Original author and current maintainer of GNU Octave, Free Software advocate, and all around great guy.
Joined January 2014
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6 Jun 2014
Working on generating the first candidate for the 3.8.2 release.
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24 Feb 2014
Octave will be a mentoring organization in the Google Summer of Code this year: google-melange.com/gsoc/org/…
20 Feb 2014
One step closer to 4.0! The Initial QtHandles patch is now in the Octave gui-release branch (and merged to default): hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/oc…
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31 Jan 2014
Most of the failures appear to be due to building with --disable-docs. Things are looking better than I thought. So Yay, progress, right?
31 Jan 2014
Now I'm seeing 130 failures in the test suite on Windows with --enable-64 but at least the test suite doesn't crash Octave...
31 Jan 2014
Ah, compiling SuiteSparse with the right LONGBLAS settings makes a big difference...
22 Jan 2014
I just asked for advice about the upcoming 3.8.1 release on the mailing list. Cue the peanut gallery comments in 3, 2, 1...
22 Jan 2014
One step closer to "one-button" cross compiling of Octave for Windows, including all Octave run-time dependencies: hg.octave.org/mxe-octave/rev…
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John W. Eaton retweeted
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8 Jan 2014
Integrating QtHandles with Octave. One step closer to 4.0 and having the GUI enabled by default.
8 Jan 2014
Why "theoctaveguy"? When I tell people I work on Octave and they realize I that STARTED the project, they say, "Oh, YOU'RE the Octave guy!"
6 Jan 2014
With this change, hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/oc…, getting closer to running cvxr.com/cvx in Octave.
6 Jan 2014
@brett_t_stewart I don't think twitter is a good place for bug reports. Or would you like to see tweets about fixed bugs?
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4 Jan 2014
Octave 3.8.0 has been out for a week now. The new (still experimental) GUI seems to have stirred up a lot of activity.