Maintaining Perl (Tony Cook) August 2026
Sun, 13-Sep-2026 by
alh
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Tony writes:
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[Hours] [Activity]
2026/08/03 Monday
0.43 #24557 review some more and comments
0.60 #24643 review and comments
0.17 #24629 review and approve
0.18 #24628 review and approve
0.88 #22659 try to review, comments
0.97 #24651 review, testing and comment
0.18 #24651 review updates and approve
0.87 #24616 work on a fix (had an epiphany), testing, push for
CI
0.50 investigate possible dXSTARG/constant folding issue
=====
4.78
2026/08/04 Tuesday
0.28 #24643 follow-up
1.07 #24451 test a theory, comment, same issue in core
splice(), open #24659
0.78 more dXSTARG/pp_reftype (might be a sv_set_undef() bug,
work up tests and a fix, push for CI
0.33 #24616 check CI results, perldelta and make PR #24660
0.67 sv_set_undef() issue - check CI results and work out
failures, testing
0.65 sv_set_undef(), check CI issues, re-work a bit, make PR
#24661
0.48 #24594 review and approve
=====
4.26
2026/08/05 Wednesday
0.08 #24616 apply to blead
0.08 #24661 rebase and apply to blead
0.23 #23847 comment
1.57 #24448 review updates, comments
1.00 #24187 review updates, try to figure out the behaviour,
start a comment
0.50 #24187 work out what’s going on, finish off comment
started above
0.12 #24663 review and approve
0.10 #24664 review and approve
0.23 #24648 review and approve
0.15 #24650 review, research and comment
=====
4.06
2026/08/06 Thursday
0.35 #23847 review updates and comment
0.27 #24448 review updates, comment and approve
0.77 #24471 review discussion, research and comment
1.72 #24105 refresh review, research, comments
0.85 #24634 work on tests, fix, testing, push for CI
=====
3.96
2026/08/10 Monday
1.90 #24672 review, some testing, approve
0.47 #24666 review, research, briefly comment
0.92 #24662 review, research and comment
0.35 #24634 check CI results, perldelta and make PR 24675
0.77 #24659 work up tests, review splice code, av_store() magic
handling to try to work up a fix
=====
4.41
2026/08/11 Tuesday
0.28 #24679 review, research, comment
0.38 #24634 re-work test comment
0.87 #24593 research, comment on a lot of macro names
0.60 #24677 review and comments
0.38 #23506 think about to test this
0.95 #24659 work up a fix, testing, consider exception safety
=====
3.46
2026/08/12 Wednesday
0.63 #24679 related private email
0.25 #24593 research (including bouncing off some metacpan
503s), comment
0.58 #24690 review and approve, comment
0.08 #24677 follow-up comment
0.10 #24679 follow-up
0.23 #24632 follow-up
0.17 #24688 review and briefly comment
1.37 #24659 make it more exception safe, fixes, some re-work,
push for CI
=====
3.41
2026/08/13 Thursday
0.40 #24695 review, re-run failed CI jobs, and approve
0.43 #24697 review and approve
0.12 #24681 review, and merge due to LGTM from other committer
0.88 #24691 review. try to make the issue fixed crash without -
Dpv, approve with comment
0.68 #24680 review, testing and approve
1.10 #24659 look into CI failures, and re-run, perldelta, open
PR 24702
=====
3.61
2026/08/17 Monday
1.30 #24674 review and comments
0.68 #24686 review, check original ticket, research, comment on
original ticket
0.08 #24659 minor perldelta edit
0.33 #24704 review, research, and approve with comment
0.12 #24708 review, research and approve
0.30 #24710 review, research
=====
2.81
2026/08/18 Tuesday
0.38 #24710 testing, some debugging and approve
0.57 #24714 review, research and approve
1.20 #24717 review, performance testing and comment
2.10 #24722 review, comments
=====
4.25
2026/08/19 Wednesday
0.22 #24724 review and approve
0.35 #24725 review, research and approve with comment
0.27 #24728 review, research and approve
0.68 #21750 research, comment
1.15 #23369 review, comment
1.87 #23369 more review, testing, find some issues, some style
comments
=====
4.54
2026/08/20 Thursday
0.50 #24732 review and comment
1.53 ppport some max constants, update Changes, testing and
push for CI
0.38 #24396 review and approve
1.83 #16869 debugging, testing
=====
4.24
2026/08/24 Monday
0.22 #24708 research and comment
0.78 #24666 testing, report bug upstream
0.63 #24674 review and comments
0.10 #24733 apply to blead
0.60 #24738 review and comment
0.08 #24748 review and approve
0.07 #24749 review and approve
0.47 #24751 review, research and comment
0.08 #24752 review and approve
0.28 #24747 review and comment
0.12 #24674 follow-up
0.35 #24751 review updates and approve
0.18 #24282 review and approve
0.90 #23506 work up a test for overloads
=====
4.86
2026/08/25 Tuesday
0.12 #24738 review update and approve
0.62 #24674 try to think of an alternative name and comment
0.37 #24747 review updates and approve
0.93 #23369 more review and comments
0.08 #24750 review and approve
0.58 #24753 review and approve with comment
0.32 #24754 review and approve
=====
3.02
2026/08/26 Wednesday
0.98 #23369 review updates and approve
0.70 #24508 review updates and comment
0.53 #24666 review updates, research and comment
1.45 #24726 review, testing, work on updating test machine
0.23 #24756 review and comment
=====
3.89
2026/08/27 Thursday
0.17 #24451 review updates
0.60 RNG discussion IRC
0.45 #24659 make suggested test change, testing, push for CI
0.45 #24304 re-check
1.52 #24726 try to setup to test this, no success
0.10 #24659 review CI results and apply to blead
0.63 #23506 testing and comment
1.05 debugging build detection - implementation, test updates
and testing, push for CI
=====
4.97
2026/08/31 Monday
0.30 #24666 review update and comment
0.08 #24691 review discussion and give the double approval
0.08 #24508 review discussion and approve
0.18 #24717 research
0.20 #24767 comment: no need to PR for CI
0.40 #24765 review, research, restart one ASAN job, comments
0.18 #24768 review and approve
0.22 #24769 review, research and comment
0.05 #24771 review and approve
1.60 #24775 review, and review discussion, comment, open
alternate PR 24777
0.53 debugging build detection: (also some 24777 discussion in
IRC)
0.08 #24776 review and approve
1.30 debugging build detection: work up a fix, testing, push
for CI
=====
5.20
Which I calculate is 69.73 hours.
Approximately 74 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 4 patches
were applied.
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