Maintaining Perl (Tony Cook) October 2026
Tue, 10-Nov-2026 by
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Tony writes:
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[Hours] [Activity]
2026/10/01 Thursday
0.42 github notifications
0.10 #24829 research and follow-up
0.75 #24874 review and comment, consider follow-up
0.33 #24873 review and approve
0.08 #24825 review updates and approve
0.15 #24187 testing
1.35 #24722 review and comment
1.33 #24722 more review, comments
=====
4.51
2026/10/05 Monday
0.13 github notifications
0.08 #24886 review and approve
0.13 #24899 review and approve
0.12 #24901 review, research and comment
0.27 #24902 review and approve
0.48 #24896 review and comment
0.58 #24885 review discussion, research and comment
1.02 #24531 review
=====
2.81
2026/10/06 Tuesday
0.10 #24901 review updates and approve
1.57 #24891 more review, testing, comment
0.62 #24893 review, research, testing and comment
0.60 #24722 review
0.40 time_t handling
=====
3.29
2026/10/07 Wednesday
0.12 #24896 look over reorg (already merged)
0.08 #24910 review and apply to blead (had two other approvals)
0.78 #24829 review, research and follow-up
2.53 #24860 review discussion and recent related commits, setup
a test, testing, research and comment, research the
invalid addresses and test a solution, more testing and
comment
1.02 #24860 work up a cleaner fix, irc discussion leading to
issue #24913, work up a cleaner fix, testing and open PR
24914, comment back on issue
=====
4.53
2026/10/08 Thursday
2.57 #24913 work up a test, work on fix (including a second
related issue), testing, perldelta, push for CI
1.05 #24918 review and comments
0.33 #24914 review discussion here and on ticket, and comment
on ticket
0.08 #24885 review and approve
0.27 #24920 review and approve
=====
4.30
2026/10/09 Friday
0.18 #24860 testing, and comment
=====
0.18
2026/10/12 Monday
0.12 github notifications
1.30 #24867 review and approve
0.47 #24917 review, learn about sync-with-cpan and approve
0.37 #24938 review failure, test code, and comment
0.40 #24939 review failure, research, work on a fix and make PR
24939
0.47 mjd’s File::Spec perlbug to list: testing and reply
0.43 #24938 work on a patch, testing, and make PR 24953
=====
3.56
2026/10/13 Tuesday
0.15 #24954 research and comment
0.20 #24938 rebase on blead, comment
0.75 #24869 read discussion, work an alternative change, push
for CI, poke at github who disabled workflows
1.45 #24860 review discussion, testing
1.48 #24860 setup to test on old mac, testing and comment
=====
4.03
2026/10/14 Wednesday
0.08 #24959 comment
0.70 #24860 review discussion, comment
0.33 #24960 review and approve
0.47 #24963 review and approve
1.35 time_t handling
1.13 utf8 magic testing: work on test function in XS::APItest,
and tests for it, and work on addiition to test from
#24891, push for CI (branch utf8-magic-testing)
=====
4.06
2026/10/15 Thursday
1.20 #24965 review, research and comments
0.40 #24936 review, comment (needs more)
0.55 utf8 magic testing: fix issues, push and make PR 24966
1.12 work on freebsd obsolete renameat skip, research, changes,
testing and push to smoke-me for smoke testing
0.72 silly long double format string, silly disabling
USE_LONG_DOUBLE when NV is long double, testing, push for
CI
=====
3.99
2026/10/19 Monday
0.22 github notifications
2.65 #24970 testing, research
0.80 #24970 research, comment
0.40 freebsd obsolete renameat skip: fix bug, testing, push for
smoke-me
=====
4.07
2026/10/20 Tuesday
0.40 #16154 review suggested change and the code and comment
0.88 #24977 testing and comments
0.82 freebsd obsolete renameat: check smoke results, local
testing
0.08 #24981 review and approve
=====
2.18
2026/10/21 Wednesday
0.25 freebsd obsolete renameat: work on perldelta and push,
make PR 24986
0.72 silly long double format string: perldelta and push for CI
0.47 #24977 review discussion, testing
0.85 workflow updates: macos 14 retirement, ubuntu-latest
changes, research and updates and push for CI
0.10 silly long double format string: check CI and make PR
24987
0.25 check workflow updates CI and open PR 24988
0.72 #24978 review, research, testing and comment
0.28 #24980 review, research and comment
0.13 #24982 review, research and approve
0.22 #24938 update PR as suggested by leont, testing, bump
version, rebase and push
0.28 #24984 review, research CPAN usage and approve
0.88 #24985 look over CI results (one test flaky?), test
locally, start reviewing
=====
5.15
2026/10/22 Thursday
0.82 security list
1.90 #24985 more review, comments
0.45 security list
0.33 #24991 review and approve
0.20 #24990 review and approve
=====
3.70
2026/10/23 Friday
0.82 security list
=====
0.82
2026/10/26 Monday
0.48 github notifications
0.08 #24986 comment
0.37 #24965 review and approve
1.40 #21750 review, try to understand the re symbol conflict
0.32 #24987 go to apply it and find a grammar error, updates
and push
0.27 #24992 review and comment
=====
2.92
2026/10/27 Tuesday
0.17 #24686 comment and approve
0.52 #24860 research and comment
0.10 #24994 review and briefly comment
0.17 #24998 review and approve
0.08 #25001 review and approve
2.38 #25002 review
0.37 #25002 more review
1.22 #25002 review and comments
=====
5.01
2026/10/28 Wednesday
0.18 #24985 review updates and approve
0.28 #24994 more review and comment
0.87 #25003 look for more given mis-info and updates, run into
test_testlists misbehaviour, make PR 25012
0.08 #24996 restart failed CI jobs
0.32 #25009 review and comment
0.72 #25010 review, research and comments
0.30 #25011 review
0.73 #24997 work on performance regression
0.73 #24997 look for other performance helpers, testing
=====
4.21
2026/10/29 Thursday
0.10 #25010 review update which wasn’t and comment
0.22 #25016 review and comment
0.33 #24994 review updates and comment
1.37 #25014 review, research and comment
0.40 #25019 review, research and comment
1.18 #24997 more optimisation attempts, code review
1.07 #24997 make a full patch, testing, push for CI, comment
0.08 #25016 review update and approve
0.38 #24997 perldelta and make PR 25021
=====
5.13
Which I calculate is 68.45 hours.
Approximately 61 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 2 patches
were applied.
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