Maintaining Perl (Tony Cook) January 2026
Sat, 07-Feb-2026 by
alh
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Tony writes:
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[Hours] [Activity]
2026/01/05 Monday
0.23 #24055 review, research and approve with comment
0.08 #24054 review and approve
0.12 #24052 review and comment
1.13 #24044 review, research and approve with comment
0.37 #24043 review and approve
0.78 #23918 rebase, testing, push and mark ready for review
1.58 #24001 fix related call_sv() issue, testing
0.65 #24001 testing, debugging
=====
4.94
2026/01/06 Tuesday
0.90 #24034 review and comment
1.12 #24024 research and follow-up
1.40 #24001 debug crash in init_debugger() and work up a fix,
testing
0.08 #24001 re-check, push for CI
=====
3.50
2026/01/07 Wednesday
0.15 #24034 review updates and approve
0.55 #23641 review and comment
0.23 #23961 review and approve
0.28 #23988 review and approve with comment
0.62 #24001 check CI results and open PR 24060
0.50 #24059 review and comments
0.82 #24024 work on a test and the fix, testing
0.27 #24024 add perldelta, testing, make PR 24061
1.13 #24040 work on a test and a fix, testing, investigate
other possible similar problems
=====
4.55
2026/01/08 Thursday
0.35 #24024 minor fixes, comment, get approval, apply to blead
0.72 #24040 rebase, perldelta, find a simplification, testing
and re-push
0.18 #24053 review and approve
0.77 #24063 review, research, testing and comment
1.47 #24040 look at goto too, look for other similar issues and
open 24064, fix for goto (PVOP), testing and push for CI
0.32 #24040 check CI results, make PR 24065
0.28 #24050 review and comment
=====
4.09
2026/01/09 Friday
0.20 #24059 review updates and comment
=====
0.20
2026/01/12 Monday
0.32 #24059 review updates and approve
0.35 #24066 review and approve
0.22 #24040 rebase and clean up whitespace, apply to blead
1.00 #23966 rebase, testing (expected issues from the #23885
merge but I guess I got the magic docs right)
1.05 #24062 review up to ‘ParseXS: tidy up INCLUDE error
messages’
0.25 #24069 review and comment
0.62 #24071 part review and comment
=====
3.81
2026/01/13 Tuesday
1.70 #24070 research and comment
0.23 #24069 review and comment
0.42 #24071 more review
1.02 #24071 more review, comments
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3.37
2026/01/14 Wednesday
0.23 #23918 minor fix
0.18 #24069 review updates and approve
0.32 #24077 review and comments
0.53 #24073 review, research and comment
0.87 #24075 review, research and comment
0.45 #24071 benchmarking and comment
1.47 #24019 debugging, brief comment on work so far
=====
4.05
2026/01/15 Thursday
0.37 #24019 debugging and comment on cause of win32 issues
1.02 #24077 review, follow-up
0.08 #24079 review and approve
0.25 #24076 review and approve
0.73 #24062 more review up to ‘ParseXS: refactor: don't set $_
in Param::parse()’
2.03 #24062 more review to ‘ParseXS: refactor: 001-basic.t: add
TODO flag’ and comments
=====
4.48
2026/01/19 Monday
1.12 maint-votes, vote apply/testing one of the commits
0.43 github notifications
0.08 #24079 review updates and comment
0.70 #24075 research and approve
0.57 #24063 research, try to break it, comment
1.43 #24062 more review to ‘ParseXS: add basic tests for
PREINIT keyword’
=====
4.33
2026/01/20 Tuesday
2.23 #24078 review, testing, comments
0.85 #24098 review, research and comment
1.00 #24062 more review up to ‘ParseXS: 001-basic.t: add more
ellipsis tests’
=====
4.08
2026/01/21 Wednesday
0.82 #23995 research and follow-up
0.25 #22125 follow-up
0.23 #24056 research, comment
0.67 #24103 review, research and approve
1.45 #24062 more review to end, comment
=====
3.42
2026/01/22 Thursday
0.10 #24079 review update and approve
0.08 #24106 review and approve
0.10 #24096 review and approve
0.08 #24094 review and approve
0.82 #24080 review, research and comments
0.08 #24081 review and approve
0.75 #24082 review, testing, comment
1.15 #23918 rebase #23966, testing and apply to blead, start on
string APIs
=====
3.16
2026/01/27 Tuesday
0.35 #23956 fix perldelta issues
1.27 #22125 remove debugging detritus, research and comment
1.57 #24080 debugging into SvOOK and PVIO
0.67 #24080 more debugging, comment
0.25 #24120 review and approve
1.03 #23984 review, research and approve
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5.14
2026/01/28 Wednesday
0.37 #24080 follow-up
0.10 #24128 review and apply to blead
0.70 #24105 review, look at changes needed
0.15 #23956 check CI results and apply to blead
0.10 #22125 check CI results and apply to blead
0.13 #4106 rebase PR 23262 and testing
0.53 #24001 rebase PR 24060 and testing
0.57 #24129 review and comments
0.28 #24127 review and approve
0.10 #24124 review and approve
0.20 #24123 review and approve with comment
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3.23
2026/01/29 Thursday
0.27 #23262 minor change suggested by xenu, testing, push for
CI
0.22 #24060 comment
1.63 #24082 review, testing, comments
0.43 #24130 review, check some side issues, approve
0.12 #24077 review updates and approve
0.08 #24121 review and approve
0.08 #24122 review and comment
0.30 #24119 review and approve
=====
3.13
Which I calculate is 59.48 hours.
Approximately 57 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 6 patches
were applied.
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