The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the September 2018 round. There were two proposals this round, both of which were approved and funded. Voting results: Approved and funded: 8 yes votes with a score of 32 Feedback generally positive. Voting results: Approved and funded: 6 yes votes with a score of 26 Feedback positive. One member noted that this is the kind of work that benefits from grant

Original article was published on November 9, 2018 The overview page now shows all data displayed in the previous profiler's page as well as adds a "Start times of threads" chart. "GC" tab has been updated with sub-tabs to customise graphs using different display modes. The routines list now features a "goto" arrow for smooth and easy navigation. Read more at: Where did I leave my AT-KEYs? Where did I

"Overview" tab is now functional but in flux. The "Routines" tab has been improved to include sorting functionality for columns, a minimal view in the "Paths" sub tab and a new "Callers" sub tab. An "Allocations" top level tab has also been added. Read more at: Full Screen Ahead! Full Screen Ahead! Whew, it's been a long time since the last report already! Let's see what's new. Photo by

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the Sep/Oct round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on the proposal. Review the proposal below and please comment here by October 17th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that. MoarVM JIT Compiler Expression Backend Maturation Name: Bart Wiegmans Amount Requested: USD 7,000.

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the Sep/Oct round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on the proposal. Update: You have until October 17th! Review the proposal below and please comment here by October 10th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that. Future::AsyncAwait Name: Paul Evans Amount Requested: GBP 4,800

Apologies for delays this month from the original schedule. The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the Sep/Oct round. Future::AsyncAwait MoarVM JIT Compiler Expression Backend Maturation Before the Committee members vote on the proposals, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community. Review the proposals at their individual links and please comment there by October 10th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process

The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period is upon us. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, please consider submitting a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 September 30th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback through October 7th, and

The first public release! Code is now hosted in GitHub Please see the instructions on how to install and run The release features a renewed "Routines" tab. Please read Timo's blog post to know how it compares to the previous profiler: The first public release! The first public release! Hello esteemed readers, and thank you for checking in on my progress. Not a full month ago I showed off the

The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the July 2018 round. My apologies for the delay. There was one proposal this round, which was not approved. Perl as piano sheet music/compiler/synthesizer Voting results: Not approved: 5 no votes, 4 abstentions Concerns from the committee included a lack of clarity on whether this was a continuation of an existing project or new development, and issues with the proposed syntax, esp.

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the July/August round. Perl as piano sheet music/compiler/synthesizer Before the Committee members vote on the proposals, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community. Review the proposals at their individual links and please comment there by August 26th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced shortly after.

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the July/August round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on the proposal. Review the proposal below and please comment here by August 26th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that. Perl as piano sheet music/compiler/synthesizer Name: Yang Bo Amount Requested: USD 2,500 Synopsis Write a

This is a monthly report by Dave Mitchell on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. I did very few hours last month. This was partly due to delays in getting my grant extended, and partly because I was busy with other things. SUMMARY: 2:00 RT #133352 Ancient Regex Regression 0:30 RT #133368 index optimisation in when

Timo has developed a shiny new UI for the tool. It displays thread-level garbage collection details. Read more at: Wow, check out this garbage Wow, check out this garbage Hello everyone! It's been more than a month since the last report, but I've been able to put hours in and get code out. And now I'll show you what's come out of the last weeks. The Garbage Collector One important

The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period is upon us. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, please consider submitting a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 August 5th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback through August 12th, and

The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the May 2018 round. My apologies for the delay. There were two proposals this round, but neither submission was approved. Introduction to Application Development with Perl 6 Voting results: Not approved: 4 no votes, 5 abstentions The committee is hesitant to fund a book at this time; there are several books on the market today; how would a freshman effort compare to

Jonathan Worthington has requested an extension of $10,000 for his Perl 6 Performance and Reliability Engineering grant. This will allow him to dedicate another 200 hours to this work. His previous work was successfully delivered as reported in the latest report. Jonathan writes: "A further grant extension will enable me to continue my work on Perl 6 performance and reliability. The 200 hours I just completed have seen both optimizations

Apologies for the delay; the GC is now conducting our voting for the May/June round and will post results next week. Thank you for your patience. Please look for the next Call for Proposals before the end of the month for the July/August round.

Timo is still not completely well. However, he has been able to make good progress: Optional parametres are now correctly logged Fixed a crash caused when the profiler is used on multithreaded code Read more at: No Major Breakthroughs No Major Breakthroughs Sadly, the time since the last post on this blog hasn't been fruitful with regards to the profiling project. There have been slight improvements to the profiler inside

I'm happy to note that the Curating and improving Perl6 documentation grant has submitted a final report, and the work has been accepted by the Committee. Thanks to JJ for his work on this project, and also to Mark for acting as grant manager.

I'm pleased to announce that the Complete YAML::PP grant is now itself completed, and the work has been accepted by the Committee. Thanks to Tina for her work, and to Mark for acting as grant manager.