The hours that I have worked in 2017-W50 pursuant to my TPF core maintenance grant are as follows. 2017-12-11: 2h29m [perl #132425] Suggested warning on attempt to 'use' with arguments when no import() subroutine exists 1h56m review tickets 1h00m review mail 52m [perl #104060] Writing to $> and friends hide errors 36m [perl #74142] provide a better c wrapper example in perlsec 19m [perl #74864] test suite failure on powerpc with -Duselongdouble 7h12m TOTAL 2017-12-12: 3h43m review tickets 2h00m [perl #132425] Suggested warning on attempt to 'use' with arguments when no import() subroutine exists 1h38m [perl #92264] Freeing $a or $b during sort causes a double free 1h31m review mail 1h29m [perl #132577] BBC Module::Install broken by 0301e899536a22752f40481d8a1d141b7a7dda82 1h09m [perl #132578] BBC List::MoreUtils::XS broken by 16ada235c332e017667585e1a5a00ce43a31c529 55m [perl #4574] readpipe() broken: 2 bugs 32m [perl #113090] Data::Dumper -- undef not recognized as "false" in config booleans 27m [perl #96538] Closures returned from threads don't wrap around the right lexicals 15m [perl #115754] sub refs returned from @INC hooks receive wrong parameters 13h39m TOTAL 2017-12-13: 2h19m [perl #105920] Perl parser sometimes tolerates stray nulls, sometimes not 1h45m review tickets 1h41m [perl #110520] pod2html 1.12 & 1.13 broken 1h04m review mail 19m [perl #122753] Docs on destructors are inaccurate 9m [perl #110056] installhtml uses absolute paths in links 7h17m TOTAL 2017-12-14: 2h03m [perl #110056] installhtml uses absolute paths in links 54m [perl #113406] perldoc in 5.16.0 required groff upgrade but now misdisplays asterisks 52m review tickets 16m review mail 15m [perl #6997] "Useless use of concatenation" warning not triggered by multiple concatenations. 13m [perl #129888] null ptr deref, segfault in Perl_do_aexec5 (doio.c:1595) 10m [perl #116080] Doc issues for system, exec, qx 6m [perl #132544] heap-buffer-overflow (WRITE of size 8) in Perl_pp_reverse 2m smartmatch 4h51m TOTAL 2017-12-15: 1h57m review tickets 1h32m perldelta 44m [perl #126150] Regex missing from perlref 25m [perl #114316] '--splithead' option to 'installhtml' fails to clean up after itself 23m create tickets 17m [perl #117449] GDBM tied hash weirdness; deletion ends 'each' loop 16m review mail 13m [perl #115252] Inconsistent treatment of nulls and newlines in <...> 5h47m TOTAL 2017-12-16: 3h12m review tickets 1h01m [perl #119367] Another 32-bit residual in 64-bit perl 5.18 45m C++ dNOOP 45m [perl #130726] semicolons on *_DIAG_{IGNORE,RESTORE} 38m [perl #119623] GDBM_FILE: gdbm_open requires a blocksize to be a power of two 37m [perl #121105] During a system(), unquoted Perl vars are evaluated _after_ the fork() call 37m [perl #121372] warn broken when operand is overloaded 18m [perl #132247] XSLoader and DynaLoader documentation bugs 12m [perl #126085] Not expected arguments for $SIG{__WARN__} handler 8h05m TOTAL 2017-12-17: 2h24m [perl #130076] readline argument list is messed up 2h00m smartmatch 23m review tickets 10m review mail 4h57m TOTAL 2017-W50 as a whole: 13h48m review tickets 4h29m [perl #132425] Suggested warning on attempt to 'use' with arguments when no import() subroutine exists 4h17m review mail 2h24m [perl #130076] readline argument list is messed up 2h19m [perl #105920] Perl parser sometimes tolerates stray nulls, sometimes not 2h12m [perl #110056] installhtml uses absolute paths in links 2h02m smartmatch 1h41m [perl #110520] pod2html 1.12 & 1.13 broken 1h38m [perl #92264] Freeing $a or $b during sort causes a double free 1h32m perldelta 1h29m [perl #132577] BBC Module::Install broken by 0301e899536a22752f40481d8a1d141b7a7dda82 1h09m [perl #132578] BBC List::MoreUtils::XS broken by 16ada235c332e017667585e1a5a00ce43a31c529 1h01m [perl #119367] Another 32-bit residual in 64-bit perl 5.18 55m [perl #4574] readpipe() broken: 2 bugs 54m [perl #113406] perldoc in 5.16.0 required groff upgrade but now misdisplays asterisks 52m [perl #104060] Writing to $> and friends hide errors 45m C++ dNOOP 45m [perl #130726] semicolons on *_DIAG_{IGNORE,RESTORE} 44m [perl #126150] Regex missing from perlref 38m [perl #119623] GDBM_FILE: gdbm_open requires a blocksize to be a power of two 37m [perl #121105] During a system(), unquoted Perl vars are evaluated _after_ the fork() call 37m [perl #121372] warn broken when operand is overloaded 36m [perl #74142] provide a better c wrapper example in perlsec 32m [perl #113090] Data::Dumper -- undef not recognized as "false" in config booleans 27m [perl #96538] Closures returned from threads don't wrap around the right lexicals 25m [perl #114316] '--splithead' option to 'installhtml' fails to clean up after itself 23m create tickets 19m [perl #74864] test suite failure on powerpc with -Duselongdouble 19m [perl #122753] Docs on destructors are inaccurate 18m [perl #132247] XSLoader and DynaLoader documentation bugs 17m [perl #117449] GDBM tied hash weirdness; deletion ends 'each' loop 15m [perl #6997] "Useless use of concatenation" warning not triggered by multiple concatenations. 15m [perl #115754] sub refs returned from @INC hooks receive wrong parameters 13m [perl #129888] null ptr deref, segfault in Perl_do_aexec5 (doio.c:1595) 13m [perl #115252] Inconsistent treatment of nulls and newlines in <...> 12m [perl #126085] Not expected arguments for $SIG{__WARN__} handler 10m [perl #116080] Doc issues for system, exec, qx 6m [perl #132544] heap-buffer-overflow (WRITE of size 8) in Perl_pp_reverse 51h48m TOTAL At the end of the week there was 153h22m of authorised working time remaining in this grant. -zefram