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Today is March 24, 2014. There are approximately 57 days until the expected
release of Perl 5.20.0. A summary of blockers follows.
## Critical Behavior Changes or Bugs
1. $!, UTF8, and locales
https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=119499
I hope to make a post about this soon.
2. /m causing false negative
https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121484
This is a big deal and needs fixing.
3. "Make perlbug Unicode-aware" broke perlbug on Win32
https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121277
I'd rather not revert the change, but we need this to work on Win32.
## Other Bugs
4. IO::Socket getsockopt subroutine on AIX
https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=120835
We have a patch. It needs review, application, and testing.
5. p /x in debugger yields memory fault
https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=120998
"Yup. That's a real bug." I think it's really a blocker, too.
6. Gconvert() obeys LC_NUMERIC without "use locale"
https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121317
Karl asserts that the change is correct, although a new macro may be
warranted. I think I agree. Dissenters should dissent soon. It would
probably be nice to have that wrapper available soon, too.
## BBC Reports
7. PERLER/JavaScript-Dumper-0.011.tar.gz
https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121013
This is part of locale fixes for stringifying numbers. My gut instinct is
to think that this is bound to be something for PERLER to fix downstream.
8. YVES/Data-Dump-Streamer-2.37.tar.gz
https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121139
YVES said he'd follow up. Hey, Yves, what's the word? :)
9. RYBSKEJ/forks-0.34.tar.gz
https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121352
I have no idea what's up here. Broken by "Make set-magic handle vstrings
properly"
## Minor Issues
10. speed up miniperl @INC, buildsitecustomize
https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121119
I think we can surely live without this, but it looks like something we can
*probably* apply safely now. I'd like to get a few ±1's from committers.
11. core tests fail when built on FAT drive with Win32 OS on NTFS
https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=21442
This has been a problem forever, but the provided patch looks okay. That
said, the patch also says it doesn't really fix the whole problem. I think
the actual course of action for 5.20.0 is to add a Known Problems entry.
Thoughts?
## To Observe Only
These don't block 5.20.0, but are collected as things to keep an eye on.
12. New copy-on-write breaks CPAN
https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=115910
I think that this has become an informational ticket. There are still some
things broken, but "that's their problem." We would like to see them
fixed, and will help if we can, but this isn't really *blocking* the next
release.
13. document/publicize THINKFIRST
https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=116925
Documentation has been added. Tony has some further suggestions. This
looks like is a meta-question to be answered: how much of what Tony
suggests had best be done before 5.20?
14. Our Asian documentation should be updated
https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=117765
This is informational for me. I am going to make a renewed call for the
un-updated documentation *today*. No matter what, I will close this ticket
(possibly replacing it with more specific tickets) at or around 5.20.0.
## VALGRIND
Finallly, some valgrind errors:
15. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121335
16. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121366
17. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121373
We should try to get these cleared up ASAP, because (a) some are sure to take
longer than we think and (b) probably we'll find a few more on the way there!
--
rjbs
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