Re: PEVANS Grant Report February 2026

On Mon, Mar 9, 2026, at 5:21 PM, Paul "LeoNerd" Evans wrote:
> Not too much activity of my own this month here, as I spent a lot of
> Perl time working on other things like magic-v2 or some CPAN module
> ecosystem like Future::IO. Plus I had a stage show to finish building
> props for and manage the running of.
> 
> But I did manage to do:
> 
>   3 = Continue work on attributes-v2 and write a provisional PR for
>       the first stage
>       https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/24171
> 
>   3 = Bugfix in class.c in threaded builds
>       https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/24150
>       https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/24171
> 
>   1 = More `foreach` lvref neatening
>       https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/24202
> 
>   3 = Various github code reviews
> 
> Total: 10 hours
> 
> Now that both attributes-v2 and magic-v2 are parked awaiting the start
> of the 5.45.x development cycle, most of my time until then will be
> spent on building up some more exciting features to launch those with,
> as well as continuing to focus on fixing any release-blocker bugs for
> 5.44.
> 
> -- 
> Paul "LeoNerd" Evans
> 
> [email protected]
> http://www.leonerd.org.uk/  |  https://metacpan.org/author/PEVANS

Thanks Paul,

+1 from me!

https://news.perlfoundation.org/post/pevans_core_dev_february_2026

-- Matthew Horsfall (alh)