Editing Online Developer Meeting (2022-12-20)

* Date: Tuesday, Dec 20, 2022 @ 18:00 UTC  [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2022&month=12&day=20&hour=18&min=0&sec=0&p1=263&p2=37&p3=248&p4=202 Convert timezones here!]
* Location: https://meet.jit.si/octave-dev

== Today's topics ==
* Octave 8.1 release activities

* NumFOCUS activities:
** Only pending item: project address
** Collect remaining signatures if any

* How to deal with the increased frequency of crashes involving the qt graphics toolkit?

== Previous topics ==

* Outcomes from NumFOCUS meeting (2022-11-07).
** Converge on who's willing / unwilling to be a signatory.
** '''Consensus: mmuetzel preferred not being listed. Rik was OK either way. Other signatories (jwe, siko1056, nrjank, arungiridhar) converged.'''
** '''mmuetzel and colin wanted to know other GNU projects that have joined NumFOCUS and how they managed their transition. Arun has reached out to GNU Radio.'''

* Octave infrastructure - FOSSHost abandonment
** (That host never came back up at all. Arun has been checking its status daily.)
** '''Not much discussion on this topic, except jwe reiterated that it was good practice for emergency recovery, and mentioned he and siko1056 are continuing to strengthen the server backup systems.'''

* Progress toward Octave 8.1 release
** bugs that must be resolved first ("blockers"):
***
** bugs requiring some effort that would be nice to resolve first:
***
** "easy" close bugs that should be able to be resolved first:
***
*** '''This discussion turned into organizing the release checklists better for Octave 8, and as a result, the wiki page [[8.1 Release Checklist]] was created by nrjank based on [[7.1 Release Checklist]] and is being updated.'''

* Pick some "big feature(s)" to work on for Octave 9:
** VM?
** String class?
** Dictionary / hashmap?
** Context-sensitive tab completion? (GSoC maybe)
** (your ideas here)
** '''The string class was agreed upon as the highest priority among the above. It is necessary for other features like the dictionary.'''
** '''There was discussion about whether to deprecate existing string behavior for two releases or make a change when it's ready. That was not converged upon, but it was agreed that putting an early notice of potential future breakage in the NEWS file would be good.'''

== See also ==

* Next meeting: [[Online Developer Meeting (2023-01-24)]]
* Last meeting: [[Online Developer Meeting (2022-11-22)]]

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