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.

Zoffix has already dug in on his grant, making some decent progress in the first month. Taking a test driven approach and implementing tests for the work in branches, he's identified some issues that will cause him to modify the original approach. You can read all the details at his May 2018 blogs.perl.com posting

JJ has made impressive progress on the backlog of documentation issues as part of his grant. He has already addressed and closed twice as many issues as all those closed by others. In doing so, he has committed about as many times as all other contributors to the repo. While addressing issues, JJ performed some additional housecleaning and put in some quality time at StackOverflow. You can read all the

The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the March 2018 round. There was one proposal this round: Voting results: Approved and funded: 7 yes votes with a score of 31 No specific feedback is available. Next Round We accept proposals throughout the year; our next round of voting would be in May You can submit proposals now. If you want to help with funding and increase our budget, please

Follows the report by Chad Granum for his grant: Test2 Manual. Test2 Manual grant complete This is a completion report for the Test2 manual grant. Deliverables Test2::Manual Original description: A brief introduction and table of contents. Completed form: Jumping off point with a map of the manual layout/table of contents. Test2::Manual::Tooling Original description: This section will cover writing test tools. This would be a

Tinita spent about 25 hours coding YAML::PP during March. She emitted a production release at YAML::PP 0.006, which incorporates items from her previous reports, adding Writer and Representer objects, a nice Dumper, and cyclic reference detection. In a spirit of multi-cultural outreach and understanding, she also made her first PR to PyYAML. You can read all the details in her latest report. MAJ

Perl 6: Bugfixing and Performance of Rationals Fixing Constraints on Constants Name: Zoffix Znet Amount Requested: USD 1,999 Synopsis The proposal is to perform two pieces of work on the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler along with a third bonus piece: 1. Implement support for type constraints on constants and polish some of the rough edges with and constants initializer calls. 2. Fix several bugs and a race

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the March/April round. Perl 6: Bugfixing and Performance of Rationals Fixing Constraints on Constants 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 April 7th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion

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 March 27th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback through April 3rd, and

Timo has made good progress and is writing about it. Please see: Delays and Delights Delays and Delights Hi, my name is timotimo and I'm a Perl 6 developer. I've set up this blog to write reports on my TPF Grant Before the actual report starts, I'd like to issue an apology. In between my grant application and the grant being accepted I developed a bit of RSI that lasted

Tinita spent about 20 hours coding YAML::PP this month. To her growing YAML bibliography, she has added "Strings in YAML To Quote or not to Quote". Here Tina shows very clearly that Ingy's ultimate goal was to write the Kobiyashi Maru of format specifications.

The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the January 2018 round. There were six proposals in this round. Curating and improving Perl6 documentation Voting results: Approved and funded: 5 yes, 1 abstention, 1 no with a score of 15 Some voters expressed concern about the comments/feedback posted on the grant. It is our hope that the requestor will work closely with the community when implementing this grant. Future grants