DAVEM TPF Grant#2 March 2016 report

I spent last month mainly:

1) continuing to look into some of the CPAN breakage associated with my
   recent context work that's been merged into blead;
2) continuing to look at smoke and 5.24 blocker issues


SUMMARY:
      0:25 [perl #124216] Perl_sv_clear: Assertion
      1:11 [perl #127380] Flawed environmental variable handling
      5:24 [perl #127455] regex qr/(?[ [B] | ! ( [^B] ) ])/ fails to compile on x64 debugging optimized builds
     15:53 [perl #127543] dtrace/-DDEBUGGING builds now fail on Solaris
      1:27 [perl #127727] Bleadperl v5.23.7-133-g7b0c33a breaks WBRASWELL/RPerl-1.600000.tar.gz
      2:32 [perl #127754] two 5.22.x crashes
      3:20 [perl #127790] Re: segfault involving Data::Dumper, anonymous sub, and scalar ref
      7:15 disallow 'require ::foo'
      2:27 fix List::Util and lc() corruption issue
     23:16 fix build warnings and smoke failures
      2:05 fixup CPAN distributions affected by context changes (Devel-NYTProf)
      2:17 fixup CPAN distributions affected by context changes (Net-Yadis)
      1:02 fixup CPAN distributions affected by context changes (Sig-PackageScoped)
     14:57 process p5p mailbox
      5:27 review CHEK work
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     88:58 TOTAL (HH::MM)


As of 2016/03/31: since the beginning of the grant:

 128.6 weeks
1778.4 total hours
  13.8 average hours per week

There are 222 hours left on the grant.

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• DAVEM TPF Grant#2 March 2016 report by Dave Mitchell
• Re: DAVEM TPF Grant#2 March 2016 report by Marcus Holland-Moritz
• Re: DAVEM TPF Grant#2 March 2016 report by Shlomi Fish