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

This is a monthly report by Tony Cook on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. Approximately 29 tickets were reviewed, and 6 patches were applied 34.99 #127743 try to work up makefile rules for new stack limit handling #127743 more makefile rules, work on fetching config from var instead of a constant #127743

Jonathan Worthington recently requested an extension of his Perl 6 Performance and Reliability Engineering grant. I'm pleased to announce that the Board of Directors approved extension of another $10,000. It'll allow him to dedicate another 400 hours to this work. Additional $210 of expense was approved to cover the wire tranfer fee from the past payments and the next payment. I would like to thank the community members who took

This is a monthly report by Zefram on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. The hours that I have worked in 2018-01 pursuant to my TPF core maintenance grant are as follows. 9h33m review mail 5h31m review tickets 2h40m Bleadperl v5.27.6-206-g16ada235c3 breaks JGAMBLE/Algorithm-QuineMcCluskey-0.16.tar.gz 2h14m Subroutine doesn't create elements. 1h57m Cwd: different return

This is a monthly report by Tony Cook on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. Approximately 4 tickets were reviewed or worked on. 22.84 #127743 32-bit build warnings/build issues #127743 finish up 32-bit testing, commits, work on other unaddressed Storable issues, 64-bit frozen data #127743 handle 32-bit frozen data as unsigned, add support

Timo Paulssen is recovering from a repetitive strain injury, and has not been able to start work on the grant yet. While waiting for the condition to get better, Timo has been watching videos related to the technologies he will be using. Moving apartments in January has been another issue bothering Timo. Timo is very eager to start working on the grant as soon as he is able to.

Tinita spent about 10 hours coding YAML::PP this month. Additional integration of YAML Schemas into YAML::PP is percolating, and she is making deep dives into the YAML 1.2 spec where angels fear to tread. Read her latest report for details. MAJ

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, consider submitting a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 February 11th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback through February 18th, and conclude

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. This funding will come from the Perl 6 Core Development Fund. Will Coke Coleda agreed to continue the grant manager's role. Before we make a decision on this extension

This is a monthly report by Zefram on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. The hours that I have worked in 2017-12 pursuant to my TPF core maintenance grant are as follows. 22h40m socket SOCK_CLOEXEC 21h58m review tickets 16h19m review mail 12h47m smartmatch 11h19m Perl segfaults in BEGIN, write to null pointer,

This is a monthly report by Tony Cook on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. Two tickets were worked on. 17.98 #127743 work out a practical fix, work on implementation #127743 finish implementation testing #127743 commit, work on fix for network retrieves of large objects, fix some -DDEBUGGING build issues #127743 build issues,

More good stuff this month from Tinita on the grant Complete YAML::PP. She explains the YAML schema concept and its evolving flavors in this interesting post. This lays the foundation for understanding the schema features added to the YAML::PP loader. Tina also fixed a couple of problems in YAML::XS. An important one security-wise is that now you can turn off loading into Perl objects by default when using !!perl/.. schema

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 spent last month mainly: Fixing some more issues thrown up by the new OP_MULTICONCAT optimisation; Working on a few fuzzer tickets 7:01 BBC: MULTICONCAT: Mail-SpamAssassin-3.4.1 affected too 4:27 OP_MULTICONCAT failure on Z/OS 1:55 RT #132187 heap-buffer-overflow in Perl_fbm_instr

Tinita, the one-woman YAML ecosystem, continues apace with her grant Complete YAML::PP. Find her latest report on her blog. She is making headway on some of the cooler features of YAML: flow style, anchors, and special tags. Legit boolean behavior is now implemented in YAML::XS. The blog post provides a nice rundown of the 4 ways to quote in YAML. Wondering what all the fuss is about? check out Tina's

This is the first report from Zefram on his Perl 5 grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. The hours that I have worked in 2017-11 pursuant to my TPF core maintenance grant are as follows. 30h25m smartmatch 15h15m state 12h08m review tickets 9h54m review mail 8h26m no warnings "module name" 3h46m negative-size-param in

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 didn't do much TPF grant work for the last two months, as I was mainly working on OP_MULTICONCAT, which was funded by Booking.com. That's also why there's been a dearth of weekly reports. The main thing I did was making a few

As part of the Perl 6 core development fund, Jonathan Worthington has completed another 200 hour block of hours, and his report of what was completed follows the break. Many thanks to the TPF sponsors of this and other grants. If you're interested in supporting work like this, please donate: http://donate.perlfoundation.org/ Grant Completion Report: Perl 6 Performance and Reliability Engineering At the end of July, I was granted a 200

Tony Cook recently requested an extension of his Maintaining the Perl 5 Grant. I'm pleased to announce that the Board of Directors approved extension of another $20,000. It'll allow him to dedicate another 400 hours to this work. I would like to thank the community members who took time to comment on this grant extension request and our sponsors who made funding the grant possible through our Perl 5 Core

This is a monthly report by Tony Cook on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. Approximately 23 tickets were reviewed, and 7 patches were applied 0.33 #122807 review discussion 0.45 #124349 review discussion and apply patch 0.40 #125619 review discussion, research, briefly comment 0.25 #125760 review discussion, add to 5.30 blockers for make

The Grants Committee has expended its budget for the period ending with 2017. In accordance with the TPF rules of operation grants evaluations are stalled until further notice. I'm expecting that we'll be able to re-open evaluations starting in the January 2018 period. Thanks to all the TPF sponsors that make the grants process possible. Please consider becoming one and donating at http://donate.perlfoundation.org/ If you have further questions, please contact