Maintaining Perl 5 (Tony Cook): September 2020 Grant Report
Thu, 08-Oct-2020 by
Matthias Bloch
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Approximately 14 tickets were reviewed, and 1 patches were
applied
[Hours] [Activity]
2.00 #17601 rebase and re-test old branch
#17601 check smoke results and merge workaround
0.60 #17831 research hints bit usage and comment
54.17 #18005 resolve symbol issues, testing
#18005 research for a readlink implementation
#18005 work on readlink implementation
#18005 more readlink, debugging, get it working
#18005 testing
#18005 lstat/stat
#18005 more lstat
#18005 try to resolve a build issue, get -l working, run
the test suite, now have a bunch of behaviour to follow-up
on
#18005 debugging, research
#18005 debugging failing tests
#18005 debugging File::Find failure, try to make a temp
change to stat to return dev/ino info
#18005 more re-work stat and testing
#18005 more stat, deal with build issues
#18005 stat, still a build issue
#18005 debugging
#18005 find cause of build issue
#18005 fix build issue, debug some more test failures
#18005 debug more failing ext/ tests, looks like Win32
mapping layer issue? nope
#18005 more debugging, something strange happening with
File::Find
#18005 debugging, find why File::Find was complaining
about seeing the same dir twice, more debugging to do,
debug failing win32 specific tests (issue with stat _?)
#18005 more F::F debugging - is it a F::F bug?
#18005 more F::F debugging, buggy test, fix that and
testing
#18005 debug F::F taint.t, path issues that find.t
handles, “fix” that and start new test run
#18005 test mingw64, test blead for EU::PL2bat failure,
rebase and retest symlink branch
#18005 non-developer/admin mode testing
#18005 write some win32 specific tests, start to
restructure a bit to avoid all of the readlink behaviour
when testing for a symbolic link
#18005 finish re-org, test junctions aren’t treated like
symlinks, test stat on link and original match
#18005 more stat tests, debug some unexpected behaviour
(which was my test bug, doh), some cleanup, testing
#18005 non-threaded build testing, build failed, diagnose
(from a bad regen_config_h), testing
1.80 #18048 review, testing, apply to blead
0.65 #18120 review
3.77 #18123 debugging, work on a fix, testing (needs more
review)
#18123 review and check all the right paths handle the
flags correctly, write new tests, testing, push for CI
0.47 #18129 review discussion and jd’s proposed patch
0.65 #18134 thinking, comment
0.92 #18137 review, testing and comment
#18137 discussion with jkeenan
0.42 #18169 comment
3.86 mailing list catch up
mailing list catch up
mailing list catch up
mailing list catch up
mailing list catch up
0.65 more mailing list catch up, research
0.52 review github notifications, some simple responses
0.82 zoom meeting with sawyer
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71.30 hours total
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