Re: TONYC Grant Report April 2026

On Thu, May 7, 2026, at 7:49 PM, Tony Cook wrote:
> [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.

Thanks Tony!

+1 from me.

https://news.perlfoundation.org/post/maintaining_perl_tonyc_april_2026

-- Matthew Horsfall (alh)