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.

JJ Merelo has completed work on his grant, and has published his final report. The Grants Committee is now reviewing and voting on payment. The Committee welcomes your comments as they deliberate. MAJ

Tina Müller has provided her final report of her work on her grant Complete YAML::PP. The Grants Committee is now evaluating and voting on final payment. The committee welcomes your comments here as they deliberate. Please comment here rather than on the gist. MAJ

Zoffix has posted his June Report. Most of the work on constants has been completed; Some bad math on zero-denominator rationals has been fixed. As Zoffix works through these issues, some work may find its way into ecosystem modules instead of core Perl 6. You can read all the details at his June 2018 blogs.perl.com posting Note that Zoffix will be taking the next month off to focus on some

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the May/June 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 June 16th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced the last week of June. Introduction to Application Development with Perl

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the May/June 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 June 16th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced the last week of June. App::rs The first reference counting CPAN

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposals for the May/June round. Introduction to Application Development with Perl 6 App::rs The first reference counting CPAN client 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 June 16th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that

We call him... The Closer. JJ made 324 commits in May on top of the 195 in April to https://github.com/perl6/doc, and is now as the top closer of issues in the repo. He also sketched out most of the missing pages in the the Perl6 Docs Roadmap. That enabled that albatross to be tossed overboard as well. JJ has also written a couple of metadocuments, describing patterns he has observed

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 June 9th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback through June 16th, and

I'm happy to report that the Test2 Manual has been accepted as complete by the Committee. Thanks to Chad for seeing this grant through, and to Alberto for acting as grant manager.