TONYC Grant Report June 2026

[email protected] (Tony Cook) Fri, 10 Jul 2026 09:11:57 +1000
Newsgroups perl.perl5.porters
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[Hours]         [Activity]
2026/06/01      Monday
 3.15           security list #148
 1.67           security list #148
=====
 4.82

2026/06/02      Tuesday
 0.87           atomic stuff on list
 0.62           #24447 review discussion, ci results and comment
 0.20           #24440 review
 0.48           #24440 more review, simple testing and comment
 1.17           #24451 review and comment
=====
 3.34

2026/06/03      Wednesday
 0.27           #24451 review updates
=====
 0.27

2026/06/04      Thursday
 1.05           #24451 more review, comments
 0.15           #24304 comment
 1.82           #24439 review, work on a fix for an issue this exposed,
                push for CI
 1.38           #24439 review
=====
 4.40

2026/06/05      Friday
 0.77           #24453 research and comment
 1.35           #24439 more review
 1.23           #24439 more review
=====
 3.35

2026/06/08      Monday
 1.33           #24451 review updates, testing and comments
 1.18           #24439 more review, look into only apparently relevant
                smoke-me failure and can’t reproduce, comment
 0.15           #24454 review and approve
 0.23           #24455 review, research and approve
 0.50           #24459 review
 1.18           #24459 more review, comments
 0.50           #24418 debugging
=====
 5.07

2026/06/09      Tuesday
 0.43           #24451 av_splice - tied SPLICE returns more elements -
                testing and comment
 1.27           #24463 review, testing and approve
 0.77           #24448 review, testing
 0.97           #24448 more review, testing, comments
 1.02           #24418 debugging
=====
 4.46

2026/06/10      Wednesday
 0.52           #24447 review updates and comment
 2.52           #24418 debugging, work on a fix, test cases, testing, push
                for CI
 0.30           #24418 perldelta
=====
 3.34

2026/06/11      Thursday
 0.20           #24465 review and approve
 1.40           :utf8 strict
 1.02           :utf8 strict
=====
 2.62

2026/06/12      Friday
 2.13           Pauls AV API, emails
=====
 2.13

2026/06/15      Monday
 2.02           #24471 review, testing, research and comment
 1.30           #24472 review OP and downstream patch, try to reproduce a
                similar configuration on FreeBSD and succeed(ish - it
                failed to build)
 1.08           #24472 try to work up a fix
=====
 4.40

2026/06/16      Tuesday
 0.20           #24475 review, compare old workflow reports against PR
                workflow run, approve
 0.17           #24476 review, check old and PR workflow runs, approve
 0.30           #24477 review, check old and PR workflow runs, comment and
                approve
 0.65           #24474 review, research and approve
 0.37           #24473 review and comment
 0.63           #24472 Configure detection of quadmath fpclassify
 1.13           #24472 more Configure, work on the actual code
=====
 3.45

2026/06/17      Wednesday
 0.25           #24473 review and approve
 0.92           #24478 review and comment
 1.75           #24459 review, testing and comments
 1.15           #24472 re-work Configure a bit, work on failing POSIX
                build on freebsd, testing
=====
 4.07

2026/06/18      Thursday
 0.45           #24471 review updates and discussion
 1.77           #24459 review discussion, research and comment, check for
                a possible TARG leak and it’s not an issue.
 0.12           #24482 check CI results and restart (failed due to
                infrastructure)
 0.40           #24483 comment (after looking back at the relevant IRC
                discussion, no ticket?)
 0.13           #24485 comment
 0.68           #24484 review and comments
 1.73           #24472 try to fix failures (one is
                ../lib/ExtUtils/t/Embed.t)
=====
 5.28

2026/06/22      Monday
 0.83           #24484 review updates and approve
 0.12           #24483 review update and approve
 0.43           #8309 research and follow-up
 0.08           #24478 review updates and approve
 0.32           #24447 review updates, start CI and check for build
                warnings, approve
 0.38           #24105 review update and research
 0.08           #24459 follow-up
 1.27           #24472 debug build issue
 0.72           #24472 more debug build issue
=====
 4.23

2026/06/23      Tuesday
 0.92           #24497 review
 1.40           5.44 RC testing - win x86_32, freebsd x86_64, macos arm,
                cygwin, win x86_64
 1.00           fix macos readdir_r warning - reproduce, fix, testing,
                push for CI
 0.47           fix macos is_codeset_name_UTF8 warning, explore a sea of
                macro definitions
=====
 3.79

2026/06/24      Wednesday
 0.47           fix macos is_codeset_name_UTF8, more macro decoding, make
                PR for readdir_r change
 1.65           #24495 review, research and comments
 0.58           #24489 review and comments
 0.57           #24493 review, research and comment
 0.22           macos uselongdouble noise, arm64 doesn’t really have ldbl
 0.83           win32 run/todo.t noise - better way to get DEBUGGING?
=====
 4.32

2026/06/25      Thursday
 1.20           #24472 build a quadmath win32 perl, research
 1.82           #24472 beat head against the mingw build wall, testing,
                more research and comment
=====
 3.02

2026/06/26      Friday
 1.47           #24502 review, testing
=====
 1.47

2026/06/29      Monday
 0.68           #24447 follow-up
 0.12           #24504 review
 0.40           #24503 review
 1.42           #24502 more review and testing, comment
 0.67           #24513 review, research and comments
 0.12           #24505 review and approve
 1.20           #24508 review, comments
=====
 4.61

2026/06/30      Tuesday
 0.33           #24508 follow-up
 0.13           #24513 review updates and comment
 1.03           #23918 comment in associate Algorithm::Heapify::XS ticket
                and open a related Algorithm::Heapify::XS ticket
 0.92           #24502 more review, comment
 0.70           #24518 review and comment with test code
 1.12           #23918 look at adding sv_numcmp etc to ppport
=====
 4.23

Which I calculate is 76.67 hours.

Approximately 40 tickets were reviewed or worked on.