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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 seem to be fixed (bug #56952)
- still elusive crashes while running the test suite on the build bots (bug #57591) -> Maybe the broader user base of an RC can shed some light on "real-life frequency" of these crashes.
- possible background: interaction between graphics system and interpreter is different from interaction of rest of GUI with the interpreter. Possibly resolvable by a copy-on-write approach for graphics objects (postponed to Octave 7)
- calling script from nested functions (bug #58691 fixed)
- empty list creation if one element is not assigned (bug #58686 not a blocker)
- Try to tackle bugs with debuggers
- valgrind slow
-fsanitize=thread
in memory and faster
- Discourse for GNU Octave YES, we give it a try
- Replacement for mailing-lists (help@octave.org and maintainers@octave.org) and https://planet.octave.org
- Leave old mailing-lists as they are now, but no longer actively advertise them.
- TODO:
Advertise on Octave homepage and announce on mailing-lists
- Badge system, will stay active for the start
- Discussions are welcome
- Max. image upload size: (Yes) There is not a restriction in the file size, but in the megapixels
max image megapixels = 40
and dimension max image width = 690
, max image height = 500
.
- Max. edit time: Yes, there is
editing grace period = 300
seconds, but admins can edit any post.
- See also https://octave.discourse.group/t/do-we-want-to-adopt-discourse/39
- (No time left, maybe next time)
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 meetingSee also