Maintaining Perl (Tony Cook) February 2026
Tue, 17-Mar-2026 by
alh
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Tony writes:
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[Hours] [Activity]
2026/02/02 Monday
0.08 #24122 review updates and comment
0.17 #24063 review updates and apply to blead
0.28 #24062 approve with comment and bonus comment
0.92 #24071 review updates and approve
0.40 #24080 review updates, research and comment
0.18 #24122 review updates and approve
0.27 #24157 look into it and original ticket, comment on
original ticket
0.58 #24134 review and comments
0.27 #24144 review and approve with comment
0.18 #24155 review and comment
0.48 #16865 debugging
0.90 #16865 debugging, start a bisect with a better test case
=====
4.71
2026/02/03 Tuesday
0.17 review steve’s suggested maint-votes and vote
0.17 #24155 review updates and approve
1.30 #24073 recheck, comments and apply to blead
0.87 #24082 more review, follow-ups
0.83 #24105 work on threads support
0.65 #24105 more work on threads, hash randomization support
=====
3.99
2026/02/04 Wednesday
0.13 github notifications
1.92 #24163 review, comments
0.48 #24105 rebase some more, fix tests, do a commit and push
for CI (needs more work)
1.70 #24105 more cleanup and push for CI
=====
4.23
2026/02/05 Thursday
0.20 github notifications
0.38 #24105 review CI results and fix some issues
1.75 #24082 research and comments
0.63 #24105 more CI results, update the various generated
config files and push for CI
0.17 #23561 review updates and comment
0.40 #24163 research and follow-up
0.58 #24098 review updates and comments
=====
4.11
2026/02/09 Monday
0.15 #24082 comment
0.20 #22040 comment
0.30 #24005 research, comment
0.33 #4106 rebase again and apply to blead
0.35 #24133 comment
0.35 #24168 review CI results and comment
0.25 #24098 comment
0.18 #24129 review updates and comment
0.92 #24160 review, comment, approve
0.17 #24136 review and briefly comment
0.78 #24179 review, comments
0.48 #16865 comment, try an approach
=====
4.46
2026/02/10 Tuesday
0.62 #24163 comment
0.23 #24082 research
0.20 #24082 more research
=====
1.05
2026/02/11 Wednesday
0.48 #24163 review updates and approve
0.73 #24129 review updates
0.45 #24098 research and follow-up comment
0.32 #24134 review updates and approve
0.17 #24080 review updates and approve
1.18 #22132 setup, testing and comments on ticket and upstream
llvm ticket
0.32 #23561 review update and approve
0.42 #24179 review some more and make a suggestion
1.03 #24187 review and comments
=====
5.10
2026/02/12 Thursday
0.43 #24136 research and comment
0.17 #24190 review and approve
0.90 #24182 review discussion and the change and approve
0.08 #24178 review and briefly comment
0.33 #24177 review, research and comment
0.08 #24187 brief follow-up
0.43 #24176 research, review and approve
0.27 #24191 research, testing
0.20 #24192 review and approve
0.38 #24056 debugging
0.58 #24056 debugging, something in find_lexical_cv()?
=====
3.85
2026/02/16 Monday
0.52 github notifications
0.08 #24178 review updates and approve
2.20 #24098 review and comments
0.88 #24056 more debugging, find at least one bug
0.92 #24056 work up tests, testing, commit message and push for
CI, perldelta and re-push
=====
4.60
2026/02/17 Tuesday
0.18 #24056 check CI results, rebase in case and re-push, open
PR 24205
2.88 #24187 review, comments
0.47 #24187 more comments
0.23 reply email from Jim Keenan re git handling for testing PR
tests without the fixes
=====
3.76
2026/02/18 Wednesday
3.02 #24187 review comments, work on fix for assertion,
testing, push for CI
0.25 #24187 check CI, make perldelta and make PR 24211
0.35 #24098 review updates and approve
=====
3.62
2026/02/19 Thursday
0.30 #24200 research and comment
0.47 #24215 review, wonder why cmp_version didn’t complain,
find out and approve
0.08 #24208 review and comment
0.73 #24213 review, everything that needs saying had been said
0.22 #24206 review and comments
0.53 #24203 review, comment and approve
0.33 #24210 review, research and approve with comment
0.37 #24200 review, research and approve
=====
3.03
2026/02/23 Monday
0.35 #24212 testing add #24213 to 5.42 votes
2.42 #24159 review and benchmarking, comment
0.73 #24187 try to break it
=====
3.50
2026/02/24 Tuesday
0.35 github notifications
1.13 #24187 update PR 24211 commit message, rechecks
0.43 #24001 re-work tests on PR 24060
0.30 #24001 more re-work
=====
2.21
2026/02/25 Wednesday
1.02 #24180 research, comments
0.22 #24206 review update and comment
0.28 #24208 review updates and comment
0.57 #24060 more tests
0.88 #24060 more tests, testing, debugging
=====
2.97
2026/02/26 Thursday
0.47 #24211 minor fixes per comments
0.23 #24206 review updates and approve
0.22 #24180 review updates and approve
0.98 #24236 review and comments
1.30 #24228 review, testing and comments
0.08 #24236 research and comment
0.78 #24159 review updates, testing, comments
=====
4.06
Which I calculate is 59.25 hours.
Approximately 50 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 3 patches
were applied.
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