Maintaining Perl (Tony Cook) April 2024
Mon, 24-Jun-2024 by
alh
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Tony writes:
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[Hours] [Activity]
2024/04/02 Tuesday
0.30 #22115 review and approve
0.75 #22114 review, research (and it be a compile-time
constant, hard to tell)
0.40 #22113 review, research, comments
=====
1.45
2024/04/03 Wednesday
0.67 #22110 review and approve
1.20 #22116 review, testing, coverage testing and comment
0.32 #22081 review latest changes and approve
0.33 #22113 review updates and approve
0.68 #21877 debugging. find an issue and push for CI
1.88 #21550 testing, failed build with -Dstatic_ext=re, work on
fix
=====
5.08
2024/04/04 Thursday
1.10 #22116 review changes, testing, approve
1.28 #22119 review, testing, comments
0.12 #21877 rebase to fix cygwin issue
1.07 #21550 more testing, push for CI
0.72 #21877 clean up, start a cygwin build to check against the
original problem
0.15 #21877 performance tests, make PR 22120
=====
4.44
2024/04/08 Monday
0.23 #21877 bump XS::APItest version, testing
0.77 #22122 review, try to understand it
0.88 #22121 testing, debugging, long comment
0.43 look into build warnings: HEK_FLAGS array subscript
warning
0.68 fix HEK_FLAGS() warning, fix NULL in %s warning, push
202404-warning-cleanup for CI
1.97 perlhacktips: profiler documentation, other tools
=====
4.96
2024/04/09 Tuesday
0.08 build warnings: check CI and make PR 22128
0.12 perlhacktips: some clean up, push for CI
1.47 #16607 work on making hwm checks DEBUGGING independent
1.12 #16607 testing, push for CI
=====
2.79
2024/04/10 Wednesday
0.13 #16607 check CI results, make #22131
0.55 #22093 testing, review changes, approve
1.00 #21877 try to track down cause of the leak the cow check
prevents
0.90 #21877 add some sv_setsv_cow() documentation
0.33 #16607 comment
1.70 #21724 work on a fix, testing, push for CI
=====
4.61
2024/04/11 Thursday
0.43 #21724 resolve CI failure
0.93 #22133 review discussion, testing
0.65 look into Configure noise, work up a change and push for
CI
0.10 #21724 review new CI results and make PR 22134
0.65 #22132 review discussion, look over freebsd ports,
research amdfam10 clang issues (didn’t find anything
relevant)
0.30 #22132 and related p5p message, comments
0.08 configure noise: check CI results, open PR 22135
0.43 #12783 testing, appeared to be fixed, mark closable?
0.48 #12782 review, research and mark closable?
0.47 #12744 review discussion and close
0.60 #12717 transfer tickets linked to this meta ticket across
=====
5.12
2024/04/15 Monday
0.43 github notifications
0.47 #22131 re-check and apply to blead
1.00 #22142 long comment
0.23 #22129 recheck and apply to blead
0.08 #22128 briefly comment, apply to blead
0.88 #22132 setup to reproduce and reproduce
2.82 #22132 debugging, research, comment
=====
5.91
2024/04/16 Tuesday
1.08 #22145 work on a fix, push for CI
0.67 #22132 debugging
1.70 #22132 debugging, try to make a simple reproducer
0.12 #22146 review CI results and make PR 22146
=====
3.57
2024/04/17 Wednesday
0.15 #22142 recheck and apply to blead
1.18 #22132 get a simple reproducer, open llvm/llvm-
projetct#89008
1.13 look into more build warnings
0.98 hints noise on NetBSD from list, research, testing, fix,
make PR 22152
0.92 perldelta updates, push for CI
=====
4.36
2024/04/18 Thursday
0.08 perldelta updates: check CI, open PR 22153
0.98 look into build warnings some more, fix the other one and
push for CI
1.30 c++ header testing - find a C++ compiler
3.03 c++ header testing - more find a C++ compiler, testing,
next steps...?
=====
5.39
2024/04/19 Friday
0.35 #22154 follow-up
0.78 #21611 research, long comment
=====
1.13
2024/04/22 Monday
2.43 #22160 test this (with much Windows messing about)
=====
2.43
2024/04/23 Tuesday
2.08 #22159 work up a fix, testing, fix the fix, push to PR
22166
3.10 #22159 diag test fix, maybe do the clean up instead of
crash
=====
5.18
2024/04/24 Wednesday
1.22 #22159 apply various PRs, perldelta, comment, open #22169
1.17 look into blead smoke failures, looking smoke failure
reported in #22125
1.25 #22125 testing, comment, try some fixes, comment again
1.70 more smokes: dfly bsd failures, cannot reproduce, ask for
info, look at win32 failures, can’t reproduce so far
=====
5.34
2024/04/25 Thursday
0.67 more smokes, open metaconfig #89
0.37 #22170 research and comment
0.42 #22171 review and approve
1.02 #22121 try changing to UNOP_AUX
=====
2.48
2024/04/29 Monday
2.50 dfly bsd failures: setup and try to reproduce on UFS, try
to reproduce locale test failures, and reproduce, work out
the issue and open PR 22183
1.32 #22125 why does perl itself build, but not the embed_test,
testing, long-ish comment
=====
3.82
2024/04/30 Tuesday
0.08 #22183 it’s approved, minor, platform specific and fixes a
serious problem, apply to blead
0.90 #22125 research and comment
0.68 #22182 review and approve
0.15 #22173 review and comment
0.38 #22104 check if version bump fixed this, looks like it
did, prepare revert commit for CI and push for CI
0.52 #22121 more unop_aux
=====
2.71
Which I calculate is 70.77 hours.
Approximately 38 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 6 patches
were applied.
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