Dave writes: I spent last month working on rewriting and modernising perlxs.pod, Perl's reference manual for XS. It's still a work-in-progress, so nothing's been pushed yet. Summary: 49:49 modernise perlxs.pod Total: 49:49 TOTAL

Tony writes: 2025/05/01 Thursday 0.17 #23232 minor fixes to PR 1.32 #4106 cleanup, perldelta push for CI 1.48 #23225 more review 1.37 #23225 more review, thought I found an issue, testing, but couldn’t reproduce 4.34 2025/05/05 Monday 0.72 #23242 review, testing, nothing more to say 0.95 #23244 review, testing and approve 1.67 2025/05/06 Tuesday 0.32 #22040 testing and comment

Tony writes: 2025/04/01 Tuesday 0.22 #23151 check CI results, fix minitest and re-push 1.77 #23160 try to decode how the NEED_ stuff works, try leont’s suggestion and test, push for CI 0.82 #22125 check smoke results, rebase and push 0.50 #21878 consider how to implement this 0.53 ppc #70 testing, comment 3.84 2025/04/02 Wednesday 0.23 #23075 rebase and squash some, push for

Paul writes: As earlier reported, I managed to make some progress on the faster-signatures work, as well as some other things. 2 Bugfix for assigning operator https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/23242 1 Exception handling during defer/finally https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/23244 4 faster-signatures and CVf_NOSNAIL performance work https://github.com/leonerd/perl5/tree/faster-signatures 2 Signature helper functions in class.c https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/3e684b47ee6bec19678c13d8f10b6824ab4c286b Total: 9 hours

Dave writes: A bit of a quiet month. I checked blead for any performance regressions compared with 5.40.0, using Porting/bench.pl. I found only one significant one: UTF8 string literals were inadvertently no longer being created Copy-on-Write. I created a PR which improves how OPs are dumped on threaded builds. This will make certain types of debugging easier in the future. Fixed a bug. Tweaked my ParseXS AST

Tony writes: 2025/03/03 Monday 0.83 #23015 research and comment 0.22 #23012 research and comment 0.45 #22827 review updates and re-approve 0.68 amagic_call/coverity follow-up, work on a fix, commit message wording, check is clangsa picks this up 0.15 amagic_call/coverity, commit message, push for CI 0.28 #22642 review updates and approve 0.78 #23044 research and comment 3.39 2025/03/04 Tuesday 0.80 #23012 comment,

Tony writes: 2025/02/03 Monday 0.28 ppc 30/31 list catch up 0.13 github notifications 0.08 #22955 briefly comment 0.62 #22956 review, testing and comment 0.23 #22957 review and approve 0.30 #22958 review and approve 0.42 #22970 review and approve 0.92 #22917 review, research, testing and approve 2.98 2025/02/04 Tuesday 0.45 github notifications 0.23 #22955 review and approve 1.27 #22963

Dave writes: This is my monthly report on work done during Mar and Apr 2025, covered by my TPF perl core maintenance grant. I spent most of my time continuing to refactor Extutils::ParseXS, as a precursor to adding reference-counted stack abilities to XS. In particular, I've recently pushed a large PR, intended to be merged once 5.42.0 is done, which converts ParseXS to create an AST for each XSUB it

Stefan has now come to a conclusion of his efforts with RakuAST. This mammoth task started previously by Jonathan Worthington. In the time since his award of the grant, he has made 823 commits to RakuAST, and his overall contribution to Raku in the past couple of years is second only to the very prolific Elizabeth Mattijsen. His contributions can be viewed on github. It is impossible to describe all

Paul writes: Hours: 4.5 SV vstring API https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/23075 1.5 PERL_MAGIC_env independence in hv.c https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/23076 4 HvSTASHAUX https://github.com/leonerd/perl5/tree/hv-stashaux 3 Rename any and all features https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/23105 Total: 13 hours