Online Developer Meeting (2023-04-25)
Today's topicsEdit
- Octave 8.2.0 released
- Release process went pretty smoothly.
- If no specific extraordinary motivation, we won't need release candidates for future bug-fix releases.
- @jwe will try to provide existing helper scripts and instructions for release process.
- Coding Community Events
- OctConf 2023?
- @jwe proposed to do that in the form of a developer summit for a couple of days.
- @Rik offered to open a poll for dates/venue/... on the discourse forum.
- Probably, at least 6 months lead time.
- Online coding sprints?
- Maybe in the form of a loose online meeting for the duration of a weekend?
- @Rik offered to open a poll for dates/tools/... on the discourse forum.
- GSoC discussion
- Process for evaluation of student applications has started.
- Some promising candidates.
- Possible version 9 projects:
- Qt6 (does that force us to require a C++17 compiler?)
- Only enablement patches have landed so far. Further integration and bug fixes are still needed.
- new terminal widget
- arguments blocks
- improved breakpoint handling
- experimental stack-based virtual machine
- MException object
- string object (separate from having double-quoted characters create string objects)
- HDF5-based save and load compatible with Matlab's file format
- refactor octave_function and classes derived from it
- broadcasting for sparse
- make graphics and GUI event processing in the interpreter independent from readline
- Status of Octave Forge
- should the Octave bug tracker continue to be used for reporting bugs in external packages?
- Propose package maintainers to move to own trackers.
- if not, how can we make it easy to find the location to report bugs for a package/package function? How do other systems like Python, R, etc., handle this problem?
- Some old bug reports have been closed recently - thanks!
Current stats by year:
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2010 |
2011 |
2012 |
2013 |
2014 |
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
total
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| Octave |
1 |
16 |
16 |
41 |
79 |
101 |
160 |
129 |
180 |
201 |
132 |
126 |
117 |
54 |
1353
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| Octave Forge |
|
|
|
3 |
9 |
19 |
27 |
38 |
28 |
39 |
54 |
44 |
49 |
16 |
326
|
Previous topicsEdit
- @jwe's server is now set up as a buildbot worker for buildbot.octave.space (Windows nightlies)
- Worker needs to be started manually on reboot. Other than that it is working.
- Upload is slow. Maybe, skip (building and) uploading the .zip archive. Installer and .7z archive are probably enough.
- Octave 8.1 released
- Does it make sense to make release candidates?
- Release Octave 8.2.0 with a couple of urgent fixes (see below) probably soon.
- Fix for issue with element-wise
| and & in if conditions is already pushed to the stable branch.
- Issues when writing to streams while converting output
- @arungiridhar already pushed a fix for streams in binary mode to the stable branch.
- Change default to "no conversion" (i.e., UTF-8) when opening streams with
fopen without explicitly specifying an encoding. Matlab also defaults to UTF-8 in newer versions. And this might mitigate the encoding issue (at least with default settings).
- Symbol visibility for Octave libraries causing issues for some Octave packages?
- Change default to disable selective symbol visibility again.
- Internal representation of character arrays in Octave
- @jwe proposed to open a thread on Discourse if we'd like to discuss this.
- GSoC 2023
- Application period will start soon.
- NumFOCUS
- Go ahead with application (without waiting for feedback from FSF any longer).