Online Developer Meeting (2024-05-28)

Today's topics

Timing for next bugfix release
- potential blocker(?): bug #65605: Octave call to function figure(); results in segfault with Qt6 6.7.0
- jwe creates release candidate (see: Release candidate for Octave 9.2.0 available
GSoC projects
- 8 applications
- Selection the day after the meeting
OctConf 2024
Roadmap and priorities for Octave 10
Discuss a potential timeline for native string class support
- Blocker: Inability to save classdef objects to files. Potentially realizable in incremental steps:
  - Implement a low-level HDF5 interface that is usable from .m code.
  - Implement saving double arrays in Matlab-compatible -v7.3 format in .m files.
  - Implement saving in that format for other types (including classdef).
Should we make and distribute nightly builds for Windows for the default branch?
- Traffic from Digital Ocean limited to 4 TB. (Higher monthly rate if exceeded?)
- Probably no additional nightly build configurations for now.
Octave in MSYS2 (binary distributor for Windows MinGW)