Online Developer Meeting (2023-01-24)
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- Date: Tuesday, Jan 24, 2023 @ 18:00 UTC Convert timezones here!
- Location: https://meet.jit.si/octave-dev
Today's topics
- Release candidate?
- First RC released
- Discussion about automating release process, which is currently manual and error-prone
- Discussion about whether we can do continuous delivery: head of stable branch would be the released version. No decision yet.
- Eliminate doc/liboctave?
- Only 3400 lines, maybe 2700 lines without license text
- JWE aims for the Doxygen to be stable and helpful, like the Qt docs
- nrjank will look through files to list any with information worth retaining
- Coding style changes
- Discussion on where to add content from wiki. Converged to /etc/<something>
- C++: specify void or not. Converged to removing void.
- C++: brace initialization lists
- C++: default member initialization
- C++: Rule of 3 / Rule of 5, move constructors, move operators, etc
- GSOC 2023 timeline
- Org applications: Jan 23-Feb 7, notified Feb 21 (reapply supposed to be 'easy')
- Contributor proposals: Mar 20-Apr 4, Rankings due 4/27, Selections announced May 4
- nrjank will go ahead with preapplication activities: solicit mentor interest from Octave devs, reach out to Nir re application mechanics
- nrjank will also look into Google Season of Documentation (GSoD)
Previous topics
- Octave 8.1 release activities
- NumFOCUS activities:
- Only pending item: project address
- Collect remaining signatures if any
- How to deal with the increased frequency of crashes involving the qt graphics toolkit?
See also
- Next meeting: Online Developer Meeting (2023-02-28)
- Last meeting: Online Developer Meeting (2022-12-20)