Maintaining Perl (Tony Cook) September 2026
Mon, 12-Oct-2026 by
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Tony writes:
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[Hours] [Activity]
2026/09/01 Tuesday
0.42 #24769 review, review discussion, research and approve
0.23 #24666 review updates and approve
0.20 #24764 review and approve
1.20 #24783 review, research, testing and comment
0.37 #24777 what else can I test here? undraft it
0.33 debugging build detection: make PR 24784
=====
2.75
2026/09/02 Wednesday
1.03 #24784 review discussion and comment
0.17 #24765 research, follow-up
0.15 #24787 review and approve
0.55 #24756 research and comment
0.77 security list follow-up
1.07 security list follow-up
=====
3.74
2026/09/03 Thursday
0.53 #24784 research, follow-up
1.30 security list follow-up
1.52 #24784 re-work
0.35 security list follow-up
=====
3.70
2026/09/07 Monday
0.85 #24784 re-work as suggested and modernise a bit
0.10 #24674 review updates and approve
0.22 #24756 comment
0.50 #24785 review, research and comment
1.08 #24791 review code and discussion, research and comment
0.60 #24794 review, research and comments
0.27 #24796 review and comment
0.53 #24797 review and comment
0.53 darwin asan sprintf deprecated warnings
=====
4.68
2026/09/08 Tuesday
3.80 security list follow-up
=====
3.80
2026/09/09 Wednesday
0.13 #23384 review latest post
0.43 #24187 review discussion, testing
2.22 security list follow-up
0.25 push some TSAN fixes for CI
0.33 #24799 review, research and comment
0.37 #24634 rebase PR
=====
3.73
2026/09/10 Thursday
0.13 make tsan fixes into PR 24803
1.43 security list follow-up
0.60 #24783 review, research and comments (including one on the
related metaconfig ticket)
0.62 #24803 fix a minor failure I missed in CI, testing
0.32 #24634 fix a perldelta issue
0.48 #23918 rebase, debugging
0.17 #24634 minor fix, testing, push
=====
3.75
2026/09/14 Monday
0.37 #24816 almost open a duplicate, research and comments,
look over probably breaking commit
0.33 #24783 review updates and comments
1.78 #24796 review, thinking, comments
0.78 #23867 review updates and approve
0.97 #24799 review
0.68 #24816 discussion in IRC, testing on cygwin
0.42 #24816 more debugging, discussion
=====
5.33
2026/09/15 Tuesday
0.23 look into Solaris build failures (from smoke reports),
work up a minor fix and push for smoke testing (CI doesn’t
do Solaris)
0.10 #24785 follow-up - ask for second opinion
0.38 #24799 review some more and approve
1.12 #24814 review, some comments
0.55 #24784 rebase, clean up commits, push for CI
=====
2.38
2026/09/16 Wednesday
2.43 #24814 comment, more review and comments
0.15 #24810 review, check build and approve
0.67 #24813 review, comments
1.05 #24811 research and comment
0.08 #24803 re-check and apply to blead
0.08 #24807 review and apply to blead (was already approved)
0.17 #24809 review and approve
0.20 #24798 review and approve
0.08 #24800 review and approve
=====
4.91
2026/09/17 Thursday
0.43 #24784 follow-up
0.08 #24777 apply to blead
0.33 #24814 resolve my confusion and comment
0.40 #24820 review and approve
0.93 #24829 review, research and comments
0.78 #24808 review and approve
0.45 #24824 review
0.33 #24717 research and comment
0.80 #24696 review
=====
4.53
2026/09/21 Monday
0.23 #24634 rebase, fix minor perldelta issue, testing, holding
off merge due to blead being broken
0.53 #24813 review updates and approve
0.27 #24844 investigate smoke results, comment
0.07 #24618 re-check and close
1.35 #24833 review, research, comment and approve
1.05 #24835 review, way too much research and comment
0.57 #24841 review, testing, research and approve
0.32 sv_set_undef to ppport: code, testing and push for CI
=====
4.39
2026/09/22 Tuesday
0.10 #24717 review and approve
0.78 #24784 rebase again (regen conflicts), push for CI
0.08 #24675 check CI results, apply to blead
0.08 #24848 review, research and approve
0.07 #24849 review and approve
0.13 #24851 review and approve
0.08 #24852 review and comment
0.08 #24853 review and approve
0.08 #24854 review and approve
0.62 sv_set_undef to ppport: check CI, find a general testing
issue with ppport, open #24855, open PR 24856 for the
sv_set_undef() change
0.80 time sv handling (BIG_TIME)
0.25 #24857 review and approve
0.63 #24843 review
=====
3.78
2026/09/23 Wednesday
1.37 #24856 add more tests, replace sv_set_undef() before
5.45.3 due to bug
0.48 #24796 review some more, debugging and comment
1.10 #24858 review, testing and comments
0.90 #24843 more review, comments
0.57 #24860 setup to try and test in CI, research
0.82 #24860 more dtrace testing
=====
5.24
2026/09/24 Thursday
0.60 #24824 review, research and comment
0.73 #24835 further comment
1.83 review match/case thread, posts to list
1.35 #24679 work up new dependency list, Makefile.SH edits and
testing, push for CI
=====
4.51
2026/09/28 Monday
0.28 #24855 research and comment
0.08 #24856 apply to blead
0.27 github notifications
0.88 #24796 review discussion and code, cry a bit and comment
0.25 #24860 review discussion and comment
0.35 #24858 review discussion and comment
0.67 #24679 find some issues, re-work and make PR 24869
1.57 #24722 review
=====
4.35
2026/09/29 Tuesday
1.42 #24856 look into a strict flag, add to TODO stack (works
but stricts on other issues), work on fix for this one,
push for CI
0.37 #24870 review, research and approve
0.18 #24864 review, research cause for change and approve
0.40 #24862 review and approve
0.70 #24825 review
1.02 #24825 testing, research, comment, more review
=====
4.09
2026/08/30 Sunday
0.25 github notifications
0.08 #24856 check fix CI results, apply to blead
0.73 #24871 research and comment, review and approve
0.83 #24873 review, research and comment
0.85 #24874 review, review discussion and comment
0.55 #24825 more review and comments
0.88 #24829 more review and comment
=====
4.17
Which I calculate is 73.83 hours.
Approximately 64 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 5 patches
were applied.
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Comments (1)
That's cool. Thank you for the enlightenment!
