TONYC TPF grant report #5

[Hours]         [Activity]
2013/07/22      Monday
 1.52           #74798 - BBC review, Project::Easy, autobox::dump
 1.18           #74798 - more autobox::dump
 0.75           #118525 - alternate patch
=====
 3.45

2013/07/23      Tuesday
 0.92           #74798 - slightly modify patch and apply, report bug
                against Project::Easy
 0.77           #116190 - retest, apply, perldelta
 0.72           #114972 - apply, test, perldelta
 0.52           #74798 - fix threaded builds
=====
 2.93

2013/07/24      Wednesday
 0.30           #118959 - changes spec - test and apply
 0.80           #116989 - apply reversion patch
 0.35           #108276 - scalarvoid stack overflow - review discussion,
                patch not ready
 0.98           #113088 - Data::Dumper utf8 flag - review discussion,
                comment
 0.63           #114964 - ref documentation, review, comment (and what
                does ref do on an INVLIST?)
 0.45           #118923 - apply, update AUTHORS, add note, resolve
 0.47           #118907 - test, apply, perldelta
 1.40           #118995 - fix bigrat - try to figure out a test, fail,
                test an installed perl, update versions, perldelta
=====
 5.38

2013/07/25      Thursday
 1.83           #118525 - produce alternate patch
 1.60           #114722 - child reap under exception, review, reproduce
                problem, comment
 0.43           #115076 - Test::More for Pod::Functions - review, prepare
                fix, comment
 0.48           #115928 - follow-up
=====
 4.34

2013/07/26      Friday
 1.38           #39739 - apply, test, perldelta
 0.07           #78190 - close with comment
 0.27           #116054 - comment to mark patch obsolete
 0.37           #117355 - review, rebase, leave it for now
 2.75           #117265 - prepare alternate patch (WIP)
=====
 4.84

Which I calculate is 20.94 hours

Approximately 20 tickets were work on, and 8 patches were applied

The change in #74798 added an XS implementation of Data::Dumper for
the Useqq case.  This change broke two CPAN modules.

autobox::dump depends on the exact output Dumper under Useqq, which
was (mostly) reasonable, so I adjusted the output so they match.

Project::Easy however fiddles with the implementation, globally
replacing Data::Dumper::qquote (no local).  Since the XS
implementation doesn't use the pure perl qquote() this caused tests to
fail.  I've opened [cpan #87171] to let the author know about the
change.

• TONYC TPF grant report #5 by Tony Cook