The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period has come. This month's round is a little later than usual, due to the selection of a new GC Secretary This round will be slightly compressed, and we'll strive to get back on track for the next round. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will

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 things I did last month were: Firstly, fixing various issues with scopes in regexes. In particular, code blocks sometimes failed to undo localisations when backtracking. For example the $s below wasn't always being restored when the B part of the match

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 8 patches were applied 13.82 #122490 more merge conflicts #122490 more merge conflicts, track down warning sources #122490 track down warning sources, start merging test changes #122490 more test merging, testing,

Dave Mitchell writes: There are two main things I did in December First I sorted out infrastructure for ops which are called in boolean context. Currently PADHV and RV2HV ops are flagged specially if they are not only used in scalar context, but where the result they return will only ever be used as a boolean value; for example 'if This was originally done since a hash in scalar context

The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the January round. Proposal in this round Proposer Requested Amount Link to the Details Standardization, Test Coverage, and Documentation of Perl 6 I/O Routines USD 999 Proposal Voting Results Title Yes No Score Standardization, Test Coverage, and Documentation of Perl 6 I/O Routines 7 0 35 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 0 0 Definition of the score is found in

Dave Mitchell recently requested an extension of his Maintaining Perl 5 grant. I'm pleased to announce that the Board of Directors approved extension of another $20,000. 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 Maintenance Fund.

Tony Cook writes: Approximately 21 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 2 patches were applied. 4.33 #127149 re-work patch to fix a related issue, debugging #127149 debugging, comment on Encode #59 14.98 #127663 testing, minor polish, re-check, comment with patch #127663 reply to comment, work on additional patch for env control of the internal seed #127663 more internal seed env, comment with

Will Braswell has submitted his final report on his grant RPerl User Documentation, Part 2 The Grants Committee welcomes comments from the community before it votes on completion of the grant. MAJ RPerl User Documentation, Part 2, Final Report Deliverables Inch-stones Completeness Criteria RPerl User Documentation, Part 2, Final Report Name: Will Braswell Amount Requested: USD 1,600 Deliverables Deliverables for this grant proposal are: 1. Complete

Will Braswell reports that he has completed the deliverables for RPerl Docs #2: "Lots of big news for RPerl! First, Christmas saw the release of the new Perl-powered platform CloudForFree.org ;v1.0, codename Nimbostratus. Secondly, on New Years Day we released RPerl v2.4 codename Aurora. And last but not least, we are proud to announce the publication of Learning RPerl chapter 4, thereby completing part 2 of the TPF grant! Over

The Grants Committee has received one grant proposal Standardization, Test Coverage, and Documentation of Perl 6 I/O Routines for the January 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 January 23rd, 2017. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced approximately in

Dave Mitchell writes: I spent December: 1> looking for quick some wins on speeding up perl compile-time, using 'perl -MCPAN -e1' as a typical example of loading and compiling several .pm files. I tweaked Perl_yyparse and shaved ~2% off the compile time; then tweaked Perl_sv_gets and shaved another ~2% off, and also got a pleasing run-time boost for line reading, with reading a big list of words now ~8% faster

Dave Mitchell has requested an extension of $20,000 for his Maintaining the Perl 5 Core 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: Month 35 Month 36 Oct/Nov Before we make

Dave Mitchell writes: I spent last the last two months: reworking list assignment to be much faster in many cases. For example, this code is 33% faster in 5.25.7 compared with 5.24.0: my @a; for my $i @a @a trying to reduce the overhead of compile time a bit; freeing up some uses of SV flags; fixing various assorted bugs as listed below;

Grant Proposal: Learning Perl 6, a book from O'Reilly Media At the invitation of the TPF board, brian has withdrawn the grant proposal for the Learning Perl 6 book, and will submit a proposal to TPF on other ways for TPF to participate in enhancing the visibility of Perl 6. The Grants Committee had a general discussion on funding activities whose output is not free of charge. TPF has documentation

Chad Granun reports on his work on the Test2 Manual grant. The last month was devoted to: How to list the test tools in the modules dependencies; Tutorial for TODO tests; Tutorial for advanced test planning.

The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period has come. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, consider sending a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 January 15th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback and conclude acceptance by January 25th. To

The Perl Foundation received the following report from Tony Cook. Approximately 31 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 8 patches were applied. 0.37 #116945 review and comment #116945 try to review branch, comment 2.05 #122112 research, review code 3.66 #123638 work on patch, testing #123638 perldiag wording, work on regression test #123638 final tests, comment with patch 3.58 #126706 testing, research

Here is Will's report for November: Chapter 3 is now complete! The following new sections of Learning RPerl have been published: Section 3.10: Range Operator Section 3.11: Converting From Array To String Section 3.12: Program Control Using The for foreach Loops Section 3.12.1: The Range for Loop Section 3.12.2: The C-Style for Loop Section 3.12.3: The foreach Loop Section 3.13: Punctuation Variables Magic Section 3.14: reverse Operator

The Perl Foundation received the following report from Tony Cook in November. Note: This post was delayed due to the role changes within TPF. Apologies. Approximately 29 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 8 patches were applied. 1.52 #128996 testing vs 129879, seems to be the same, make public, apply patch 4.11 #128997 reproduce again, debugging #128997 move to public, comment, debug other issue, work

The Grants Committee has received one grant proposal for the November/December 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 December 12th, 2016. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced approximately in one week. Learning Perl 6, a book from O'Reilly Media