Online Developer Meeting (2024-04-23)
Today's topicsEdit
- Timing for next bugfix release
- GSoC projects
- 8 applications
- Selection the day after the meeting
- OctConf 2024
- Roadmap and priorities for Octave 10
- Discuss a potential timeline for native string class support
- Blocker: Inability to save classdef objects to files. Potentially realizable in incremental steps:
- Implement a low-level HDF5 interface that is usable from .m code.
- Implement saving double arrays in Matlab-compatible -v7.3 format in .m files.
- Implement saving in that format for other types (including classdef).
- Should we make and distribute nightly builds for Windows for the default branch?
- Traffic from Digital Ocean limited to 4 TB. (Higher monthly rate if exceeded?)
- Probably no additional nightly build configurations for now.
- Octave in MSYS2 (binary distributor for Windows MinGW)
Previous topicsEdit
- Timing for next bugfix release (middle of April, approx. one month after the 9.1.0 release)
- bug #65476 (`mkoctfile -p LIBS` includes unnecessary libraries) Done
- Copyright dates for documentation, and possible MXE-Octave files out of date Done
- In the future, we'll likely aim for a .2.0 release around a month after the .1.0 release; a .3.0 around 3 month after the .1.0 release; and a .4.0 release about 6 months after the .1.0 release. If necessary, additional releases are possible in between or after these approximate dates, or some releases could be skipped.
- Andreas Bertsatos will open a thread about extracting demos from classdef files [1]
- OctConf 2024
- Agreed. Eastern North America likely. Rik will post a poll.
- Roadmap and priorities for Octave 10
- Which important features to focus on for Octave 10?
- JWE will try to make MExceptions real classdef objects (not overloadable, fully implemented in C++)
- JWE will try to start a thread on Discourse about potential new features for Octave 10.
- Discuss a potential timeline for native string class support