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=== Octave 6 release status === | === Octave 6 release status === | ||
* [[6.1 Release Checklist]] | {{note|Octave 6 release in November (tentative)}} | ||
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* [https://octave. | * 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 [https://octave.space/savannah/ 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: | |||
**** {{bug|59206}} "crash during matrix multiplication (Win only)" | |||
***** '''Very important''' probably an OpenBLAS issue. | |||
**** {{bug|59331}} "Processor load stays up after `__run_test_suite__`" | |||
***** Still investigating. | |||
**** {{bug|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 Octave === | |||
* 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; BitBucket repo no longer available; Kai contacts cdf via mailing-list | |||
*** [https://octave.sourceforge.io/sparsersb/ SparseRSB] contacted in {{bug|58957}} | |||
* Many broken packages cannot identified in the mxe-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) === | === Octave Buildbot (Kai) === | ||
* https://octave.space | |||
* Build artifacts are hosted on a private server in Germany ([https://www.ionos.de/server/vps IONOS VPS M], 80 GB SSD, '''No traffic limit''') | |||
** '''Possibility to advertise this page as "Nightly builds"''' (May I do this? 🙂) | |||
* System (1 master, 4 worker) builds once per day the Octave stable branch (if changes happened) | |||
** Octave tarballs (gz, lz, xz) | |||
** Documentation (manual, Doxygen) can be viewed on the site | |||
** All MXE flavors (32, 64, 64-64) | |||
* [https://siko1056.github.io/blog/2020/10/16/octave-buildbot-app.html Some article about octave-buildbot]. | * [https://siko1056.github.io/blog/2020/10/16/octave-buildbot-app.html Some article about octave-buildbot]. | ||
* | * Source & development: https://github.com/gnu-octave/octave-buildbot | ||
== Ideas for next meeting == | == Ideas for next meeting == | ||