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

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the January/February 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 February 20th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced the last week of February. Perl-Based CloudForFree.org Platform Name: John

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposals for the January/February round. Perl Camp in Democratic Republic of Congo Curating and improving Perl6 documentation MySQL Support In RPerl Compiler List Operators In RPerl Compiler OS Installation Packages for RPerl Compiler Perl-Based CloudForFree.org Platform 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

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the January/February 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 February 20th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced the last week of February. OS Installation Packages for RPerl Compiler

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the January/February 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 February 20th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced the last week of February. List Operators In RPerl Compiler Name:

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the January/February 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 February 20th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced the last week of February. MySQL Support In RPerl Compiler Name:

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the January/February 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 February 20th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced the last week of February. Curating and improving Perl6 documentation Name:

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the January/February 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 February 20th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced the last week of February. Please note that this particular request

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. The main thing I did last month was to fix a bunch of issues with tr///c. Initially I was just working on a particular ticket, then noticed that tr///c was almost completed untested in core, and had a bunch of issues, and I