TPF Grant May 2010 report

As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the May period.
 
I continued working my way through the list of tie bugs,
and also spent quite a bit of time on a tie/overload bug, and finished
fixing a regexp performance/leak bug.

Over the first 12 weeks I have now averaged about 18 hours per week,
slightly less than the nominal 20.

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Report for period 2010/05/01 to 2010/05/31 inclusive

SUMMARY
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    Effort (HH::MM):

        5:00 diagnosing bugs
       85:10 fixing bugs
        0:00 reviewing other people's bug fixes
        0:00 reviewing ticket histories
        2:40 review the ticket queue (triage)
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       92:50 TOTAL

    Numbers of tickets closed:

           9 tickets closed that have been worked on
           2 tickets closed related to bugs that have been fixed
           0 tickets closed that were reviewed but not worked on (triage)
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          11 TOTAL


SHORT DETAIL
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 2:30 [perl #7938] local @tied_array broken
 0:50 [perl #22571] tied SPLICE unshift(@x, shift(@x)) doesn't work
 3:35 [perl #34604] Incorrect behaviour of overloaded class instances in tied hashes
 1:20 [perl #41216] m//g is infinite loop when applied to tied array element
 0:15 [perl #41384] caller() from tied hashes
 5:10 [perl #43789] "in memory" files don't call STORE method when tied
48:25 [perl #57012] Result of FETCH not checked for overload?
 5:10 [perl #72144] [PATCH] Deref ops ignore get-magic when SvROK(sv)
19:05 [perl #74484] Regex causing exponential runtime+mem usage
 3:50 [perl #75146] 27e904532594b7fb (fix for #23810) introduces a regression
 2:40 [TRIAGE]

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