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  • Maintaining the Perl 5 Core (Dave Mitchell): Grant Report for August 2018 Tue, 18-Sep-2018 by Matthias Bloch

    This is a monthly report by Dave Mitchell on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. I didn't spend all that many hours during August on perl work. I spent most of my time looking at a bug related to restoring of captures within regex repeats. During the course of that, I took the opportunity to simplify and cleanup

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  • Maintaining Perl 5 (Tony Cook): August 2018 Grant Report Sun, 16-Sep-2018 by Matthias Bloch

    This is a monthly report by Tony Cook on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. Approximately 44 tickets were reviewed, and 4 patches were applied. 1.23 #p5p discussion with khw on shared hash problem 4.73 #132158 testing, debugging, work on a fix, more testing #132158 consider other fixes, testing, comment with patches 1.60

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  • Maintaining the Perl 5 Core (Dave Mitchell): Grant Report for July 2018 Tue, 14-Aug-2018 by Matthias Bloch
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    This is a monthly report by Dave Mitchell on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. I did very few hours last month. This was partly due to delays in getting my grant extended, and partly because I was busy with other things. SUMMARY: 2:00 RT #133352 Ancient Regex Regression 0:30 RT #133368 index optimisation in when

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  • Grant Extension Request: Perl 6 Performance and Reliability Engineering (Jonathan Worthington) Fri, 27-Jul-2018 by Matthias Bloch
    in: Grants

    Jonathan Worthington has requested an extension of $10,000 for his Perl 6 Performance and Reliability Engineering grant. This will allow him to dedicate another 200 hours to this work. His previous work was successfully delivered as reported in the latest report. Jonathan writes: "A further grant extension will enable me to continue my work on Perl 6 performance and reliability. The 200 hours I just completed have seen both optimizations

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  • Perl 6 Performance and Reliability Engineering grant report (Jonathan Worthington) Fri, 27-Jul-2018 by Matthias Bloch

    This report describes what I have accomplished in the latest 200 hours of my Perl 6 Performance and Reliability Engineering grant. A new MoarVM specializer plugin mechanism The most significant new optimizations developed in this grant period center around a new mechanism for helping the MoarVM specializer, which optimizes and JIT-compiles hot code, to understand a wider range of Perl 6 constructs. I used this mechanism to speed up: Private

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  • Grant Extension Request: Maintaining the Perl 5 Core (Dave Mitchell) Thu, 05-Jul-2018 by Matthias Bloch

    Dave Mitchell has requested an extension of $20,000 for his Maintaining Perl 5 grant. This will allow him to dedicate another 333 hours to this work. During this grant he sent regular reports to the p5p mailing list as well as providing monthly summary reports that have been published on this site, the most recent of which are linked below: June 2018 May 2018 April 2018 Before

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  • Maintaining the Perl 5 Core (Dave Mitchell): Grant Report for June 2018 Thu, 05-Jul-2018 by Matthias Bloch

    This is a monthly report by Dave Mitchell on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. I spent the last month mainly working on: blocking issues for the 5.28.0 release. BBC tickets ASAN-related tickets SUMMARY: 2:22 RT #133204 Integer overflow leading to buffer overflow 15:29 RT #133270 Blead Breaks CPAN: HMBRAND/DBD-CSV-0.53.tgz 5:03 RT #133271 Blead Breaks

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  • Grant Extension Request: Maintaining the Perl 5 Core (Tony Cook) Fri, 08-Jun-2018 by Matthias Bloch

    Tony Cook has requested an extension of $20,000 for his Maintaining Perl 5 grant. This will allow him to dedicate another 400 hours to this work. During this grant he sent regular reports to the p5p mailing list as well as providing monthly summary reports that have been published on this site, the most recent of which are linked below: May 2018 April 2018 March 2018 Before

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  • Maintaining Perl 5 (Tony Cook): May 2018 Grant Report Tue, 05-Jun-2018 by Matthias Bloch

    This is a monthly report by Tony Cook on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. Approximately 34 tickets were reviewed. 8.10 #122112 re-work an old solution #122112 testing and fail, think about other solutions #122112 work up a fix, testing, work on a regression test #122112 finish regression test, testing, polish, comment with

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  • Maintaining the Perl 5 Core (Dave Mitchell): Grant Report for May 2018 Tue, 05-Jun-2018 by Matthias Bloch

    This is a monthly report by Dave Mitchell on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. SUMMARY: 5:00 RT #132863 BBC LWP-Protocol-https-6.07 0:30 RT #133169 pack treats non hex-digits with the "H*" template 1:30 RT #133184 Threaded builds failing on Linux 4.16.5 or higher 2:00 RT #133194: regcomp: heap-buffer-overflow read 3:00 RT #133220 perl_parse

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  • Maintaining the Perl 5 Core (Dave Mitchell): Grant Report for April 2018 Thu, 17-May-2018 by Matthias Bloch

    This is a monthly report by Dave Mitchell on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. I spent the last month mainly working on blocking issues for the 5.28.0 release. SUMMARY: 4:54 File::Copy test failure under quadmath 5:00 RT #132863 BBC LWP-Protocol-https-6.07 0:46 RT #132955 USE_CPLUSPLUS build broken in 5.27 blead and all 5.26 stables

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  • Maintaining Perl 5 (Tony Cook): April 2018 Grant Report Sat, 12-May-2018 by Matthias Bloch

    This is a monthly report by Tony Cook on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. Approximately 33 tickets were reviewed, and 6 patches were applied 1.09 #128627 try to reproduce, have basic problems with cygwin #128627 try to track down cygwin compiler issues 0.83 #131844 testing, push blead fix 0.40 #132876 re-test and apply

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  • Maintaining Perl 5 (Tony Cook): March 2018 Grant Report Tue, 01-May-2018 by Matthias Bloch

    This is a monthly report by Tony Cook on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. 3.25 #127743 fix MSVC debugging builds #127743 work on reducing Win32/gcc Storable warnings #127743 testing warning fixes 7.31 #130683 review the change and try to figure out what’s going wrong #130683 debugging #130683 debugging #130683

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  • Maintaining the Perl 5 Core (Dave Mitchell): Grant Report for March 2018 Wed, 04-Apr-2018 by Matthias Bloch

    This is a monthly report by Dave Mitchell on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. I spent the last month mainly doing two things: 1> fixing up Deparse.pm so that running the whole perl test suite through Deparse, i.e. ./TEST -deparse doesn't have any new failures. 2> going through the list of broken-in-blead top-1000 CPAN distributions to

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  • Maintaining Perl 5 (Tony Cook): February 2018 Grant Report Tue, 20-Mar-2018 by Matthias Bloch

    This is a monthly report by Tony Cook on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. Approximately 24 tickets were reviewed, and 6 patches were applied 2.60 #125351 testing, sidetracked into unrelated failure, have reproduction problems, back to original testing, apply to blead #125351 look at minor re-work of patch, which apparently I’d already

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  • Maintaining the Perl 5 Core (Dave Mitchell): Grant Report for February 2018 Tue, 06-Mar-2018 by Matthias Bloch

    This is a monthly report by Dave Mitchell on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. I have spent the last month mainly doing two things: Fixing various issues with overloading and the new multiconcat op. I decided that rather than continue adding more and more special-case handling to the existing code, I would handle the overloading in pp_multiconcat

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  • Maintaining the Perl 5 Core (zefram): Grant Report February 2018 Sun, 04-Mar-2018 by Matthias Bloch

    This is the report from zefram on his Perl 5 grant under the Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund for February 2018. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. The hours that I have worked in 2018-02 pursuant to my TPF core maintenance grant are as follows. 10h47m Blead Breaks CPAN: MAROS/DateTime-Format-CLDR-1.19.tar.gz 8h52m review mail 3h08m COW bug in :encoding layer 2h45m Blead

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