Online Developer Meeting (2020-07-07)

• Date: Tuesday, July 7, 2020 @ 14:00 UTC
• Location: https://meet.jit.si/octave-dev-2020-07-07

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.
  • Tag some cset on stable.
  • Build MS Windows binaries.

Community Infrastructure (Kai)

• Discourse for GNU Octave
  • Replacement for mailing-lists (help@octave.org and maintainers@octave.org) and https://planet.octave.org
  • Badge system
  • Discussions are welcome
  • See also https://octave.discourse.group/t/do-we-want-to-adopt-discourse/39

• 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 (CVS, see Makefile)

Ideas for next meeting

See also

• Next meeting: TBA
• Last meeting: Online Developer Meeting (2020-06-09)