Re: TONYC Grant Report November 2025

On Thu, Dec 4, 2025, at 5:49 PM, Tony Cook wrote:
> In addition to the typical stream of small changes to review, Dave's
> second AST rebuild of ExtUtils::ParseXS arrived (#23883), and I spent
> several hours reviewing it.
> 
> In response to #23918 I worked on adding numeric comparison APIs,
> which are complicated by overloading, NaNs, SVs dual IV/NV
> implmentation, and of course by overloading.  This includes some fixes
> for the existing sv_numeq() API.  You can see the current state of
> this work in #23966.
> 
> [Hours]         [Activity]
> 2025/11/03      Monday
> 0.37           #23886 review and approve
> 0.22           #23873 review other comments and follow-up
> 0.47           #23887 review, research and approve
> 1.72           #23890 review, testing
> 0.23           #23890 comment
> 0.08           #23891 review and approve
> 0.18           #23895 review and approve
> 0.67           #23896 review and comment
> =====
> 3.94
> 
> 2025/11/04      Tuesday
> 0.57           coverity scan results, testing, comment on #23871
> 1.15           #23885 review and comment
> 1.03           #23871 testing per wolfsage’s example, work on a
>                 regression test and fix, testing, push to PR 23897
> 1.67           #21877 debugging, fix my understanding on PerlIO and the
>                 code, testing
> =====
> 4.42
> 
> 2025/11/05      Wednesday
> 0.70           #23897 fix non-taint perl, testing and update PR
> 0.58           #23896 recheck
> 1.50           #23885 comment
> 0.57           #21877 look into remaining test failure, find the cause
>                 and workaround it
> =====
> 3.35
> 
> 2025/11/06      Thursday
> 0.08           #23902 review and approve
> 0.08           #23898 review and approve
> 0.55           #23899 review and approve
> 0.97           #23901 review and approve
> 0.95           #23883 review
> 1.40           #23883 review up to Node::include
> =====
> 4.03
> 
> 2025/11/10      Monday
> 1.60           #23795 review updates, comment
> 0.35           #23907 review, research and approve
> 1.07           #23908 review, research, comment (fixed while I worked)
> 0.63           #23883 continue review, comment
> =====
> 3.65
> 
> 2025/11/11      Tuesday
> 0.57           #23908 review updates and approve
> 0.40           #23911 review, review history of associated ticket and
>                 approve
> 0.85           #23883 more review
> 1.37           #23883 more review
> =====
> 3.19
> 
> 2025/11/12      Wednesday
> 0.73           #23913 review, research and approve
> 0.77           #23914 review, check for SvIsUV() usage on CPAN
> 0.83           #23910 testing, get some strange results
> 0.82           #23910 debugging, can’t reproduce in new builds
> 0.67           #23883 more review
> =====
> 3.82
> 
> 2025/11/13      Thursday
> 0.73           #23918 review discussion and research
> 0.75           #23917 review and approve
> 0.23           #23919 review and approve
> 1.03           #23883 more review
> 1.27           #23883 more review
> =====
> 4.01
> 
> 2025/11/17      Monday
> 1.13           testing, comments on new XS API list thread
> 0.97           #23923 review and approve
> 1.25           #23914 testing, comment, review
> 0.43           #23914 more review and approve
> 0.93           #23888 review, comments, some side discussion of 23921
> =====
> 4.71
> 
> 2025/11/18      Tuesday
> 0.50           #23888 review updates, testing,approve
> 0.27           #23943 review and approve
> 0.52           #23883 more review
> 1.27           #23883 more review
> =====
> 2.56
> 
> 2025/11/19      Wednesday
> 0.78           #23922 review and approve
> 1.08           #23918 work on new compare APIs
> 0.53           #23918 debugging
> 1.22           #23918 testing, cleanup
> 0.82           #23918 re-work documentation
> =====
> 4.43
> 
> 2025/11/20      Thursday
> 2.50           #23918 work on sv_numcmp(), research, test code, testing,
>                 debugging
> 1.07           #23918 work out an issue, more testing, document sv_numcmp
>                 variants
> =====
> 3.57
> 
> 2025/11/24      Monday
> 0.08           #23819 review and approve
> 2.77           #23918 NULL tests and fix, test for NV/IV mishandling and
>                 fix
> 0.82           #23918 open #23956, start on le lt ge gt implementation
> 1.20           #23918 finish implementation, test code, testing
> =====
> 4.87
> 
> 2025/11/25      Tuesday
> 0.67           #23885 review, comment
> 1.13           #23885 more review
> 1.03           #23918 some polish
> =====
> 2.83
> 
> 2025/11/26      Wednesday
> 0.07           #23960 review and approve
> 2.07           #23885 review, research and comments
> 0.48           #23918 more polish, testing
> 1.60           #23918 finish polish, push for CI
> =====
> 4.22
> 
> 2025/11/27      Thursday
> 0.58           #23918 check CI, add perldelta and push
> 0.58           check CI results and make PR 23966
> 0.48           comment on dist discussion on list
> =====
> 1.64
> 
> 2025/11/28      Friday
> 0.18           #23918 fix a minor issue
> =====
> 0.18
> 
> Which I calculate is 59.42 hours.
> 
> Approximately 32 tickets were reviewed or worked on.

https://news.perlfoundation.org/post/maintaining_perl_tonyc_november_2025

Thanks Tony, +1 from me!

-- Matthew Horsfall (alh)