Editing Online Developer Meeting (2020-07-28)

* Date: [https://octave.discourse.group/t/online-developer-meeting/106 Tuesday, July 28, 2020 @ 18:00 UTC]
* Location: https://meet.jit.si/octave-dev-2020-07-28

== 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.
** Update gnulib before RC
** Tag some cset on stable.
** Build MS Windows binaries.
** Upload to https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/octave/ .

* Still hard to fix blocking bugs
** Bug with graphic handles while closing Octave (bug {{bug|58814}}) was reported.  This happens when exit is called from a script or when directly calling exit after running the script in the CLI.  How to properly handle graphics callbacks during exit?
** 32-bit MS Windows builds
*** ode15 with Sundials make problems (bug {{bug|58795}}). Maybe already solved.
*** Precision problems failing the test suite (bug {{bug|58807}}).  Solvable by requiring SSE2 instructions.  Go ahead with it.
*** Unreported GUI problems.  Please report them.

* Are there breaking changes in Octave 6 to inform package maintainers?  No, only deprecated functions are now removed.

* Add script to start GDB session from Octave for debugging, see [[Debugging Octave]].

=== Octave community ===

* Changes about the mailing-list advertisements
** Are there sports left where the help mailing-list is advertised, e.g. GUI?  Maybe not.

* Get rid of nabble?  (Discussion was short here)

=== Octave 7 ideas ===

* Range datatype
** Should Octave support numeric operations on them?
** There was a thread on the maintainers mailing-list by jwe.  Open discourse thread about it.

* Loading and saving
** Octave load/save supports a bunch of data types (mat v4, text, ascii, ...)
*** Deprecate some of them?  Open Discourse discussion about it.
*** Large array support for Octave's own storage types?
*** Storage of nested functions in mat v4 in Matlab possible?
** Focus on the HDF5 format in the future.  Matlab prioritizes it too, external tools for viewing the files available.
** Support classdef load/save.

== Ideas for next meeting ==

=== Topic suggestions ===

== See also ==

* Next meeting: TBA
* Last meeting: [[Online Developer Meeting (2020-07-07)]]

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