The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the November round. Proposals in this round Proposer Requested Amount Link to the Details Ngangsi Richard Akumbo USD 6,938 Women in Technology, Cameroon Chad 'Exodist' Granum USD 2,500 Test::Simple Test::Stream stabilization and merge into perl-blead Chad 'Exodist' Granum USD 2,000 Test::Stream Manual Will Braswell USD 1,200 RPerl Alioth Benchmarks, Part 2 This proposal was carried over from the September round. Voting

Tony Cook writes: Approximately 42 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 7 patches were applied. Hours Activity 1.20 #120903 review, testing, apply to blead #120903 fix typo, half-write a perldelta entry and decide not to 0.97 #122368 review new patch, comment 0.65 #123831 review discussion, research and comment 2.52 #123867 review newest patches, testing #123867 review test results, apply to blead 2.98 #123981 travis modifications and testing #123981 review

The Grants Committee has received four grant proposals for the November round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on them. Review the proposals below and please comment there. The Committee members will start the voting process on November 28th and the conclusion will be announced by November 30th. If your comment does not appear in 24 hours, it is likely that

We have received the following grant application "Women in Technology, Cameroon". Please leave feedback in the comments field by November 27th, 2015. If your comment does not appear in 24 hours, contact me at tpf-grants-secretary at perl-foundation.org. A project proposal for the promotion of technology entrepreneurs, providing a technology hub and training the next generation of technology entrepreneurs by empowering women and girls. Name: Ngangsi Richard Akumbo Founder

We have received the following grant application "Test::Simple Test::Stream stabilization and merge into perl-blead". Please leave feedback in the comments field by November 27th, 2015. If your comment does not appear in 24 hours, contact me at tpf-grants-secretary at perl-foundation.org. Test::Simple Test::Stream stabilization and merge into perl-blead Name: Chad Granum Amount Requested: USD 2,500 Synopsis Stabilize and release the Test-Stream Test-Simple overhaul. Benefits to the Perl Community Test-Simple

We have received the following grant application "Test::Stream Manual". Please leave feedback in the comments field by November 27th, 2015. If your comment does not appear in 24 hours, contact me at tpf-grants-secretary at perl-foundation.org. Test::Stream Manual Name: Chad 'Exodist' Granum. Amount Requested: USD 2,000 Synopsis I am proposing to write a Test::Stream manual. The Test::Stream distribution already has very complete module documentation. The manual will build off

We have received the following grant application "RPerl Alioth Benchmarks, Part 2". Please leave feedback in the comments field by November 27th, 2015. If your comment does not appear in 24 hours, contact me at tpf-grants-secretary at perl-foundation.org. RPerl Alioth Benchmarks, Part 2 Name: Will Braswell Amount Requested: USD 1,200 Synopsis RPerl v1.2 has been released with a working N-body benchmark, as promised. Thanks to RPerl, we are

Dave Mitchell has requested an extension of $20,000 for his "Maintaining the Perl 5 Core":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2013/09/grant-application-maintaining-1.html grant. This will allow him to dedicate another 400 hours to this work. During this grant he sent weekly reports to the p5p mailing list as well as providing monthly summary reports that have been published on this blog, the most recent of which are linked below: "Report for Month 22":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/09/maintaining-the-perl-5-core-re-19.html "Report for Month 23":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/09/maintaining-the-perl-5-core-re-20.html

Dave Mitchell writes: I spent September mainly working on two things. First, I made the stack grow macros EXTEND and MEXTEND more robust against count truncating and wrapping, especially on platforms where the sizes of ints and pointers differ. The initial impetus to do this was a bug reported against the repeat operator in list mode on a platform with 32-bit pointers but 64-bit ints; but new compiler warnings generated

It has been quiet around the Act Voyager project... but some really important things are slowly coming together! To build a REST API for Act there are some frameworks that would be suitable... and none of them are perfect. And for a long time I had been pondering if I should use Dancer2 or the Web::Machine. Dancer2 is missing a lot of functionality desperately needed to make HTTP actually work.

The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the September round. Voting Results Proposal details Title Yes No Abstain Score RPerl Doc 8 1 0 28 5 5 4 4 3 3 3 1 RPerl Benchmarks 5 2 2 10 3 3 2 1 1 RPerl Operators 0 4 5 RPerl Medium-Magic 0 4 5 Plerd 0 7 2 Definition of the score is found in 3.2 of the rules.

Jonathan Worthington has requested an extension of $10,000 for his "Perl 6 Release Goals":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/04/grant-proposal-perl-6-release.html grant. The funds for this extension would come from the "Perl 6 Core Development Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_6_core_development_fund. The requested extension would allow Jonathan to devote another 250 hours to the project. Jonathan has provided a "detailed report":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/09/perl-6-release-goals-initial-g.html for the work done so far, which also provides details of the work he plans to carry out if the extension

Jonathan Worthington writes: In April 2015 I started working on a "grant":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/04/grant-proposal-perl-6-release.html from The Perl Foundation's "Perl 6 Core Development Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_6_core_development_fund. The grant was provided to enable me to dedicate much more time to the Perl 6 project than would otherwise have been possible, and it has indeed enabled this. My work has been, and continues to be, focused on enabling the release of the Perl 6 language along with

Tony Cook has requested an extension of $20,000 for his "Maintaining Perl 5":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2013/05/grant-application-maintaining.html grant. This grant has been running successfully since July 2013. The requested extension would allow Tony to devote another 400 hours to the project. The funds for this extension would come from the "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund. As well as posting reports on the p5p mailing list Tony provides detailed monthly reports, the most recent of

Tony Cook writes: Approximately 57 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 12 patches were applied. Hours Activity 0.83 #120826 re-work documentation patch #120826 re-test, apply to blead, close 4.99 #120903 first pass over documentation update #120903 more documentation, testing, comment with patch #120903 local edits, comment 0.53 #121200 check it's the same issue, merge tickets, comment 0.08 #123543 review and resolve 0.67 #123658 comment 0.17 #123867 comment 0.42 #123879

The Grants Committee has received four grant proposals for the September round. With the one which was carried over from the July round, we have five proposals to choose from. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on them. Review the proposals below and please comment there. The Committee members will start the voting process on September 28th and the conclusion will

We have received the following grant application "RPerl Medium-Magic Grammar". Please leave feedback in the comments field by September 27th, 2015. If your comment does not appear in 24 hours, contact me at tpf-grants-secretary at perl-foundation.org. As we have four proposals on RPerl this time, please use RPerl User Documentation proposal if your comment is about RPerl in general and not specific to this proposal. RPerl Medium-Magic Grammar Name:

We have received the following grant application "RPerl Operators". Please leave feedback in the comments field by September 27th, 2015. If your comment does not appear in 24 hours, contact me at tpf-grants-secretary at perl-foundation.org. As we have four proposals on RPerl this time, please use RPerl User Documentation proposal if your comment is about RPerl in general and not specific to this proposal. RPerl Operators Name: Will Braswell

We have received the following grant application "RPerl Alioth Benchmarks, Part 2". Please leave feedback in the comments field by September 27th, 2015. If your comment does not appear in 24 hours, contact me at tpf-grants-secretary at perl-foundation.org. As we have four proposals on RPerl this time, please use RPerl User Documentation proposal if your comment is about RPerl in general and not specific to this proposal. RPerl Alioth Benchmarks,

We have received the following grant application "RPerl User Documentation". Please leave feedback in the comments field by September 27th, 2015. If your comment does not appear in 24 hours, contact me at tpf-grants-secretary at perl-foundation.org. As we have four proposals on RPerl this time, please use this entry if your comment is about RPerl in general and not specific to each RPerl proposal. RPerl User Documentation Name: Will