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:''This page contains links to pages of interest to Octave developers.''

= 💡 Getting started 🔰 =
* [[Developer FAQ]] -- Start here.
* [[Contribution guidelines]] for Octave
** [[C++ style guide]]
** [[Octave style guide]]
** [[Help text style guide]]

= 🔬 Octave development =

: {{Note|Attend our [[Online Developer Meeting (2021-07-27)]] 🙂💬 (See [[:Category:Meetings | all meetings]])}}

== 🛠️ [[:Category:Building|Building]] ==

* [[Building]] -- General information how to build Octave from source.
** [[Building on Microsoft Windows]]
** [[Building on Ubuntu Virtual Machine]]
* [[Continuous Build]] -- Check changes with [https://buildbot.net/ Buildbot].
* [[MXE]] -- Cross-compiling to MS Windows.
* [[Enable large arrays: Build octave such that it can use arrays larger than 2Gb.|Large array support]] --

=== 🔧 Tools ===

* [[Mercurial]] -- How to use Octave's version control scheme, creating patches (changesets).
* [[Doxygen]] -- Documentation for C++ files
* [https://ccache.samba.org/ ccache] -- How to faster compile Octave.
* [[:Category:Editors|Editors]] -- A list of editors supporting Octave syntax highlighting.

== ⚖️ [[:Category:Testing|Testing]] ==

* [[Tests]]
* [[BIST for m-files]]
* [[Add BIST tests for octave functions written in C++|BIST for C++ files]]

== 🐞 Debugging ==

* [[Debugging Octave]] -- How to use [https://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/ gdb] to obtain stack traces.
* [[Finding Memory Leaks]] -- How to use [https://www.valgrind.org/ valgrind].

== 🎉 [[:Category:Releases|Releasing]] ==

* The next major release will be '''GNU Octave 7.1'''.  The release procedure has not yet started.  Use '''[[6.1 Release Checklist]]''' as template for organization.
* The next minor release will be '''GNU Octave 6.3.0'''.  The release procedure has started and progress may be tracked on the [[6.3 Release Checklist]] page.
* [[:Category:Releases|Older releases]]
* "Nightly" Octave releases on https://octave.space

== 🎯 Goals for upcoming releases ==

As discussed in the [[Online Developer Meeting (2020-10-27)]], this wiki section is for a list of possible goals for the next release.  Although anyone may edit the wiki, '''this section is intended for active developers, not a place to dump wishlist items or feature requests'''.  Please create a subsection for your ideas/priorities.

=== jwe priorities ===
:''See also [[JWE Project Ideas]] for additional info about some of these items.''

* Bug fixes, especially those related to compatibility issues.
* Work through the open bug reports for which patches have been submitted.  Review/apply/reject and close as many of these reports as possible.
* Refactor/rewrite code for handling load path.
* Refactor/rewrite exist and which functions.
* Create a low-level interface to HDF5 functions.
* Support Matlab's HDF5-based MAT file format using the proposed low-level interface to HDF5 functions.
** Allow all types of function handles to be saved and loaded.
** Allow [[classdef]] objects to be saved and loaded.
* Replace the [[GUI terminal widget|terminal widget in the GUI]].
* Accept Matlab's new argument validation syntax in parser.

= 💡 [[:Category:Project_Ideas|Project ideas]] and work in progress =

* [[Short projects]] -- Good starting point to get into the Octave development.
* [[Summer of Code - Getting Started]] -- Ideas page for GSoC, SOCIS, ... projects.
* [[Projects]] -- Many things that would be nice to have done.
** [[Classdef]] -- Define own data types using <code>classdef</code>.
** [[JIT]] -- Just in time compiler for Octave.
** [[GUI terminal widget]] -- Ideas about a new improved terminal widget.
** [[International Characters Support]] -- Using Octave in your own language.
** [[Pythonic]] -- Calling Python functions directly from Octave.

= Other =

* [[Project Infrastructure]]

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