Maintaining Perl 5: Grant Report for August 2016

Tony Cook writes:

Approximately 42 tickets were reviewed, and 6 patches were applied.

| Hours | Activity | | 0.93 | %zu on HP-UX issue | | 3.22 | #123981 updates, testing, comment | | 5.19 | #126482 debugging | | | #126482 bisect, review changes | | | #126482 more debugging, comment | | 12.51 | #127663 more tests, code review | | | #127663 re-work, testing |

| | #127663 delete on abort, testing | | | #127663 remove some later work, testing | | | #127663 polish, testing | | | #127663 review, push to smoke-me | | | #127663 code review, testing, setup for 128954 testing | | 0.60 | #127810 review discussion, brief comment | | 1.35 | #127834 (sec) review follow-ups to upstream patches | | 1.95 | #128095 upstream ticket #116819 with patch | | | #128095 produce alternative patch | | 2.87 | #128263 debugging, testing, work on fix | | | #128263 more work on fix, write tests, comment with patch | | 0.83 | #128574 testing, apply to blead | | 2.49 | #128598 review discussion, produce patch, testing and comment | | | #128598 review new discussion, comment | | 1.30 | #128685 try aristotle's code cross platform | | | #128685 more testing, apply to blead | | 0.58 | #128740 testing, research and comment | | 0.05 | #128767 reject | | 0.73 | #128775 testing, review changes, review cpan changes, comment | | 0.12 | #128829 (sec) , #128845 review discussion | | 1.30 | #128843 debugging, review S_hextract, research | | | #128843 more research, comment | | 0.30 | #128856 review and comment | | 0.55 | #128865 research and comment | | 0.08 | #128877 (sec) reject (CPAN upstream) | | 2.58 | #128930 review patch | | | #128930 testing, find it was applied and close | | | #128930 testing, apply to blead | | 1.55 | #128951 debugging | | 2.07 | #128953 review, attempt to apply, comment | | | #128953 manually apply rejected chunks, apply to blead | | 1.60 | #128954 review, prep for testing (or try) | | | #128954 porting tests, apply to blead | | 0.23 | #128972 review, research, comment | | 2.24 | #128988 (sec) diagnose, work on a fix, testing | | | #128988 (sec) comment with patch | | 0.22 | #128996 (sec) simplify test code, comment | | 1.35 | #128997 (sec) simplify, comments | | 3.50 | #128998 (sec) debugging, work up a fix and comment | | | #128998 (sec) try to work up a test some more, comment | | 0.30 | #129000 (sec) minify test case and comment | | 2.60 | #129012 (sec) check older versions, debugging | | | #129012 (sec) debugging, comment | | 1.52 | #129021 (sec) diagnose, make a fix, try to work up a test | | | #129021 (sec) work up a test, comment with patch | | 1.10 | #129024 (sec) reproduce with valgrind, reduce test case | | | and comment | | 0.63 | #129029 build library, reproduce, reduce -D flags, test | | | with valgrind, comment | | 0.43 | #129068 debugging | | 0.90 | #129069 comment | | | #129069 review new patch, testing, apply to blead | | 3.90 | #129085 (sec) reproduce, debugging | | | #129085 (sec) work on fix, testing, comment with patch | | | #129085 (sec) comment | | 0.88 | #129086 (sec) debugging, work up a fix | | 0.18 | #129117 (sec) comment and reject | | 0.83 | #129125 (sec) minify, diagnose and comment | | 0.97 |