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{{Note|Do you use Octave at your working place or university? Do you have some numerical project in mind?  You are always welcome to '''propose your own projects'''.  If you are passionate about your project, it will be easy to find an Octave developer to mentor and guide you.}}
{{Note|Do you use Octave at your working place or university? Do you have some numerical project in mind?  You are always welcome to '''propose your own projects'''.  If you are passionate about your project, it will be easy to find an Octave developer to mentor and guide you.}}
== openlibm ==
Over the years Octave faced many issues about different [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_mathematical_functions#libm C mathematical functions library] (in short: "libm") implementations on various systems.  To overcome similar issues, developers of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_(programming_language) Julia Programming Language] started the [https://openlibm.org/ openlibm] project "to have a good libm [ ...] that work[s] consistently across compilers and operating systems, and in 32-bit and 64-bit environments".  openlibm is supported by major Linux distributions (e.g. [https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/libopenlibm-dev Debian/Ubuntu], [https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/openlibm RHEL/Fedora],[https://software.opensuse.org/package/openlibm SLES/openSUSE], ...) and the [https://hg.octave.org/mxe-octave/rev/480f60641fc2 MS Windows MXE package] was added as well.
This project consists of learning about the usage of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Autotools GNU Autotools] in Octave and ways to detect openlibm.  As the next step the Octave code base has to be reviewed under the guidance of a mentor and relevant code changes should be performed.  Finally, relevant code changes in the [[Tests | Octave test suite]] are performed an tested on various Linux, MS Windows, and macOS machines with the help of the Octave community.
* '''Project size''' [[#Project sizes | [?]]]
: ~175 hours
* '''Required skills'''
: Octave, C/C++
* '''Potential mentors'''
: [https://octave.discourse.group/u/cdf Carlo de Falco], [https://octave.discourse.group/u/siko1056 Kai]


== ode15{i,s} : Matlab Compatible DAE solvers ==
== ode15{i,s} : Matlab Compatible DAE solvers ==