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Richard Foley
Date:
March 20, 2010 07:27
Subject:
Re: TPF bug-grant report #1
Message ID:
201003201529.32385.Richard.Foley@rfi.net
Absolutely brilliant news, Dave.  This makes the "Re: spending other people's 
money" thread all of a sudden rather unnecessary, and it's good to see money 
being spent on Perl 5 again.  Super :-)

--
Richard Foley
Ciao - shorter than aufwiedersehen

http://www.rfi.net/

On Monday 15 March 2010 14:55:50 Dave Mitchell wrote:
> As most of you will be aware, The Perl Foundation recently awarded me a
> grant to spend approx 50% of my time over the next 6 months working on
> fixing perl 5 bugs. Part of the agreement is that I send a report to p5p
> once per week. So, here's the first report!
>
> I haven't done much in the way of actual fixing this week, but I *have*
> gone through the 500 or so new/open RT tickets that have (severity >=
> medium), and marked each one up with one or more of the new 'type' custom
> field values I recently asked to be added to RT, e.g. 'Unicode' or
> 'debugger'.  Note that these are intended to be a few broad categories, so
> for example anything even vaguely related to character sets, locale,
> encoding, (ord > 255) etc have been marked as'Unicode'.
>
> The 1000 or so new/open tickets that have severity < medium haven't been
> triaged or marked up, and I don't have any immediate intention to do so;
> but if people think that's a good use of my grant time, then I'll happily
> do so. I estimate this would be about 30 additional hours of effort.
>
> As a side-effect of the triage, I also took the opportunity to
> resolve/reject/stall 37 tickets where it was obvious I could do so.
>
> The new types can be found on the RT summary page:
>
>     http://rt.perl.org/rt3/NoAuth/perl5/Overview.html
>
> under 'Overview of Open Issues', which also contains handy links to search
> for tickets with the said type. So it's really easy now for example to get
> a big list of Unicode-related bugs.
>
> The "interesting" totals on that page (i.e. the categories I've been
> marking up) are:
>
>  7   configure
> 70   CoreDump
>  8   debugger
> 33   docs
> 43   install
> 38   ithreads
> 40   leak/refcount/malloc
> 32   lexical/scope/closure
> 18   numerical
> 22   OO/ISA/MRO/overload
> 51   OS-interaction
> 12   parsing
> 18   Patch
>  3   performance
> 48   PerlIO
> 37   portability
> 79   regex
> 18   security/tainting
> 19   tie
> 62   Unicode
> 16   XS/embedding
>
> Finally, here's my automated report of what hours were spent on what:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Report for period 2010/03/08 to 2010/03/14 inclusive
>
> SUMMARY
> -------
>
>     Effort (HH::MM):
>
>         1:40 diagnosing bugs
>         0:30 fixing bugs
>         6:20 reviewing other people's bug fixes
>        15:10 review the ticket queue (triage)
>        -----
>        23:40 TOTAL
>
>     Numbers of tickets closed:
>
>            0 tickets that have been worked on
>            0 tickets related to bugs that have been fixed
>           37 reviewed but not worked on (triage)
>        -----
>           37 TOTAL
>
>
> DETAIL
> ------
>
> [perl #72740] Bleadperl breaks LEMBARK/LinkedList-Single-0.99.1.tar.gz
>
>     2010/03/08	1:50 review
> 			well, more like trying to understand the issue
>
>     2010/03/10	3:30 review
> 			reviewed and applied Zefram's fix with some
> 			follow-up comments
>
> [perl #73052] Storable considerably slower at storing coderefs
>
>     2010/03/08	1:40 diag
> 			failed to find any easy 5.12 workaround
>
>     2010/03/10	0:30 fix
> 			revert const deparsing code
>
> [perl #73330] Bug in threads->tid
>
>     2010/03/09  1:00 review
> 			review Jerry's fix
>
> [TRIAGE]
>
>     2010/03/13  8:30 triage
> 				reviewed and set the type on 300 bugs:
> 				new/open bugs with severity >= medium
>
>     2010/03/13     - close-triage  7487  7565 22834 23840 26992 31691 32273
>
>     2010/03/13     - close-triage 33710 34207 34349 37128 38646 40654
>
>     2010/03/14  6:40 triage
> 				reviewed and set the type on 200 bugs:
> 				new/open bugs with severity >= medium
>
>     2010/03/14     - close-triage 41647 45135 45337 51568 52216 55162 57302
>
>     2010/03/14     - close-triage 62444 63322 63620 63886 64550 64738 64762
>
>     2010/03/14     - close-triage 65408 66092 66244 68530 70528 71080 73026
>
>     2010/03/14     - close-triage 73490 73516 73562



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