Maintaining Perl 5: Grant Report for March 2016 
        
        
      
      
         
          Thu, 26-May-2016 by 
          Karen Pauley
        
        
        
          
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_Tony Cook writes:_
Approximately 48 tickets were reviewed, and 7 patches were applied
|Hours |        Activity |
|  1.57  |        investigate new ipsysv.t failures on darwin, create cpan |
|        |        #112827, fix in blead, #p5p unicode string behaviour |
|        |        discussion |
|  4.60  |        #122287 testing |
|        |        #122287 work on a patch to Configure/Makefile.SH |
|        |        #122287 more work, testing cross platform, comment with patch |
|        |        #122287 double check patch, expand comment on patch |
|  1.47  |        #124430 try to find why App::assh started working |
|        |        #124430 keep trying, start a bisect |
|  3.42  |        #125296 review, experiment and comment |
|        |        #125296 comment |
|  1.45  |        #125368 bisect and close |
|  3.30  |        #126162 apply patch manually, work on fixes |
|        |        #126162 more fixes, push to smoke-me and comment |
|  1.70  |        #126206 review ticket, try to work up a test case |
|        |        #126206 more try to work up a test case |
|  0.15  |        #126545 review discussion and tickets and comment |
|  0.32  |        #127080 review with aim to close, but unresolved issue, |
|        |        comment |
|  0.40  |        #127158 (sec) review discussion to see if anything needs |
|        |        to remain private (for now) |
|        |        #127158 make public |
|  7.15  |        #127231 ask List-MoreUtils maintainer for a fixed release |
|        |        #127231 partly track down to Params::Validate bug |
|        |        #127231 testing |
|        |        #127231 try to reproduce again |
|        |        #127231 open a PR against P::V and comment |
|        |        #127231 review autarch's suggested extra fix and comment on PR |
|  5.61  |        #127380 (sec) work on alternate patch |
|        |        #127380 (sec) more alternate patch work |
|        |        #127380 (sec) comment |
|        |        #127380 review discussion and comment |
|        |        #127380 comment, work on a patch |
|        |        #127380 reply to new comments, work on patch, comment with |
|        |        patch |
|        |        #127380 reply to new comments |
|  2.17  |        #127455 more debugging, work on hints to downgrade optimization |
|  4.03  |        #127494 testing, fix win32 jenkins failure |
|        |        #127494 testing, debugging, comment |
|  0.65  |        #127533 produce a simple patch and comment |
|        |        #127533 apply to blead |
| 1.50   |       #127543 review email from Alan Burlinson |
|        |        #127543 review, research and comment |
|        |        #127543 follow-up |
|  0.50  |        #127555 review, add to stack not refcounted ticket and |
|        |        briefly comment |
|  0.22  |        #127585 comment |
|  1.95  |        #127611 review and comment |
|        |        #127611 research and comment |
|        |        #127611 research and comment |
|  2.03  |        #127619 testing and comment |
|        |        #127619 review newest patches, testing, apply to blead |
|  1.21  |        #127635 review, produce an alternate patch |
|        |        #127635 re-test and apply alternate patch to blead |
|  0.43  |        #127636 review, test and apply to blead |
|  1.10  |        #127641 optimization, fix cmp_version.t failure |
|  1.32  |        #127657 build, try to figure out symbolizer |
|  3.48  |        #127663 review code, work on a patch |
|        |        #127663 more work on patch |
|  0.45  |        #127664 review patches, minor fixes, apply to blead |
|  0.53  |        #127687 research and comment |
|  6.75  |        #127708 research, discussion with khw on #p5p, comment |
|        |        #127708 testing, comments, extra patch, patch to add |
|        |        i_xlocale and d_duplocale probes |
|        |        #127708 try thread-safe locale code, seems to work, irc |
|        |        discussion |
|        |        #127708 review khw's new “locale and threads” message, |
|        |        research and reply |
|        |        #127708 note extra discussion in ticket, comment in extra |
|        |        discussion |
|        |        #127708 brief irc discussion |
|  0.18  |        #127712 comment |
|  0.43  |        #127713 testing, research and comment |
|  1.25  |        #127746 discussion with khw, testing, start bisect |
|  0.43  |        #127751 try a test build, seems to be strawberry perl |
|        |        specific, comment |
|  4.25  |        #127759 debugging |
|        |        #127759 debugging |
|        |        #127759 debugging |
|  7.48  |        #127760 work on debug code to debug via smoke |
|        |        #127760 more work on test patch, push to smoke-me |
|        |        #127760 review smoke log, add more debug code, local |
|        |        testing and debugging |
|        |        #127760 review smoke results, testing on Win7 and XP, look |
|        |        for Win2000 in old MSDN disks, ask George to run a simple |
|        |        test program |
|        |        #127760 comment |
|        |        #127760 testing, push a smoke-me with a skip for Win2k and |
|        |        earlier |
|  0.95  |        #127791 review, testing, apply to blead |
|  0.03  |        #127793 move to perl6 queue |
|  0.25  |        #127796 (sec) research and comment |
|  1.27  |        #127802 debugging and comment |
|  1.43  |        #127804 review, testing, start bisect |
|        |       #127804 fix bisect and finish, comment |
|  0.45  |        cygwin test failures |
|  1.30  |        fix bad code on non-clang in threads.xs |
|  0.05  |        khw's cygwin locale skip patch follow-up |
|  1.22  |        maint votes |
|  0.93  |        more alarm.t failures, check over history, try to |
|        |        reproduce without a VM (in a loop) |
|  1.90  |        more cygwin, get file.t passing, look into alarm.t |
|        |        failures |
|  1.97  |        more maint votes |
| 0.18   |       new Time::HiRes warning, try to search cpan for hrt_ualarm |
|        |        users |
|  2.27  |        track down jenkins Win32 issue, reproduce on Linux, track |
|        |        down to buffer overflow and fix, testing, notify list and |
|        |        Yves |
**87.68 hours total**
      
      
      
      
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