Online Developer Meeting (2023-04-25)

• Date: Tuesday, Apr 25, 2023 @ 18:00 UTC Convert timezones here!
• Location: https://meet.jit.si/octave-dev

Today's topics

• GSoC discussion
• Octave 8.2.0 released
• GUI development (Qt6, terminal widget, ...)

Previous topics

• @jwe's server is now set up as a buildbot worker for buildbot.octave.space (Windows nightlies)
  • Worker needs to be started manually on reboot. Other than that it is working.
  • Upload is slow. Maybe, skip (building and) uploading the .zip archive. Installer and .7z archive are probably enough.

• Octave 8.1 released
  • Does it make sense to make release candidates?
  • Release Octave 8.2.0 with a couple of urgent fixes (see below) probably soon.

• Fix for issue with element-wise | and & in if conditions is already pushed to the stable branch.

• Issues when writing to streams while converting output
  • @arungiridhar already pushed a fix for streams in binary mode to the stable branch.
  • Change default to "no conversion" (i.e., UTF-8) when opening streams with fopen without explicitly specifying an encoding. Matlab also defaults to UTF-8 in newer versions. And this might mitigate the encoding issue (at least with default settings).

• Symbol visibility for Octave libraries causing issues for some Octave packages?
  • Change default to disable selective symbol visibility again.

• Internal representation of character arrays in Octave
  • @jwe proposed to open a thread on Discourse if we'd like to discuss this.

• GSoC 2023
  • Application period will start soon.

• NumFOCUS
  • Go ahead with application (without waiting for feedback from FSF any longer).

See also

• Next meeting: Online Developer Meeting (2023-05-23)
• Last meeting: Online Developer Meeting (2023-03-28)