Re: TONYC Grant Report February 2026

On Thu, Mar 5, 2026, at 6:28 PM, Tony Cook wrote:
> [Hours]         [Activity]
> 2026/02/02      Monday
> 0.08           #24122 review updates and comment
> 0.17           #24063 review updates and apply to blead
> 0.28           #24062 approve with comment and bonus comment
> 0.92           #24071 review updates and approve
> 0.40           #24080 review updates, research and comment
> 0.18           #24122 review updates and approve
> 0.27           #24157 look into it and original ticket, comment on
>                 original ticket
> 0.58           #24134 review and comments
> 0.27           #24144 review and approve with comment
> 0.18           #24155 review and comment
> 0.48           #16865 debugging
> 0.90           #16865 debugging, start a bisect with a better test case
> =====
> 4.71
> 
> 2026/02/03      Tuesday
> 0.17           review steve’s suggested maint-votes and vote
> 0.17           #24155 review updates and approve
> 1.30           #24073 recheck, comments and apply to blead
> 0.87           #24082 more review, follow-ups
> 0.83           #24105 work on threads support
> 0.65           #24105 more work on threads, hash randomization support
> =====
> 3.99
> 
> 2026/02/04      Wednesday
> 0.13           github notifications
> 1.92           #24163 review, comments
> 0.48           #24105 rebase some more, fix tests, do a commit and push
>                 for CI (needs more work)
> 1.70           #24105 more cleanup and push for CI
> =====
> 4.23
> 
> 2026/02/05      Thursday
> 0.20           github notifications
> 0.38           #24105 review CI results and fix some issues
> 1.75           #24082 research and comments
> 0.63           #24105 more CI results, update the various generated
>                 config files and push for CI
> 0.17           #23561 review updates and comment
> 0.40           #24163 research and follow-up
> 0.58           #24098 review updates and comments
> =====
> 4.11
> 
> 2026/02/09      Monday
> 0.15           #24082 comment
> 0.20           #22040 comment
> 0.30           #24005 research, comment
> 0.33           #4106 rebase again and apply to blead
> 0.35           #24133  comment
> 0.35           #24168 review CI results and comment
> 0.25           #24098 comment
> 0.18           #24129 review updates and comment
> 0.92           #24160 review, comment, approve
> 0.17           #24136 review and briefly comment
> 0.78           #24179 review, comments
> 0.48           #16865 comment, try an approach
> =====
> 4.46
> 
> 2026/02/10      Tuesday
> 0.62           #24163 comment
> 0.23           #24082 research
> 0.20           #24082 more research
> =====
> 1.05
> 
> 2026/02/11      Wednesday
> 0.48           #24163 review updates and approve
> 0.73           #24129 review updates
> 0.45           #24098 research and follow-up comment
> 0.32           #24134 review updates and approve
> 0.17           #24080 review updates and approve
> 1.18           #22132 setup, testing and comments on ticket and upstream
>                 llvm ticket
> 0.32           #23561 review update and approve
> 0.42           #24179 review some more and make a suggestion
> 1.03           #24187 review and comments
> =====
> 5.10
> 
> 2026/02/12      Thursday
> 0.43           #24136 research and comment
> 0.17           #24190 review and approve
> 0.90           #24182 review discussion and the change and approve
> 0.08           #24178 review and briefly comment
> 0.33           #24177 review, research and comment
> 0.08           #24187 brief follow-up
> 0.43           #24176 research, review and approve
> 0.27           #24191 research, testing
> 0.20           #24192 review and approve
> 0.38           #24056 debugging
> 0.58           #24056 debugging, something in find_lexical_cv()?
> =====
> 3.85
> 
> 2026/02/16      Monday
> 0.52           github notifications
> 0.08           #24178 review updates and approve
> 2.20           #24098 review and comments
> 0.88           #24056 more debugging, find at least one bug
> 0.92           #24056 work up tests, testing, commit message and push for
>                 CI, perldelta and re-push
> =====
> 4.60
> 
> 2026/02/17      Tuesday
> 0.18           #24056 check CI results, rebase in case and re-push, open
>                 PR 24205
> 2.88           #24187 review, comments
> 0.47           #24187 more comments
> 0.23           reply email from Jim Keenan re git handling for testing PR
>                 tests without the fixes
> =====
> 3.76
> 
> 2026/02/18      Wednesday
> 3.02           #24187 review comments, work on fix for assertion,
>                 testing, push for CI
> 0.25           #24187 check CI, make perldelta and make PR 24211
> 0.35           #24098 review updates and approve
> =====
> 3.62
> 
> 2026/02/19      Thursday
> 0.30           #24200 research and comment
> 0.47           #24215 review, wonder why cmp_version didn’t complain,
>                 find out and approve
> 0.08           #24208 review and comment
> 0.73           #24213 review, everything that needs saying had been said
> 0.22           #24206 review and comments
> 0.53           #24203 review, comment and approve
> 0.33           #24210 review, research and approve with comment
> 0.37           #24200 review, research and approve
> =====
> 3.03
> 
> 2026/02/23      Monday
> 0.35           #24212 testing add #24213 to 5.42 votes
> 2.42           #24159 review and benchmarking, comment
> 0.73           #24187 try to break it
> =====
> 3.50
> 
> 2026/02/24      Tuesday
> 0.35           github notifications
> 1.13           #24187 update PR 24211 commit message, rechecks
> 0.43           #24001 re-work tests on PR 24060
> 0.30           #24001 more re-work
> =====
> 2.21
> 
> 2026/02/25      Wednesday
> 1.02           #24180 research, comments
> 0.22           #24206 review update and comment
> 0.28           #24208 review updates and comment
> 0.57           #24060 more tests
> 0.88           #24060 more tests, testing, debugging
> =====
> 2.97
> 
> 2026/02/26      Thursday
> 0.47           #24211 minor fixes per comments
> 0.23           #24206 review updates and approve
> 0.22           #24180 review updates and approve
> 0.98           #24236 review and comments
> 1.30           #24228 review, testing and comments
> 0.08           #24236 research and comment
> 0.78           #24159 review updates, testing, comments
> =====
> 4.06
> 
> Which I calculate is 59.25 hours.
> 
> Approximately 50 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 3 patches
> were applied.

Thanks Tony, +1 from me!

https://news.perlfoundation.org/post/maintaining_perl_tonyc_february_2026

-- Matthew Horsfall (alh)