Online Developer Meeting (2020-07-07): Difference between revisions

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* Hosting Octave main website on "https://www.octave.org" (jwe's dreamhost.com account) rather than "https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/", see [[Project Infrastructure]].
* Hosting Octave main website on "https://www.octave.org" (jwe's dreamhost.com account) rather than "https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/", see [[Project Infrastructure]].
** Updating Octave's main website is pain ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrent_Versions_System CVS], see [https://hg.octave.org/web-octave/file/tip/Makefile Makefile])
** Updating Octave's main website is pain ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrent_Versions_System CVS], see [https://hg.octave.org/web-octave/file/tip/Makefile Makefile])
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== Ideas for next meeting ==
== Ideas for next meeting ==

Revision as of 15:24, 7 July 2020

Todays topics

  • Meet and greet 5 minutes before meeting (audio testing).

Octave 6 release status

  • We should create a first release candidate (RC) Octave 6.0.90 soon. Base for discussing and working on further bug findings.
  • Still hard to fix blocking bugs
    • Build (RC) anyway!
    • crashes during doc graphics creation
    • graphics system behaves different from rest of GUI (copy on write issues?)
    • calling script from nested functions (bug #xxxxx)
    • empty list creation if one element is not assigned (bug #xxxxx)
  • Try to tackle bugs with debuggers
    • valgrind slow
    • -fsanizer=thread in memory and faster

Community Infrastructure (Kai)

(No time left, maybe next time).

Ideas for next meeting

Topic suggestions

See also