Mac OS X champion

[Rik]

2/10/15

Maintainers,

There are a large number of bugs on the 4.0 Release list
(http://wiki.octave.org/Bug_Fix_List_-_4.0_Release) that relate in one way
or another to Mac OS X.  Sometimes the issue is not being able to build,
often there are crashes with plotting.  Many core developers are using
Linux and so the development branch does not receive sufficient testing on
Macs.  Is there a developer with extensive Mac experience who is willing to
be a champion for the platform for the 4.0 release?  This person would
consolidate the existing bugs (lots of duplicates regarding crashes with
plotting), determine who can help and what architectural coding decisions
need to be made, and implement them or ask for help as necessary.

Without a champion, I don't think the existing core developers can address
the Mac platform issues.  We would simply have to go forward with the 4.0
release and place the Mac bugs into the queue for the 4.2 release.

--Rik