Maintaining Perl (Tony Cook) May 2026
Sat, 06-Jun-2026 by
alh
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Tony writes:
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[Hours] [Activity]
2026/05/04 Monday
1.12 Dave’s C11 _Atomic on p5p: testing, research and respond
0.35 #24402 research and comment
0.38 more _Atomic - research and respond some more
1.23 #24284 read, research and comment, work up a patch and
push for CI
0.23 selfloader: check CI results and make PR 24404
0.68 more _Atomic: research and respond to leont
0.28 #24166 review discussion, research
0.95 #24166 work up a test case debugging
=====
5.22
2026/05/05 Tuesday
0.15 #24284 minor fix
0.08 selfloader: apply to blead as suggested by PSC
0.65 #24406 review, find old problems that have already been
reported.
0.52 das
0.55 #24166 work on a fix
1.05 #24166 more work on a fix - re-work
=====
3.00
2026/05/06 Wednesday
1.68 #24407 testing, research, comments, work on a revert patch
and push for smoke-me/CI
1.98 #24407 follow-up, work on a possible fix, push for
smoke/CI and ask jkeenan to test
0.63 #24407 clean up, and add checks, testing and push to
update smoke-me
=====
4.29
2026/05/07 Thursday
1.72 #24407 check smoke results, test the new fix branch
elsewhere, open PRs #24409 (try to fix some more), #24410
(revert)
0.98 #24166 try to work out a fix
0.30 smoke-me branch cleanup
=====
3.00
2026/05/11 Monday
0.53 #24413 review and comment
0.20 #24414 review, xenu covered it
0.83 #24416 review and comment
0.55 #24410 follow-up
1.58 security list - testing, debugging, research and reply
0.50 #24416 follow-up
1.05 utf8-strict rebase, re-check, start on line reading
=====
5.24
2026/05/12 Tuesday
0.08 #24413 review update and approve
0.47 investigate detect conflicts failures and work up PR 24419
1.02 selfloader mixed io - rebase on blead updates, testing,
push for CI/smoke-me
0.68 macos readdir, research, setup environment
2.03 security list
=====
4.28
2026/05/13 Wednesday
0.55 research and work up a trivial patch for the vs2026
related build failures PR 24421
1.53 security list - stuff
=====
2.08
2026/05/14 Thursday
0.90 #24412 review, comment
0.47 #24420 review and approve
0.17 #24423 review and approve
1.30 security list
0.88 security list
=====
3.72
2026/05/15 Friday
0.50 security list
=====
0.50
2026/05/18 Monday
2.58 security list
1.75 security list
=====
4.33
2026/05/19 Tuesday
0.10 #24421 apply to blead on PSC approval
0.08 #24419 comment
0.08 security list
1.33 security list
=====
1.59
2026/05/20 Wednesday
0.38 perl-security #147: perldelta, make PR 24433
=====
0.38
2026/05/21 Thursday
0.08 #24433 apply to blead
1.30 #24434 review, research and comment
0.18 #24431 review, research history and comment
0.08 #24438 review and approve
0.25 #24437 review and approve
0.70 security list - sec 148
2.50 security list - debugging
=====
5.09
2026/05/22 Friday
0.20 #24433 follow-up on security ticket
0.42 #24434 review and comment
0.12 #24431 review and approve
1.17 security list sec 148
=====
1.91
2026/05/25 Monday
1.40 #24439 look into MacOS and Cygwin lockups (cygwin still
running)
1.88 security list, more #24439 follow-up, security stuff re-
work
1.27 security list - re-work, testing
=====
4.55
2026/05/26 Tuesday
2.07 security list - debugging, fixes, debugging
1.98 security list - more debugging, fix some issues
=====
4.05
2026/05/27 Wednesday
1.58 security list sec 148
0.85 security list
2.22 security list
=====
4.65
Which I calculate is 57.88 hours.
Approximately 21 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 2 patches
were applied.
```
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Comments (4)
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