Editing Online Developer Meeting (2022-09-27)

* Date: Tuesday, Sep 27, 2022 @ 18:00 UTC
* Location: https://meet.jit.si/octave-dev

== Today's topics ==

* GSoC updates
* Octave 7.3 and 8 release timeline.
** Octave 7 was released late (April instead of Jan) and there was interest in releasing Octave 8 earlier. Specifics to discuss:
** Should we merge default to stable early? October?
** Should we skip 7.3 and go straight to 8?

== Previous topics ==

* Octave 7.2 has been released
* VM activities:
** Configure switches to enable/disable compiling the VM have been added.
** No actual VM code has been pushed so far. It needs to be rebased on a (more) current head.
* Transition to Fosshost:
** The buildbot server has been moved from the Digital Ocean server to Fosshost. The Digital Ocean server will be retired.
** The new buildbot server URL is [https://buildbot.octave.org https://buildbot.octave.org] (without explicitly specifying a port). Documentation still referring to the URL with the port number might need to be updated.
** The Fosshost server is periodically mirrored to the Dreamhost server. This is likely to stay that way unless someone complains.
* shadowing of core functions from statistics package
** Packages should try to avoid shadowing core functions as far as possible.
** As a "compromise" to make newer features available to older Octave versions, packages could conditionally shadow core functions depending on version numbers. See, e.g., [https://octave.discourse.group/t/new-maintainer-for-the-statistics-package/2791/83?u=mmuetzel] for a possible approach.

== See also ==

* Next meeting: [[Online Developer Meeting (2022-10-25)]]
* Last meeting: [[Online Developer Meeting (2022-08-23)]]

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 * GSoC updates
-** '''GSoC successfully completed.'''
-** '''Three candidates submitted code.'''
-** '''Sarrah spoke about her contributions (Carlo was not present)'''
-* Since this is the end of GSoC should Sudeepam' {{bug|46881}} be reviewed for version 8? siko1056 asked why this could not be included in version 7 in 2020.
-** Should the GSoC patches/bugs be labeled as (GSoC <yyyy>) so these are easier to catch?
-** '''Kai mentioned old GSoC contributions that had not been merged into the tree yet. JWE asked Kai to make a list of such changes, and the people who can review them will need to be rounded up so it can all be merged.'''
 * Octave 7.3 and 8 release timeline.
-** Octave 7. 1 was released late (April instead of Jan) and there was interest in releasing Octave 8.1 earlier. Specifics to discuss:
+** Octave 7 was released late (April instead of Jan) and there was interest in releasing Octave 8 earlier. Specifics to discuss:
 ** Should we merge default to stable early? October?
 ** Should we skip 7.3 and go straight to 8?
-** '''Agreed on releasing 8 according to timeline, so merge default to stable in early November'''
-** '''Agreed on releasing 7.3 in October'''
-** '''jwe would prefer 8.1 to also list the bugfixes not just the new features. Bugfixes are listed for point releases like 7.2 but not yet for new releases.'''
-* '''JWE mentioned old submitted patches (not just GSoC) that are languishing in Savannah without being reviewed or accepted. Asked us all to go through patches and review / accept them.'''
-* '''Changing PCRE to PCRE2'''
-** '''JWE mentioned having to make those changes in regexp functions, but changes are fairly localized, so hopefully easy to make'''
-* '''Add memoize as a feature:'''
-** '''Arun will update Guillaume's contribution from last year and seek reviews/push in the next couple of weeks'''
-* '''Discussion on adding a hashing algorithm to Octave for Matlab compatibility:'''
-** '''JWE and Guillaume discussed Matlab 2022b's behavior on their new dictionary type.'''
-** '''JWE thinks Octave should accommodate "double.empty" and similar constructs from Matlab.'''
 == Previous topics ==