Maintaining Perl (Tony Cook) June 2026
Sat, 18-Jul-2026 by
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Tony writes:
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[Hours] [Activity]
2026/06/01 Monday
3.15 security list #148
1.67 security list #148
=====
4.82
2026/06/02 Tuesday
0.87 atomic stuff on list
0.62 #24447 review discussion, ci results and comment
0.20 #24440 review
0.48 #24440 more review, simple testing and comment
1.17 #24451 review and comment
=====
3.34
2026/06/03 Wednesday
0.27 #24451 review updates
=====
0.27
2026/06/04 Thursday
1.05 #24451 more review, comments
0.15 #24304 comment
1.82 #24439 review, work on a fix for an issue this exposed,
push for CI
1.38 #24439 review
=====
4.40
2026/06/05 Friday
0.77 #24453 research and comment
1.35 #24439 more review
1.23 #24439 more review
=====
3.35
2026/06/08 Monday
1.33 #24451 review updates, testing and comments
1.18 #24439 more review, look into only apparently relevant
smoke-me failure and can’t reproduce, comment
0.15 #24454 review and approve
0.23 #24455 review, research and approve
0.50 #24459 review
1.18 #24459 more review, comments
0.50 #24418 debugging
=====
5.07
2026/06/09 Tuesday
0.43 #24451 av_splice - tied SPLICE returns more elements -
testing and comment
1.27 #24463 review, testing and approve
0.77 #24448 review, testing
0.97 #24448 more review, testing, comments
1.02 #24418 debugging
=====
4.46
2026/06/10 Wednesday
0.52 #24447 review updates and comment
2.52 #24418 debugging, work on a fix, test cases, testing, push
for CI
0.30 #24418 perldelta
=====
3.34
2026/06/11 Thursday
0.20 #24465 review and approve
1.40 :utf8 strict
1.02 :utf8 strict
=====
2.62
2026/06/12 Friday
2.13 Pauls AV API, emails
=====
2.13
2026/06/15 Monday
2.02 #24471 review, testing, research and comment
1.30 #24472 review OP and downstream patch, try to reproduce a
similar configuration on FreeBSD and succeed(ish - it
failed to build)
1.08 #24472 try to work up a fix
=====
4.40
2026/06/16 Tuesday
0.20 #24475 review, compare old workflow reports against PR
workflow run, approve
0.17 #24476 review, check old and PR workflow runs, approve
0.30 #24477 review, check old and PR workflow runs, comment and
approve
0.65 #24474 review, research and approve
0.37 #24473 review and comment
0.63 #24472 Configure detection of quadmath fpclassify
1.13 #24472 more Configure, work on the actual code
=====
3.45
2026/06/17 Wednesday
0.25 #24473 review and approve
0.92 #24478 review and comment
1.75 #24459 review, testing and comments
1.15 #24472 re-work Configure a bit, work on failing POSIX
build on freebsd, testing
=====
4.07
2026/06/18 Thursday
0.45 #24471 review updates and discussion
1.77 #24459 review discussion, research and comment, check for
a possible TARG leak and it’s not an issue.
0.12 #24482 check CI results and restart (failed due to
infrastructure)
0.40 #24483 comment (after looking back at the relevant IRC
discussion, no ticket?)
0.13 #24485 comment
0.68 #24484 review and comments
1.73 #24472 try to fix failures (one is
../lib/ExtUtils/t/Embed.t)
=====
5.28
2026/06/22 Monday
0.83 #24484 review updates and approve
0.12 #24483 review update and approve
0.43 #8309 research and follow-up
0.08 #24478 review updates and approve
0.32 #24447 review updates, start CI and check for build
warnings, approve
0.38 #24105 review update and research
0.08 #24459 follow-up
1.27 #24472 debug build issue
0.72 #24472 more debug build issue
=====
4.23
2026/06/23 Tuesday
0.92 #24497 review
1.40 5.44 RC testing - win x86_32, freebsd x86_64, macos arm,
cygwin, win x86_64
1.00 fix macos readdir_r warning - reproduce, fix, testing,
push for CI
0.47 fix macos is_codeset_name_UTF8 warning, explore a sea of
macro definitions
=====
3.79
2026/06/24 Wednesday
0.47 fix macos is_codeset_name_UTF8, more macro decoding, make
PR for readdir_r change
1.65 #24495 review, research and comments
0.58 #24489 review and comments
0.57 #24493 review, research and comment
0.22 macos uselongdouble noise, arm64 doesn’t really have ldbl
0.83 win32 run/todo.t noise - better way to get DEBUGGING?
=====
4.32
2026/06/25 Thursday
1.20 #24472 build a quadmath win32 perl, research
1.82 #24472 beat head against the mingw build wall, testing,
more research and comment
=====
3.02
2026/06/26 Friday
1.47 #24502 review, testing
=====
1.47
2026/06/29 Monday
0.68 #24447 follow-up
0.12 #24504 review
0.40 #24503 review
1.42 #24502 more review and testing, comment
0.67 #24513 review, research and comments
0.12 #24505 review and approve
1.20 #24508 review, comments
=====
4.61
2026/06/30 Tuesday
0.33 #24508 follow-up
0.13 #24513 review updates and comment
1.03 #23918 comment in associate Algorithm::Heapify::XS ticket
and open a related Algorithm::Heapify::XS ticket
0.92 #24502 more review, comment
0.70 #24518 review and comment with test code
1.12 #23918 look at adding sv_numcmp etc to ppport
=====
4.23
Which I calculate is 76.67 hours.
Approximately 40 tickets were reviewed or worked on.
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