Editing Online Developer Meeting (2020-10-27)

* Date: [https://octave.discourse.group/t/online-developer-meeting/106 Tuesday, October 27, 2020 @ 18:00 UTC]
* Location: https://meet.jit.si/octave-dev-2020-10-27

== Todays topics ==

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

=== Octave 6 release status ===

{{note|Octave 6 release in November (tentative)}}

* What is left to be done?
** Complete items in [[6.1 Release Checklist]]
** There are '''13''' bugs marked for '''6.0.9x''' release candidates (see [https://octave.space/savannah/ bug overview page])
*** For the Octave 6 release this number has not necessarily to be 0
*** Developers should go through this list and focus on the relevant ones:
**** {{bug|59206}} "crash during matrix multiplication (Win only)"
***** '''Very important''' probably an OpenBLAS issue.
**** {{bug|59331}} "Processor load stays up after `__run_test_suite__`"
***** Still investigating.
**** {{bug|57591}} "Segmentation faults when running the test suite (mostly with clang)"?
***** jwe reported he has a trace log to get to the bottom of it.

=== Broken packages in MXE Octave ===

* Should there be a grace period for package maintainers to adapt to Octave 6 before the 6.1 release?
** Release is scheduled for November
** Active package maintainers already up-to-date
** Only contact package maintainers who's packages currently fail:
*** [[odepkg]] runs in an infinite loop while testing; BitBucket repo no longer available; Kai contacts cdf via mailing-list
*** [https://octave.sourceforge.io/sparsersb/ SparseRSB] contacted in {{bug|58957}}
* Many broken packages cannot identified in the mxe-builds
** jwe? reported that some packages intentionally deactivate warnings about deprecated functions until it is "too late" and the package no longer builds.  '''Please do not do this.'''

=== Octave Buildbot (Kai) ===

* https://octave.space
* Build artifacts are hosted on a private server in Germany ([https://www.ionos.de/server/vps IONOS VPS M], 80 GB SSD, '''No traffic limit''')
** '''Possibility to advertise this page as "Nightly builds"''' (May I do this? 🙂)
* System (1 master, 4 worker) builds once per day the Octave stable branch (if changes happened)
** Octave tarballs (gz, lz, xz)
** Documentation (manual, Doxygen) can be viewed on the site
** All MXE flavors (32, 64, 64-64)
* [https://siko1056.github.io/blog/2020/10/16/octave-buildbot-app.html Some article about octave-buildbot].
* Source & development: https://github.com/gnu-octave/octave-buildbot

== Ideas for next meeting ==

=== Topic suggestions ===

* The future of Octave Packages
** [[Octave Forge]]
** https://gnu-octave.github.io/pkg-index/

== See also ==

* Next meeting: TBA
* Last meeting: [[Online Developer Meeting (2020-07-28)]]

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