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== Today's topics ==
== Today's topics ==


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* 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:
** Merge default to stable early? October?
** Can we skip 7.3 and go straight to 8?


== Previous topics ==
== Previous topics ==

Revision as of 13:02, 1 September 2022

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:
    • Merge default to stable early? October?
    • Can 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 (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., [1] for a possible approach.

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