Maintaining Perl 5 (Tony Cook): October 2020 Grant Report
Thu, 05-Nov-2020 by
Matthias Bloch
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Approximately 34 tickets were reviewed, and 2 patches were
applied
[Hours] [Activity]
0.20 #16525 test and comment
0.98 notifications catch up, including #17290
40.03 #18005 polish
#18005 add some more tests, work on commit messages
#18005 minor re-work, some debugging, start a test run
#18005 more polish, work on commit messages
#18005 prep (including test-prep) for upstream patch, work
on commit messages
#18005 fix some un-updated config values and the problems
encountered fixing that, clean up commits, (final?) test
runs
#18005 track down mingw failures (it’s using msvcrt.dll,
sigh)
#18005 re-work stat to avoid the broken msvcrt stat
#18005 more work on stat(), discussion with xenu who was
also working on it
#18005 testing, debug and fix failing to close a handle,
more stat tests for our implementation, start a MSVC test
run, tests didn’t start
#18005 re-work stat a bit, testing, start on utime() (to
match stat)
#18005 work utime, testing, minor fix, more testing
#18005 research on leap seconds for time conversion,
review changes and cleanup
#18005 leap second discussion with xenu, re-work time_t <>
FILETIME conversion to hopefully support leap seconds
correctly (though we don’t enable leap seconds for
perl.exe, XS or the registry might enable them), start
make test runs
#18005 commit time re-work, steal xenu’s verson check for
unprivileged symlink creation, remove
${^WIN32_SLOPPY_STAT}, start test run
#18005 treat junctions as symlinks for lstat and readlink,
perlport updates, push to smoke-me
#18005 re-work the regen_config_h target, after some mis-
steps get the VC config working
#18005 update other makefiles, testing, cleanup, push for
CI
#18005 review smoke results, make some fixes and start
test run
#18005 fix some more problems, more testing, push to check
for more smoke
#18005 ask George Greer to trigger a smoke for the pushed
smoke-me
#18005 try to diagnose win10 smoke failures
#18005 more diag and fixes, push for another smoke run
#18005 review latest smokes
#18005 commit clean up, start a test run
1.52 #18133 rebase, add tests, documentation updates, testing
and push to update PR
0.17 #18150 review and apply to blead
0.12 #18169 briefly comment
0.60 #18182 testing, briefly comment
#18182 review
2.07 #18198 review and comment
#18198 re-check, research and comment
0.22 #18205 briefly comment
0.07 #18210 review
0.30 #18212 review
0.98 #18221 review, discussion with toddr
0.03 #18231 review and apply to blead
0.43 #18232 review, comment briefly
1.46 #18256 research and comment
review notifications, mostly #18256
1.53 #18257 review code and move the dead code, test builds,
make a bad build fail at compile time, push for CI
#18257 review CI results, make PR 18266
0.27 check notifications
0.95 clean up tc function changes, update the associated dfly
bug, push for smoke testing
1.03 cop memory usage: research
1.05 got the account, open dfly 3250, work on another
0.28 list catch up
0.60 more dragonfly testing, diagnosis, waiting for bug
reporting account before making PR
0.42 notifications follow up
0.52 notifications follow-up
1.63 report another dlfy bug
1.07 review coverity scan results
0.68 review Jason’s perldocpolicy and briefly comment
1.41 review notifications
review notifications
review notifications
review notifications
0.78 review perl-gov discussion
2.73 track down locale smoke failures, try to reproduce
0.30 try to reduce cop memory usage (not for each cop, but
overall)
2.67 try to reproduce dragonfly bsd smoke failures, fixes, try
to report upstream, research on terminal control failures
1.68 work on last bug, work on TODOS etc, testing
1.83 work out causes for locale smoke failure, work on a test
and a fix, testing, push for smoke-me
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70.61 hours total
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