TONYC Grant Report April 2026

[email protected] (Tony Cook) Fri, 8 May 2026 09:49:10 +1000
Newsgroups perl.perl5.porters
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[Hours]         [Activity]
2026/04/01      Wednesday
 0.08           #24335 follow-up
 1.18           #24337 try to review
 2.03           #24005 work on docs
 0.30           #24251 comments
 0.12           #24134 re-check and trivial comment
 1.35           #24005 more docs
=====
 5.06

2026/04/02      Thursday
 0.53           ppc/discussion/84 research and comment
 0.82           #24308 read updates, try to find clarity with a correction
 0.57           #24105 follow-up on #24294
 0.58           #24304 review updates
 0.75           #24105 research and comment
 0.78           #24005 more docs (detailing $^P flags)
=====
 4.03

2026/04/07      Tuesday
 1.73           #23676 re-work PR, testing, push to update/CI
 0.30           #24308 review updates and comment
 0.33           #13626 research and comment
 0.08           #24281 review update and approve
 0.52           #17077 research and comment
 0.52           #23995 research, testing and comment
=====
 3.48

2026/04/08      Wednesday
 0.08           #24308 review discussion and approve
 0.37           #23995 research and testing, comment
 1.98           #24005 more docs
 1.52           #24005 more docs
=====
 3.95

2026/04/09      Thursday
 0.43           #24349 review and comment
 1.22           #24105 review, research
 1.53           #24005 more docs, testing
 1.38           #24005 more docs, testing
=====
 4.56

2026/04/13      Monday
 0.30           github notifications
 0.25           #24187 review discussion
 0.17           #24349 review and briefly comment
 0.65           #24361 review, research and comments
 0.42           #24362 review, research and comment
 0.20           #23660 comment
 1.13           #24005 add more sample code
 0.73           #24005 checking
=====
 3.85

2026/04/14      Tuesday
 0.63           #24361 review updates, research and comment
 0.08           #24335 base issue now a blocker, re-request review for
                updates
 0.25           #24349 review updates and approve
 0.98           #24337 review, note decision to revert, look into the
                still failing issues
 0.22           #24366 review, research and approve
 0.43           #24364 review, comment and approve
=====
 2.59

2026/04/15      Wednesday
 0.23           github notifications
 2.12           #23676 fix some issues in the PR, testing and git wizardry
=====
 2.35

2026/04/16      Thursday
 1.17           #24370 comments
 0.20           #24369 review and approve
 0.50           #24360 review, review discussion and approve
 0.20           #24357 review and approve
 0.07           #23676/24335 apply to blead
 0.58           #24299 try to review, minor issues, need more thought for
                the actual fix
 0.20           #24343 review and approve
 0.05           #24299 briefly comment
=====
 2.97

2026/04/20      Monday
 0.17           github notifications
 0.08           #24105 comment
 0.83           #24304 review updates and comments
 0.12           #24251 review updates and approve
 1.48           #10346 rewrite, testing, make PR 24381
 0.73           #24299 review
 1.12           #24999 review, comment with conditional approval
=====
 4.53

2026/04/21      Tuesday
 0.12           github notifications
 0.20           ppc #81 review
 0.72           #24378 review and comment
 0.18           #24356 review - seems incomplete
 0.15           #24356 follow-up
 2.58           #24005 recheck, minor fixes and a more significant fix,
                work on moving debugging regular expressions to another
                pod
=====
 3.95

2026/04/22      Wednesday
 0.28           #24361 review discussion and comment
 0.40           #24304 review updates and comments
 0.22           #24378 more comment
 0.37           #24005 commit clean up
 0.68           #24356 try to get this to generate new macros
 0.63           #24356 got it working, testing and comment
 0.55           #24005 review perldebguts
=====
 3.13

2026/04/23      Thursday
 0.13           #24361 review latest and comment
 2.25           #24387 review, testing, debugging and comments
 0.57           review failing smoke reports - try to reproduce SelfLoader
                failures
 1.35           debugging SelfLoader - handle duplication error?
                sysseek(.. tell()...) seems suspect
=====
 4.30

2026/04/28      Tuesday
 0.58           #24378 review updates and approve
 0.40           #24387 review updates and approve
 0.32           #24304 review updates and comment
 0.52           #24390 review, check build logs, testing and comment
 1.42           SeflLoader - research glibc source, debugging, testing
=====
 3.24

2026/04/29      Wednesday
 1.55           #24396 review, research and comment
 0.20           #24394 review and approve
 1.98           SelfLoader research- possible causes, history, work on
                fix, long commit message, more testing, push for smoke-me
=====
 3.73

2026/04/30      Thursday
 0.52           #24397 review, comment and approve
 1.77           #24389 review, research and approve
 0.13           #24388 review and approve
=====
 2.42

Which I calculate is 58.14 hours.

Approximately 38 tickets were reviewed or worked on.