Maintaining Perl 5: Grant Report for Month 6
Sat, 15-Feb-2014 by
Karen Pauley
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_Tony Cook writes_
Approximately 45 tickets were worked on, and 13 patches were applied.
I finally found the cause of and fixed ["perl #118817":https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=118817] this month, thanks to more detailed environment information from the poster, and a Fedora Rawhide VM. This was originally reported in July 2013 as a problem with the debugger when TERM=vt100, but I wasn't able to reproduce it. I turned out to be a case of the debugger tests overwriting their own output - the prompts and other non-trace information being overwritten by the trace and vica-versa.
["perl #121077":https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121077] This was an interesting patch by Matthew Horsfall that optimizes @my $x; my $y;@ to @my ($x, $y)@, after which an existing optimization then consumes any following uninitialized, void-context my variables to produce a padrange operator, instead of several individual pad[sha]v operators.
| Hours | Activity |
|3.45 | #116971 reproduce and work on a fix |
| | #116971 fix manifest.t failure, make pending-author.t work |
| | on Win32, test cross platform, push and comment |
| 5.47 | #118817 start rawhide install (rawhide boot.iso failed to start installer) |
| | #118817 start upgrade of fedora 20 to rawhide, which |
| | fails, try with 20 installer but rawhide source |
| | #118817 test, diagnose and comment |
| | #118817 fix tests, push a smoke-me and comment asking OP to test fix |
| | #118817 apply to blead, comment twice |
|8.06 | #118843 write fix, tests (along with maint testing) |
| | #118843 finish writing tests, push to smoke-me, comment |
| | #118843 fix issues and push to smoke-me |
| | #118843 fix line-endings, test on win32, fix two race conditions |
| | and push a new smoke-me |
| | #118843 apply to blead, perldelta and close |
| 0.48 | #119973 review change and vote |
| 3.23 | #120670 reproduce, retest patch, track down cygwin C++ build error |
| | #120670 fix authors.t failure, supply patch to Devel- PPPort upstream |
| | #120670 provide patch against github repo 0.52 |
| | #120758 review behaviour, code, an external strtold implementation |
| 3.78 | #120827 review, try to work out a test, apply and comment |
| | #120827 review for maint, comment |
| | #120827 test, perldelta updates, push, perldelta blead too |
|1.30 | #120832 make btrfs fs to reproduce, fix and push, install dzil to send |
| | pull request to app-find2perl 0.25 |
| | #120857 review and discuss with bulk88 |
| 0.33 | #120872 review and find already applied |
|1.92 | #120925 review, test 32-bit USE_64_BIT_INT build with SDK tools |
| | #120925 research and comment |
| | #120925 discuss with bulk88 |
| 3.49 | #120933 build win32 perl and work out dependency issues, comment |
| | #120933 produce a patch and request the OP test it |
| | #120933 test with dmake, apply to blead and comment |
| 0.12 | #120936 comment |
| 0.57 | #120938 review, test and apply |
| 1.42 | #120939 review and test |
| | #120939 comment |
| | #120939 comment |
| 1.25 | #120951 reproduce |
| | #120951 handle signal delivered to non-perl thread |
| 0.78 | #120954 review original text, discussion and comment |
| 0.62 | #120971 review, test, apply |
| 1.78 | #120977 review and comment |
| | #120977 comment |
| | #120977 review and test new patch, apply to blead |
| 0.89 | #120981 review and test |
| | #120981 apply, perldelta and comment |
| 0.10 | #120991 comment |
| 3.91 | #120998 try to reproduce (and succeed) |
| | #120998 debugging |
| 0.65 | #121010 review, test, fix manifest, version and apply to blead |
| 5.12 | #121028 test patch, produce new patch and comment |
| | #121028 make closepid not block, debug openpid blocking, |
| | post patch, comment |
| | #121028 research, experimentation with openpid.t |
| | #121028 make list form, test on Win32 and research, comment |
| 0.35 | #121029 review and comment - USE_64_BIT_INT for VC 6 |
| 1.87 | #121031 review and reject, discuss on IRC, produce |
| | alternate patch and check for similar issues and fix those too |
| 0.10 | #121033 comment |
| 1.63 | #121038 review and try to understand context handling |
| | #121038 more research, comment |
| 4.05 | #121039 review comments, experiment, research, comment |
| | #121039 ticket against Escape-Houdini, fixes to |
| | Devel::Peek::SvREFCNT |
| 1.52 | #121042 review and research original discussion/bug |
| | #121042 testing and comment |
| 3.43 | #121077 review and comment - optimize my $x; my $y to my |
| | ($x, $y) |
| | #121077 review follow-up comments, review code and comment |
| | #121077 retest, apply to blead, perldelta |
| 0.22 | #121095 (security list) review |
| 0.93 | #121101 review and apply |
| | #121101 apply changed wording patch |
| 0.90 | #121104 review POSIX, prepare a patch and comment |
| | #121104 apply patch, pull request to github app-find2perl |
| 3.28 | #121106 investigate and comment |
| | #121106 testing, discussion with khw |
| 0.50 | #121119 review, discuss in IRC |
| 1.48 | #40565 research, comment |
| 7.06 | #77672 research as to why _pipe handles are failing, testing |
| | #77672 more research, figure out bug, testing |
| | #77672 testing, produce patch and comment |
| | #77672 review and clean up patch, start test run |
| | #77672 unblock blocked tests and retest those tests, fix a |
| | pre-processor directive bug, push to smoke-me |
| 6.28 | #81074 test code |
| | #81074 testing |
| | #81074 fix build issues, watch test fail |
| | #81074 debugging, write more tests |
| 0.85 | #89502 rebase, add perlport note, test_porting, rebase |
| | some more and apply to blead |
| 0.20 | close some Data::Dumper tickets with comments |
| 0.92 | p5p catch-up |
| 1.22 | p5p list catch up |
| 0.52 | review cross-compile-revamp branch |
| 0.35 | run sample on Win32 for khw |
**87.15 hours total**
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