Online Developer Meeting (2023-01-24)

• 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.
  • jwe will announce the availability of the first release candidate with a new thread on the Discourse forum.

• Eliminate doc/liboctave?
  • See thread on Discourse forum
  • 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. That information should be moved to inline doxygen comments if it is useful.

• Coding style changes
  • Discussion on where to add content from wiki. Converged to /etc/<something>. Maybe split the current HACKING.md file into multiple files for different categories (e.g., style, release process, ...).
  • C++: specify void or not. Converged to removing void in code that is not (extern) C.
  • 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

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