Maintaining Perl 5 (Tony Cook): December 2020 Grant Report

This is a monthly report by Tony Cook on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible.

Approximately 16 tickets were reviewed, and 4 patches were
applied

[Hours]         [Activity]
  2.62          #1420 debugging, research
                #1420 research and comment, some work on a fix
  5.55          #17094 write up an approach
                #17094 research, more write up
                #17094 more editing, post
                #17094 follow-up
  0.27          #17673 review and close
  2.03          #17724 testing, add regression test, apply to blead and
                close PR
  0.57          #17906 rebase, testing and apply to blead
 10.28          #18005 hopefully final rebase and test for merge,
                reconsider PathTools PerlLIO_symlink/readlink, research
                #18005 add symlink/readlink aliases, look into
                Devel::PPPort for new PerlLIO_* functions, don’t think
                it’s needed, apply to blead
                #18005 follow up: issue management, perldelta, add tests
                for other possibly fixed issues (some were fixed, others
                weren’t)
                #18005 more testing, debug #7410 and comment
                #18005 finish up and apply new regression tests to blead,
                more work on perldelta
                #18005 more ticket management, finish perldelta and apply
                to blead
  0.55          #18341 discussion with khw
  0.23          #18365 comment
  6.18          #18380 debugging
                #18380 more debugging, long comment
                #18380 think about a fix, work on a KISS fix for the
                immediate problem, testing
                #18380 more testing.make PR 18390, comment on more
                complete solutions
  2.00          #18388 research, testing, briefly comment
                #18388 review discussion, research
  3.85          #18396 review, track down issue with RW mutexes
                #18396 irc discussion with khw, work on a PR with test and
                fix, back to review
                #18396 follow-up
  2.15          #18402 review and research
                #18402 more research and comment
  0.12          #18403 review and apply to blead
  0.80          review github notifications
                review github notifications
  0.33          review khw’s alternate patch for the PERL_MEM_LOG
                deadlock/potential getenv() corruption
  0.58          review khw’s khw-safe branch, research
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 38.11 hours total
Category: Perl 5 Development

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