Online Developer Meeting (2023-02-28)
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- Date: Tuesday, Feb 28, 2023 @ 18:00 UTC Convert timezones here!
- Location: https://meet.jit.si/octave-dev
Today's topics
- Future of buildbot.octave.space: https://octave.discourse.group/t/future-of-buildbot-octave-space/3993
- Future of packages being maintained at sourceforge.net: https://octave.discourse.group/t/are-there-still-any-maintainers-for-octave-forge/4002
Previous 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)
See also
- Next meeting: Online Developer Meeting (2023-03-28)
- Last meeting: Online Developer Meeting (2023-01-24)