Online Developer Meeting (2025-02-25)

Today's topics

Octave 9.4.0 has been released
Release process of Octave 10
- potential blockers? (lastwarn)
- Ok to push fix for reading NA values on ARM?
- Remaining tasks
- Keep contributors that didn't explicitly agree to that in doc/interpreter/contributors.in?

Another Octave 9.x release? (Issue with load path update on Windows)
Spam on Wiki: Discourse thread
Should we consolidate the number of automated pulls from savannah via HTTPS? See also support ticket for Savannah admins.
- buildbot.octave.org: every 5 minutes (for stable and default branches) and for each triggered build
- nightly.octave.org: every 10 minutes (for stable branch) and once per day if a build is triggered.
- synchronization to GitHub repository: every 5(?) minutes (for stable, default, and bytecode-interpreter branches)
Apple Accelerate and single precision floating point numbers. See also the Discourse thread.
load path update with files in "execution stack". See also bug #66659: Octave crashes with SIGSEGV when debugging class methods
GSOC 2025:
- confirm interest and/or support intent?
- several early inquiries - Worth it to update/augment/create 'welcome' info?
- GSOC page list probably stale, other project list likely as well. We have a number of big ideas with full range of progress from 0 to ??.
  - Can any _portions_ be turned into summer sized projects to kickstart activity? (Qt dev? GUI? Aspects of Classdef? HDF5, etc?)
  - We can always reject any unsound proposals, but history seems to suggest we'll only get solid applicants for proposed ideas.
- Based on 2024 issues, establish/publish a 'no selection if no pre-proposal communication' policy?
How to publish package on Octave Forge? See bug #66705: vrml package does not install