TPF Grant April 2010 report

As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the April period.

I continued working my way through the list of tie bugs, then towards the
end of the month, got sucked into spending quite a bit of time on a regexp
bug. I also spent a bit of time revisiting some earlier fixes of mine
where issues showed up once we got 5.12 released and started smoking stuff
again.

Over the first 8 weeks I have now averaged about 18 hours per week,
slightly less than the nominal 20.


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Report for period 2010/04/01 to 2010/04/30 inclusive

SUMMARY
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    Effort (HH::MM):

        9:55 diagnosing bugs
       37:55 fixing bugs
        0:00 reviewing other people's bug fixes
        0:00 reviewing ticket histories
        4:25 review the ticket queue (triage)
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       52:15 TOTAL

    Numbers of tickets closed:

           3 tickets closed that have been worked on
           0 tickets closed related to bugs that have been fixed
           7 tickets closed that were reviewed but not worked on (triage)
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          10 TOTAL


SHORT DETAIL
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 6:10 [perl #5475] Bug in taint+regex+hash/arrays
 0:25 [perl #7938] local @tied_array broken
 7:25 [perl #8857] STORE incorrectly invoked for local($_) on aliased tied array element
13:10 [perl #23810] Tied methods break when combined with eval() of failing compile-time code
 0:20 [perl #67260] Using $> and $< incorrectly enables taint at runtime
20:20 [perl #74484] Regex causing exponential runtime+mem usage
 4:25 [TRIAGE]


-- 
A major Starfleet emergency breaks out near the Enterprise, but
fortunately some other ships in the area are able to deal with it to
everyone's satisfaction.
    -- Things That Never Happen in "Star Trek" #13

• TPF Grant April 2010 report by Dave Mitchell
• TPF Grant May 2010 report by Dave Mitchell
• Re: TPF Grant May 2010 report by Marcus Holland-Moritz
• Re: TPF Grant May 2010 report by Jesse Vincent