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

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* [https://octave.discourse.group/ Discourse for GNU Octave]
* [https://octave.discourse.group/ Discourse for GNU Octave]
** Replacement for mailing-lists (help@octave.org and maintainers@octave.org) and https://planet.octave.org
** Replacement for mailing-lists (help@octave.org and maintainers@octave.org) and https://planet.octave.org
*** '''TODO:''' Advertise on Octave homepage and announce on mailing-lists
** Badge system
** Badge system
** Discussions are welcome
** Discussions are welcome
*** Max. image upload size???
*** '''TODO:'''Max. image upload size???
*** Max. edit time???
*** '''TODO:'''Max. edit time???
** See also https://octave.discourse.group/t/do-we-want-to-adopt-discourse/39
** See also https://octave.discourse.group/t/do-we-want-to-adopt-discourse/39
* (No time left, maybe next time) <strike>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]].
* (No time left, maybe next time) <strike>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]].

Revision as of 15:28, 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)

Ideas for next meeting

Topic suggestions

See also