Editing Online Developer Meeting (2023-01-24)

* Date: Tuesday, Jan 24, 2023 @ 18:00 UTC  [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2023&month=1&day=24&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 ==
* Release candidate?
** '''First RC released'''
** '''Discussion about automating release process, which is currently manual and error-prone'''
** '''Discussion about whether we can do continuous delivery: head of stable branch would be the released version. No decision yet.'''
** jwe will announce the availability of the first release candidate with a new thread on the Discourse forum.

* Eliminate doc/liboctave?
** See [https://octave.discourse.group/t/eliminate-doc-liboctave/3849 thread on Discourse forum]
** '''Only 3400 lines, maybe 2700 lines without license text'''
** '''JWE aims for the Doxygen to be stable and helpful, like the Qt docs'''
** '''nrjank will look through files to list any with information worth retaining.''' That information should be moved to inline doxygen comments if it is useful.

* Coding style changes
** '''Discussion on where to add content from wiki. Converged to /etc/<something>.''' Maybe split the current HACKING.md file multiple files for different categories (e.g., style, release process, ...).
** '''C++: specify void or not. Converged to removing void in code that is not (extern) C.'''
** '''C++: brace initialization lists'''
** '''C++: default member initialization'''
** '''C++: Rule of 3 / Rule of 5, move constructors, move operators, etc'''

* [https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2023 GSOC 2023 timeline] 
** Org applications: Jan 23-Feb 7, notified Feb 21 (reapply supposed to be 'easy')
** Contributor proposals: Mar 20-Apr 4, Rankings due 4/27, Selections announced May 4
** '''nrjank will go ahead with preapplication activities: solicit mentor interest from Octave devs, reach out to Nir re application mechanics'''
** '''nrjank will also look into [https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs Google Season of Documentation (GSoD)]'''

== Previous 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?

== See also ==

* Next meeting: [[Online Developer Meeting (2023-02-28)]]
* Last meeting: [[Online Developer Meeting (2022-12-20)]]

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