Tina has put >50hrs in on YAML::PP, as she describes in her blog post. Some highlights: 23 tests added to the standard test suite Updates to the YAML Test Matrix Under-hood work on YAML::XS boolean handling and YAML flow-style. MAJ

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 47 tickets were reviewed, and 7 patches were applied. 7.13 #122112 work on a fix #122112 more work on a fix #122112 debugging #122112 debugging #122112 debugging, look for a different approach 2.31 #124256 re-work patch

Tony Cook has requested an extension of $20,000 for his Maintaining the Perl 5 grant. This will allow him to dedicate another 400 hours to this work. During this grant he sent regular reports to the p5p mailing list as well as providing monthly summary reports that have been published on this site, the most recent of which are linked below: August 2017 July 2017 May/June 2017 Before we make

The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the September 2017 round. There were two proposals in this round. Rakudo Perl 6 performance analysis tooling Performance Analysis Voting results: 7 Yes votes, and 2 abstentions with a score of 33 This grant is approved, and will be funded. Start Act Voyager Voyager Voting results: 2 Yes votes, 1 abstention, and 6 No votes This grant is not approved. Concerns were

I'm happy to announce that the GC has voted to accept the completion of the grant http://news.perlfoundation.org/2017/04/grant-proposal.html by Samantha McVey

This is a bookkeeping post regarding the 2014 Grant "Start ACT Voyager". Due to the Grant Committee's rules of operations, this grant was cancelled due to lack of progress in August of 2017.

Tinita has already achieved much in a short time on her grant to Complete YAML::PP. She has provided full details at blogs.perl.org. Some highlights: Produced YAML::PP::Lexer, ::Parser, ::Dumper, ::Emitter, ::Reader, ::Highlight Continued work towards full YAML 1.2 compliance Allows Unicode chars Bugfixes, refactors and miscellaneous doodads Code is on github. You're wondering "What's so cool about this?" Check out Tinita's talk where you can learn all about the secret features

Samantha has submitted her last grant update and her final review of her work for the consideration of the community and the Grants Committee. Highlights for the latest month of work include: Her Unicode Collation Algorithm is fully merged into MoarVM She has released full UCA documentation Prepends are handled with more generality, so that edge cases in certain ops now work properly Bugs in encoding into and handling UTF8-C8

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the September/October 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 September 26th, 2017. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced the first week of October. Act Voyager Name: Theo van

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the September/October 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 September 26th, 2017. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced the first week of October. Rakudo Perl 6 performance analysis tooling

In the last two months Chad has been working mostly on the Test2 code than in the documentation itself. This way he can document the final version of the API and do not need to, later, rewrite the docs. This work included the new event system. Chad released the stable version of Test2 two days ago, and therefore he is now resuming his work on the documentation.

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 work last month; I was mainly instead doing work funded by Booking.com. What time I did spend was mainly fixing a few 'blead breaks perl' tickets. SUMMARY: 1:34 RT #131938 BBC Imager-1.005.tar.gz 2:00 RT #131942 BBC

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 42 tickets were reviewed, and 9 patches were applied 0.53 #124368 retesting, apply to blead 4.13 #127663 testing, fix issues on Win32, more testing #127663 more testing, push smoke branch 0.57 #128263 retest, apply to blead 1.08

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 September 16th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback through September 23rd, and conclude

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 June mainly: finishing off the heavy reworking of perl's internal sprintf implementation. This has now been merged into blead. It contains about 100 commits which fixes bugs, audits the code for possible integer overflows, makes the code simpler

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 38 tickets were reviewed, and 3 patches were applied 0.12 #p5p POSIX 2008 locale api discussion with khw 4.00 #124368 work up a decent test, find a difference between threaded/non-threaded, work up a patch, testing #124368 more testing,

In her excellent overview of Unicode presented at YAPC-EU, Samantha gives us her take on Perl6 Unicode: “Torture the implementers for the sake of the users.” Perl6 Unicode users will certainly have some wonderfully easy access to deep Unicode magic thanks to her work. But reading her blog, I get a distinct impression of delight, rather than torture... In her complete blog post, she describes, among other details: Implementation of

The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the July 2017 round. There was one proposal in this round. Complete YAML::PP Complete YAML::PP Voting results: 8 Yes votes, and 1 abstention with a score of 40 This grant is approved, and will be funded. Tina's previous work in this area and enthusiasm were mentioned. Next Round Our next round will be in September; we've been running a little late in

The inchstones are falling like 1F030—1F09F as Samantha makes further progress on her grant to improve the robustness of Unicode support in Rakudo. In her complete blog post, she describes: Implementation of a fully working Unicode Collation Algorithm with only 82 of 190,377 tests failing 100% of Emoji 4.0 emoji are treated as a single grapheme, enabling MoarVM to advertise full Unicode 9.0/Emoji 4.0 text segmentation support.

Let me start out by apologizing for the delay in this posting, it's highly overdue; the question of whether or not funding was available turned out to be slightly more complicated than anyone anticipated.... As previously posted, one grant was posted in this period: Revitalize blogs.perl.org Voting results were: 5, 5, 5, 5, 4, 0, Abstain, No. This resulted in a an approval status, and I'm happy to announce the