Maintaining Perl 5: Grant Report for March 2016

Tony Cook writes:

Approximately 48 tickets were reviewed, and 7 patches were applied

|Hours | Activity | | 1.57 | investigate new ipsysv.t failures on darwin, create cpan | | | #112827, fix in blead, #p5p unicode string behaviour | | | discussion | | 4.60 | #122287 testing | | | #122287 work on a patch to Configure/Makefile.SH | | | #122287 more work, testing cross platform, comment with patch | | | #122287 double check patch, expand comment on patch | | 1.47 | #124430 try to find why App::assh started working | | | #124430 keep trying, start a bisect | | 3.42 | #125296 review, experiment and comment | | | #125296 comment | | 1.45 | #125368 bisect and close | | 3.30 | #126162 apply patch manually, work on fixes | | | #126162 more fixes, push to smoke-me and comment |

| 1.70 | #126206 review ticket, try to work up a test case | | | #126206 more try to work up a test case | | 0.15 | #126545 review discussion and tickets and comment | | 0.32 | #127080 review with aim to close, but unresolved issue, | | | comment | | 0.40 | #127158 (sec) review discussion to see if anything needs | | | to remain private (for now) | | | #127158 make public | | 7.15 | #127231 ask List-MoreUtils maintainer for a fixed release | | | #127231 partly track down to Params::Validate bug | | | #127231 testing | | | #127231 try to reproduce again | | | #127231 open a PR against P::V and comment | | | #127231 review autarch's suggested extra fix and comment on PR | | 5.61 | #127380 (sec) work on alternate patch | | | #127380 (sec) more alternate patch work | | | #127380 (sec) comment | | | #127380 review discussion and comment | | | #127380 comment, work on a patch | | | #127380 reply to new comments, work on patch, comment with | | | patch | | | #127380 reply to new comments | | 2.17 | #127455 more debugging, work on hints to downgrade optimization | | 4.03 | #127494 testing, fix win32 jenkins failure | | | #127494 testing, debugging, comment | | 0.65 | #127533 produce a simple patch and comment | | | #127533 apply to blead | | 1.50 | #127543 review email from Alan Burlinson | | | #127543 review, research and comment | | | #127543 follow-up | | 0.50 | #127555 review, add to stack not refcounted ticket and | | | briefly comment | | 0.22 | #127585 comment | | 1.95 | #127611 review and comment | | | #127611 research and comment | | | #127611 research and comment | | 2.03 | #127619 testing and comment | | | #127619 review newest patches, testing, apply to blead | | 1.21 | #127635 review, produce an alternate patch | | | #127635 re-test and apply alternate patch to blead | | 0.43 | #127636 review, test and apply to blead | | 1.10 | #127641 optimization, fix cmp_version.t failure | | 1.32 | #127657 build, try to figure out symbolizer | | 3.48 | #127663 review code, work on a patch | | | #127663 more work on patch | | 0.45 | #127664 review patches, minor fixes, apply to blead | | 0.53 | #127687 research and comment | | 6.75 | #127708 research, discussion with khw on #p5p, comment | | | #127708 testing, comments, extra patch, patch to add | | | i_xlocale and d_duplocale probes | | | #127708