Maintaining Perl 5 (Tony Cook): September 2019 Grant Report
Wed, 20-Nov-2019 by
Matthias Bloch
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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.
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Approximately 35 tickets were reviewed, and 8 patches were
applied
[Hours] [Activity]
4.56 #125557 review toke.c, work up a test case and comment
#125557 try to work up a test case, work on a fix, testing
#125557 review test run results, comment with patch
#125557 re-test and apply to blead
2.15 #132782 review, testing and apply to blead
1.45 #133822 re-work into a deprecation
1.25 #133840 (sec) perlsecpolicy, the ressurection, review,
edits
4.30 #133981 try to re-work to fix issues, bounce off broken
windows
#133981 re-work, testing, write up commit message, apply
to blead
#133981 testing, fix dumb mistake (side trip into 134406)
#133981 re-test, apply to blead
2.11 #134212 diagnose and comment with patch
#134212 comment
0.98 #134233 (along with some discussion with khw on 134439)
review and apply to blead
0.79 #134237 review, turn into a PR against the metaconfig repo
#134237 check change is in blead and close with comment
1.15 #134250 review, testing, review code
#134250 comment with simple patch
0.58 #134253 review and review original discussion
1.20 #134325 investigate performance of space allocation in
S_change_engine_size()
0.52 #134329 discussion with khw
1.61 #134390 reproduce, valgrind, work up a fix and comment
with patch
#134390 apply to blead, propose for maint backports
1.60 #134398 review, testing, apply to blead
0.43 #134406 update commit message and comment with patch
0.70 #134412 testing, comment
0.05 #134424 briefly comment
0.67 #134432 review, research, apply to blead, make PR against
metaconfig
0.47 #134434 review and ask reporter to report upstream
5.32 #134439 review, work on a test case
#134439 more work on a test case, ask OP for more
information
#134439 research, comment, more work on test case
1.48 #134445 review, run into unrelated issues build testing
1.92 #134447 test on multiple MSVCs, apply to blead
0.80 #134459 review
1.47 more polish, write up a bug report (and wait for a
response)
1.78 more testing, polish
0.40 review LeoNerd’s stacks write up, briefly comment
2.00 rewrite perlglob, testing
1.32 security list discussion, research and comment
2.25 try to track down some failing porting tests (also, some
test files get deleted, somewhere), looks like perlglob
misbehaving
4.71 utf8-readline: more re-work
utf8-readline: more re-work
utf8-readline: more re-work
2.62 utf8-readline: more re-work, debugging,use perl’s own utf-
8 decoding
2.00 utf8-readline: rebase fixes, start re-work to use internal
APIs rather than yet another UTF-8 decoder
2.05 utf8-readline: rebase, some re-work
1.27 utf8-readline: start re-work
0.68 utf8-readline: test for seek issue and fix it, ebcdic fix
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58.64 hours total
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