Tony Cook writes: Approximately 38 tickets were reviewed, and 10 patches were applied. is interesting in the number of things that were wrong with the first test in t/op/utf8cache.t. This was reported by Daniel Dragan where op/utfcache.t was producing a an error message, but was still passing: bc. 1..15 is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. ok 1 ok

Dave Mitchell writes: I spent most of my time last month making the stderr of the perl build and test process less noisy, and for blead to build, test, and be stderr-clean under ASan -fsanitize=undefined. Quite a few of the fixes are on cpan/ code, so I haven't pushed those to blead, but rather to the branches davem/cpan-warn and davem/cpan-undef. and I've opened tickets sent notifications to the relevant CPAN

The Grants Committee has received one grant proposal 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 25th, 2015. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced by January 31st. **Ado a rapid active commotion Name: Krasimir Berov

Here are updates of the running grants. Grant Report: Inline::C December 2014, Final. This grant has completed successfully and the payment is underway. It was a great contribution to the community and I enjoyed reading their continuous updates on their blog. Act Voyager long story Grant Report: Modern OO Programming in Perl Dec 2014 Perl::Lint Yet Another Static Analyzer for Perl5: We got an update and are discussing it with

Happy New Year from outer space... since the last report a lot has happened on our journey with Act-Voyager... So, let me try to write down the episode of this saga... In the months leading to the Act-hackathon there where two things being worked on... Firstly, there is now a 'Act-out-of-the-Box' that makes it super easy to start hacking on Act With three simple commands, any developer can be up

Happy New Year! 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 14th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback and conclude the acceptance

Paul Johnson has successfully completed his "Improving Devel::Cover grant":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/04/grant-application-improving-de.html. I would like to thank Paul and his grant managers for all their work. I would also like to thank those who support the "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund without your contributions we would not have been able to fund this project. Paul Johnson writes: In accordance with the terms of my grant from TPF this is the final report for

As Ingy says, Christmas is the time when we wrap things up. Inline::Module is nearly an officially-released reality. The last few weeks of progress can be found here. Highlights: "Autostubbing" feature generates Inline-calling stub modules in memory automagically Example module Alt::Acme::Math::XS in many flavors Lots of community interaction and support The committee will soon be tasked to vote on completion and payment. MAJ

Dave Mitchell writes: I spent nearly all my time last month developing a new tool for benchmarking perl itself, Porting/bench.pl. See "http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/222802":http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/222802 for the announcement. Summary bq. 2:00 /\G^/ seems abnormally slow 0:40 Memory leak in regex appears in 5.20.1> 0:43 Slow global pattern match in taint mode with input from utf8 41:22 create Porting/bench.pl 11:20 process p5p mailbox **56:05 TotaL As of 2014/11/30: since the beginning of the grant:

Grants Committee Year-End Report is here in PDF format. It's a bit on the formal side; I'll post a less formal one at my Grants Committee Secretary blog

Tony Cook writes: This is the first monthly report for my fourth grant. Approximately 58 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 11 patches were applied. is a bug that expresses itself as writing unexpected text after the text you expect to write, when writing to the Win32 console. This is caused by a bug in the Win32 WriteFile API, which returns the number of character written, rather than

The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the November round. Proposal in this round IO::All Redux, Ingy döt Net and David Oswald, USD 4,000 Voting Results Title Yes No Score IO::All Redux 2 5 Definition of the score is found in 3.2 of the rules. Details This grant was not approved. The majority of the committee members preferred to wait until the Inline::C grant completes. There was positive feedback

I am pleased to announce that Dave Mitchell's "recent request":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2014/10/grant-extension-request-dave-m.html for an extension of his "Maintaining the Perl 5 Core":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2013/09/grant-application-maintaining-1.html grant has been successful. This extension will allow Dave to continue with this work for another 400 hours. Many thanks to everyone who provided feedback on this application and to all those who continue to provide financial support to the "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund.

Ingy and David have made great strides this month on Inline::Module. Weekly updates can be found at the Ouistreet Inline blog. Highlights "We now have real, usable, open source software on GitHub, so the roadmap and problems will start being expressed as Issues." Support for ExtUtils::MakeMaker, Dist::Zilla, Zilla::Dist, and Module::Install based distributions for Inline. Well filled out Inline::Module::Tutorial According to David: "In brief, our primary objective now works for four

The Grants Committee has received one grant proposal for the November 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 there. The Committee members will start the voting process on November 26th and the conclusion will be announced by November 30th. IO::All Redux, Ingy döt Net and David Oswald, USD 4,000 Note that

We have received the following grant application "IO::All Redux". Please leave feedback in the comments field by November 25th, 2014. IO::All Redux Name Ingy döt Net David Oswald Amount Requested USD $4,000 Synopsis Rewrite IO::All to match the needs of 10 years experience. Benefits to the Perl Community IO::All is a Perl module that attempts to make all Input/Output operations in Perl, as simple, normal, and uniform

Grant recipients are required to publish a grant report every month. We got the following updates in October: Grant Report: Modern OO Programming in Perl Grant Report: Inline::C October 2014 ACT Voyager logbook 2014-10-01 ACT Voyager logbook 2014-09-01 We appreciate those who made great progress and kept the community updated during the autumn conference season. Just a reminder, CFP for the November round will be closed tomorrow.

Dave Mitchell writes: The main things I worked on this month were: set up the beginnings of a basic performance/optimisation testing infrastructure under t/perf/ investigated the performance of perl's string allocation and growing implementation, and came up with some suggested improvements

This is a bi-monthly reminder. 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 November 14th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback and conclude

Dave Mitchell writes: The main things I worked on this month were: finished off making the op_private OP flags and data be auto-generated from a single consistent source. I started to investigate how the allocation and growing of strings interacts with COW and the underlying malloc library implementation reviewing, discussing, fixing up and applying Syber's method call optimisation work bq. 3:52 Bleadperl v5.21.1-120-g34dadc6 breaks SYOHEX/Text-Xslate-3.3.3.tar.gz 1:14 Memory leak oddities with