Short projects

This is a collection of small projects to start contributing to Octave. Projects of long duration are listed in the Projects page.

If you never contributed to Octave before, we suggest to start with our Developer FAQ.

Review and fix existing bugs

• Review bugs that catch your interest on the Octave bug tracker on GNU Savannah.
  • A modern interface to the Octave bug tracker is given by SavannahAPI.
• Discuss with the developers there how to fix that bug or upload a patch there.
• Some bugs have already patches attached.
  • Help testing those patches.
  • Help updating outdated patches to the latest development version (this requires some Mercurial knowledge).

Implement missing Matlab functions

Use the Savannah patch tracker for submissions unrelated to an existing bug.

Write Built-In Self Tests (BISTs)

Writing BISTs improves Octave's regression testing and ensures that we don't break anything when we add new features.

• BIST for C++ functions
• BIST for m-files. See also Projects#Tests.

Work on Octave packages

• Take a look at https://gnu-octave.github.io/packages/ if you would like to work on some package there.

Easy Closes

bug	bug title	status
#32839	pkg build/install does not work with directories	OP states to close
#36954	datenum / datevec convert date-time string incorrectly during hour lost to DST	siko1056 suggests closing as won't fix
#38134	[octave forge] (signal) bug in remez	njank recommends closing
#38297	[octave forge] (signal) bilinear not compatible with Matlab	rjank suggests this is resolved
#39243	patch {x,y,z,c}data properties are not independent	hardy states original issue seems to be FIXED now

See also

• Projects