Editing Online Developer Meeting (2021-06-22)

* Date: Tuesday, June 22, 2021 @ 18:00 UTC
* Location: https://meet.jit.si/octave-dev-2021-06-22

== Todays topics ==

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

=== Octave 6.3.0 ===

* [[6.3 Release Checklist]]
* If nothing big shows up, go ahead with the release in about 10 days (early July).

=== OctConf? ===
* Instead of an in-person conference, meet up virtually.
* Ideas for code-sprint?
** Improve test coverage
** That could include automated tests for GUI features ("expect", Qt test classes, set <code>OCTAVE_SHOW_GUI_MESSAGES</code> to 1 to display signals with missing connections, ...). Does anyone have experience with this?

=== GUI ===
* Make widgets more modular
** remove connections to parents (or parents of parents,...)
** Only pass settings objects (instead of base qwidget) to widgets?
* Add widgets for:
** displaying call stack. Select function in stack for appropriate <code>dbup</code> or <code>dbdown</code> command.
** displaying result to an expression. Similar to debugger (watcher, ...)
* User expectations for evaluation code from the editor ("Evaluate selection") or the variable editor ("plot") while there is still pending input on the command line?

=== Breakpoints ===
* Add feature to temporarily disable breakpoints
* Check syntax for breakpoints in subfunctions, local functions, private functions, methods, ... (<code>dbstatus</code>)

=== <code>gsd</code> ===
* Current version is not Matlab-compatible nor correct in some circumstances.
* Rik is currently implementing a replacement.

=== IRC channel on Freenode is down ===
* Replacement on libera?
* jwe will probably post something on discourse.

== Previous topics ==
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=== Discourse ===

* General question about the acceptance.
** We like it.
* Continue to no longer actively advertise the mailing-lists.

=== GitHub Actions ===

* Markus gave a small presentation of this project.
** https://github.com/gnu-octave/octave/actions (need to be member of the https://github.com/gnu-octave organization, just ask on Discourse https://octave.discourse.group/t/github-gitlab-organization-for-gnu-octave/178).
** Not 100% perfect yet, but already in a good shape.
** CodeQL static code analysis 
** '''Help with macOS wanted'''

=== QScintilla signal/slot problem ===

* Bug {{bug|60469}}
* On MS Windows only for QScintilla the "safer" signal/slot changes seem to not work.
** Revert it until the problem is identified.

== Ideas for next meeting ==

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== See also ==

* Next meeting: [[Online Developer Meeting (2021-07-27)]]
* Last meeting: [[Online Developer Meeting (2021-05-25)]]

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