages cannot identified in MXE Octave builds.
    • jwe? reported that some packages intentionally deactivate warnings about deprecated functions until it is "too late" and the package no longer builds. Please do not do this.

Octave Buildbot (Kai)Edit

Ideas for next meetingEdit

Topic suggestionsEdit

Octave 7Edit

  • Not only providing major releases that "fix Matlab incompatibilities".
  • Great new features for a great new release.
  • Code sprints.

The future of Octave Packages (Kai)Edit

See alsoEdit

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