Maintaining Perl 5: Grant Report for April 2016
Tony has supplied the second report for his "Maintaining Perl 5":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2013/05/grant-application-maintaining.html grant, which was recently successfully "extended":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2016/02/maintaining-perl-5---grant-ext-1.html.
Tony Cook writes:
Approximately 40 tickets were reviewed, and 3 patches were applied.
| Hours | Activity | | 1.66 | #121734 report cygwin issue upstream | | | #121734 test upstream fix and comment | | | #121734 comment on POSIX::strxfrm() bug note | | 0.27 | #122551 review discussion, TR::Perl bugs | | 2.23 | #126188 debugging, try potential fixes, comment | | 0.92 | #126203 reproduce, comment and supply a trivial patch | | 2.64 | #127380 (sec) work on patches, comments | | | #127380 find and post missing patch | | 11.21 | #127663 research |
| | #127663 research | | | #127663 research, work on fix | | | #127663 more work on fix | | | #127663 more work on fix, mail craigb asking about VMS behaviour | | | #127663 more work, research, work on path handling | | 0.93 | #127708 irc discussion, testing | | 9.30 | #127743 review, testing | | | #127743 debugging, simple fix, start on complex fix | | | #127743 code, tests, debugging | | | #127743 testing, fixes, comment with patches | | | #127743 look over change in cperl | | 3.06 | #127759 debugging | | | #127759 debugging | | 1.03 | #127760 testing, update Maintainers.pl, customized,dat and | | | apply to blead | | 0.67 | #127780 testing, produce and patch and comment | | | #127780 fix patch and comment | | 6.35 | #127799 testing, debugging, brief comment, further debugging | | | #127799 try a 32-bit build, code review, comment | | | #127799 test Dave's fix | | 1.13 | #127805 research, fix a doc typo | | 1.79 | #127810 comment | | | #127810 review patch, comment on security ticket, more review | | | #127810 review latest discussion | | 0.87 | #127829 testing, comment | | 0.87 | #127834 (sec) ticket merging, review discussion, comment | | 0.82 | #127875 research, comment | | 0.57 | #127880 review, testing | | 0.32 | #127882 adjust commit message, re-test and apply to blead | | 0.70 | #127885 review patches and comment | | 3.10 | RC-1 testing, open #127894 and work on a fix, open #127895 | | | #127894 review alternate approach, testing, apply to blead | | 2.77 | #127895 debugging, try freebsd 9.3, comment | | 0.47 | #127922 research and comment | | 2.18 | #127923 review, testing, porting fixes, push to smoke-me, | | | comment | | 0.17 | #127936 testing, fix typo | | 0.78 | #127953 testing, comment | | 0.52 | #127970 (sec) comment | | 0.58 | #127981 test to see if recursion overflowing thread stack | | 0.12 | #127991 review and comment | | 1.38 | investigate darwin g++ failures, work on patch, testing | | 2.57 | investigate new cygwin failure, push a fix | | 0.08 | ipc-cmd start another run | | 1.35 | ipc-cmd win32 testing, test test script, start first run | | 0.20 | ipc-cmd: review first result, start second | | 2.05 | more win32 IPC-Cmd testing | | 1.43 | post-5.24 patches | | 0.05 | review test results and push to blead | | 0.45 | rjbs' github notices: test, provide a patch | | 1.12 | win32 jenkins errors, looks like stuck process, notify | | | Seveas and list | |