Re: TONYC Grant Report August 2026

On Fri, Sep 4, 2026, at 9:25 AM, Tony Cook wrote:
> [Hours]         [Activity]
> 2026/08/03      Monday
> 0.43           #24557 review some more and comments
> 0.60           #24643 review and comments
> 0.17           #24629 review and approve
> 0.18           #24628 review and approve
> 0.88           #22659 try to review, comments
> 0.97           #24651 review, testing and comment
> 0.18           #24651 review updates and approve
> 0.87           #24616 work on a fix (had an epiphany), testing, push for
>                 CI
> 0.50           investigate possible dXSTARG/constant folding issue
> =====
> 4.78
> 
> 2026/08/04      Tuesday
> 0.28           #24643 follow-up
> 1.07           #24451 test a theory, comment, same issue in core
>                 splice(), open #24659
> 0.78           more dXSTARG/pp_reftype (might be a sv_set_undef() bug,
>                 work up tests and a fix, push for CI
> 0.33           #24616 check CI results, perldelta and make PR #24660
> 0.67           sv_set_undef() issue - check CI results and work out
>                 failures, testing
> 0.65           sv_set_undef(), check CI issues, re-work a bit, make PR
>                 #24661
> 0.48           #24594 review and approve
> =====
> 4.26
> 
> 2026/08/05      Wednesday
> 0.08           #24616 apply to blead
> 0.08           #24661 rebase and apply to blead
> 0.23           #23847 comment
> 1.57           #24448 review updates, comments
> 1.00           #24187 review updates, try to figure out the behaviour,
>                 start a comment
> 0.50           #24187 work out what’s going on, finish off comment
>                 started above
> 0.12           #24663 review and approve
> 0.10           #24664 review and approve
> 0.23           #24648 review and approve
> 0.15           #24650 review, research and comment
> =====
> 4.06
> 
> 2026/08/06      Thursday
> 0.35           #23847 review updates and comment
> 0.27           #24448 review updates, comment and approve
> 0.77           #24471 review discussion, research and comment
> 1.72           #24105 refresh review, research, comments
> 0.85           #24634 work on tests, fix, testing, push for CI
> =====
> 3.96
> 
> 2026/08/10      Monday
> 1.90           #24672 review, some testing, approve
> 0.47           #24666 review, research, briefly comment
> 0.92           #24662 review, research and comment
> 0.35           #24634 check CI results, perldelta and make PR 24675
> 0.77           #24659 work up tests, review splice code, av_store() magic
>                 handling to try to work up a fix
> =====
> 4.41
> 
> 2026/08/11      Tuesday
> 0.28           #24679 review, research, comment
> 0.38           #24634 re-work test comment
> 0.87           #24593 research, comment on a lot of macro names
> 0.60           #24677 review and comments
> 0.38           #23506 think about to test this
> 0.95           #24659 work up a fix, testing, consider exception safety
> =====
> 3.46
> 
> 2026/08/12      Wednesday
> 0.63           #24679 related private email
> 0.25           #24593 research (including bouncing off some metacpan
>                 503s), comment
> 0.58           #24690 review and approve, comment
> 0.08           #24677 follow-up comment
> 0.10           #24679 follow-up
> 0.23           #24632 follow-up
> 0.17           #24688 review and briefly comment
> 1.37           #24659 make it more exception safe, fixes, some re-work,
>                 push for CI
> =====
> 3.41
> 
> 2026/08/13      Thursday
> 0.40           #24695 review, re-run failed CI jobs, and approve
> 0.43           #24697 review and approve
> 0.12           #24681 review, and merge due to LGTM from other committer
> 0.88           #24691 review. try to make the issue fixed crash without -
>                 Dpv, approve with comment
> 0.68           #24680 review, testing and approve
> 1.10           #24659 look into CI failures, and re-run, perldelta, open
>                 PR 24702
> =====
> 3.61
> 
> 2026/08/17      Monday
> 1.30           #24674 review and comments
> 0.68           #24686 review, check original ticket, research, comment on
>                 original ticket
> 0.08           #24659 minor perldelta edit
> 0.33           #24704 review, research, and approve with comment
> 0.12           #24708 review, research and approve
> 0.30           #24710 review, research
> =====
> 2.81
> 
> 2026/08/18      Tuesday
> 0.38           #24710 testing, some debugging and approve
> 0.57           #24714 review, research and approve
> 1.20           #24717 review, performance testing and comment
> 2.10           #24722 review, comments
> =====
> 4.25
> 
> 2026/08/19      Wednesday
> 0.22           #24724 review and approve
> 0.35           #24725 review, research and approve with comment
> 0.27           #24728 review, research and approve
> 0.68           #21750 research, comment
> 1.15           #23369 review, comment
> 1.87           #23369 more review, testing, find some issues, some style
>                 comments
> =====
> 4.54
> 
> 2026/08/20      Thursday
> 0.50           #24732 review and comment
> 1.53           ppport some max constants, update Changes, testing and
>                 push for CI
> 0.38           #24396 review and approve
> 1.83           #16869 debugging, testing
> =====
> 4.24
> 
> 2026/08/24      Monday
> 0.22           #24708 research and comment
> 0.78           #24666 testing, report bug upstream
> 0.63           #24674 review and comments
> 0.10           #24733 apply to blead
> 0.60           #24738 review and comment
> 0.08           #24748 review and approve
> 0.07           #24749 review and approve
> 0.47           #24751 review, research and comment
> 0.08           #24752 review and approve
> 0.28           #24747 review and comment
> 0.12           #24674 follow-up
> 0.35           #24751 review updates and approve
> 0.18           #24282 review and approve
> 0.90           #23506 work up a test for overloads
> =====
> 4.86
> 
> 2026/08/25      Tuesday
> 0.12           #24738 review update and approve
> 0.62           #24674 try to think of an alternative name and comment
> 0.37           #24747 review updates and approve
> 0.93           #23369 more review and comments
> 0.08           #24750 review and approve
> 0.58           #24753 review and approve with comment
> 0.32           #24754 review and approve
> =====
> 3.02
> 
> 2026/08/26      Wednesday
> 0.98           #23369 review updates and approve
> 0.70           #24508 review updates and comment
> 0.53           #24666 review updates, research and comment
> 1.45           #24726 review, testing, work on updating test machine
> 0.23           #24756 review and comment
> =====
> 3.89
> 
> 2026/08/27      Thursday
> 0.17           #24451 review updates
> 0.60           RNG discussion IRC
> 0.45           #24659 make suggested test change, testing, push for CI
> 0.45           #24304 re-check
> 1.52           #24726 try to setup to test this, no success
> 0.10           #24659 review CI results and apply to blead
> 0.63           #23506 testing and comment
> 1.05           debugging build detection - implementation, test updates
>                 and testing, push for CI
> =====
> 4.97
> 
> 2026/08/31      Monday
> 0.30           #24666 review update and comment
> 0.08           #24691 review discussion and give the double approval
> 0.08           #24508 review discussion and approve
> 0.18           #24717 research
> 0.20           #24767 comment: no need to PR for CI
> 0.40           #24765 review, research, restart one ASAN job, comments
> 0.18           #24768 review and approve
> 0.22           #24769 review, research and comment
> 0.05           #24771 review and approve
> 1.60           #24775 review, and review discussion, comment, open
>                 alternate PR 24777
> 0.53           debugging build detection: (also some 24777 discussion in
>                 IRC)
> 0.08           #24776 review and approve
> 1.30           debugging build detection: work up a fix, testing, push
>                 for CI
> =====
> 5.20
> 
> Which I calculate is 69.73 hours.
> 
> Approximately 74 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 4 patches
> were applied.

Thanks Tony, +1 from me!

https://news.perlfoundation.org/post/maintaining_perl_tonyc_august_2026

-- Matthew Horsfall (alh)