Name: Allyson Whitney-Caputo Email: Amount Requested: USD10,000 Synopsis Perl is used by companies and taught in computer science classes around the world, but the most up-to-date Perl documentation is only readily available in English. There have been attempts over the years to translate Perl's documentation into other languages, but all have been abandoned. The proposed grant would support the complete Turkish localization of this documentation.   Benefits to the

Nicholas Clark writes: A fair chunk of November was spent on disentangling pod/buildtoc Originally pod/buildtoc was a script run by the pumpking to rebuild pod/buildtoc.pod, and pod/buildtoc.pod was shipped in the distribution. In 2003 I extended it to add code to regenerate the lists of Pod files in various Makefiles, which were repetitive to maintain manually, and contained several errors where particular files were omitted. The assumption was that pod/buildtoc

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the November period. Spent it continuing my overhaul of the re_eval mechanism. This month I made literal code blocks work properly within runtime patterns, i.e. /$runtime I also made it so that qr//'s embedded within other patterns are no longer simply stringified and interpolated into the new pattern; instead, any code blocks within the qr are

I am happy to announce that Dr. Nicholas Clark's request for an extension of his "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Grant":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund, "Improving Perl 5":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/08/grant-proposal-improving-perl.html, has been accepted. This extension will allow Nicholas to spend another 400 hours working on the Perl 5 core. Since the "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund was created in June we have raised a total of $58,856. I would like to thank everyone who has supported this

Michael Schwern didn't finish his grant in the usual way, completing all the proposed milestones, but he was forced into it, as the Grants Committee decided a hard deadline for the grant We asked Schwern a final report, stating what was done, and what is missing. This report will be evaluated by the Grants Committee members, deciding whether Schwern should be paid for the full grant. The result is completely

We have received the following "Hague Grant":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ian_hague_perl_6_development_grants application from Jonathan "Duke" Leto. Before we vote on this proposal we would like to have a period of community consultation for 10 days. Please leave feedback in the comments or if you prefer send email with your comments to karen at perlfoundation.org. Name Jonathan "Duke" Leto Project Title PL/Perl6 Infrastructure and Improvements Synopsis The proposed grant would support the development of PL/Perl6,

The Grants Committee just decided to extend the deadline of grant proposals call. If you have any interesting project you think is relevant to the whole Perl community, and you need some cash as an incentive, this is your chance. New deadline, November 30th. Its that time of the year, again. The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $2000 in November 2011. In the

Nicholas Clark has requested an extension of $20,000 for his "Improving Perl 5 grant":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/08/grant-proposal-improving-perl.html. The grant, that is currently running, is on track to finish successfully at the end of November. Before we make a decision on this extension we would like to have a period of community consultation, which will last for seven days. Please leave feedback in the comments or if you prefer send email with your comments

I am pleased to announce that Carl Mäsak's Hague Grant application, "Implementation of macros in Rakudo":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/09/hague-grant-application-implem.html, has been accepted. I would like to thank everyone who provided feedback on this proposal. If you would like to help fund grants like this or any of our other projects please visit our "donation system":https://secure.donor.com/pf012/give.

Nicholas Clark writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the October period. automating git bisect: I continued the work I started at the end of September to automate the use of git bisect. My hope is that it's now easy enough for anyone who finds a core perl behaviour change that affects them to use it to find the commit that caused it and the associated

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the October period. Spent it mainly working on fixing literal code within runtime and qr//, e.g. /$runtime Over the last month I have averaged 15.4 hours per week. As of 2011/10/31: since the beginning of the grant: 86.4 weeks 957.8 total hours 11.1 average hours per week Since the recent extending of the

I am pleased to announce that Dave Mitchell's request to have his "Fixing Perl5 Core Bugs":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/02/grant-proposal-fixing-perl5-co.html grant "extended":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/09/fixing-perl5-core-bugs---grant-1.html has been successful. This extension would not have been possible without the generous contributions that have been made to the "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund. I would like to thank everyone who has supported this fund and in particular "Booking.com":http://www.booking.com/, "cPanel":http://www.cpanel.net/, "Dijkmat":http://www.dijkmat.nl/, "Liquid Web":http://www.liquidweb.com/, "Net-A-Porter":http://www.net-a-porter.com/, the "Oslo Perl Mongers":http://oslo.pm.org/, "perl-services.de":http://www.perl-services.de/, and the

Nicholas Clark writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the September period. Highlights are: POSIX: POSIX::Termios and POSIX::SigSet no longer crash with ithreads The XS code has been refactored to reduce the size of the shared object by about 12%, with no change in functionality. More POSIX functions now have tests. Storable: Should now pass tests with older version of Test::More Should now build all the

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the September period. Spent it mainly continuing to work on fixing the design flaws in re_evals I'm currently working on literal code within qr//. Over the last month I have averaged 6.5 hours per week. As of 2011/09/30: since the beginning of the grant: 82.4 weeks 892.9 total hours 10.8 average hours per week

Dave Mitchell has requested an extension of $20,000 for his "Fixing Perl5 Core Bugs":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/02/grant-proposal-fixing-perl5-co.html grant. During this grant he has sent weekly reports to the p5p mailing list as well as providing monthly summary reports that have been published on this blog. He has also provided the following summary of his work to date: In the course of the last year and a half, I have closed 68 bug tickets

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the August period. Spent it mainly working on fixing the design flaws in re_evals I now have it mostly fixed for the literal and non-qr case, in the branch davem/re_eval Over the last month I have averaged 14 hours per week. As of 2011/08/31: since the beginning of the grant: 77.4 weeks 864.2 total hours

We have received the following Hague Grant application from Carl Mäsak. Before we vote on this proposal we would like to have a period of community consultation. Please leave feedback in the comments or if you prefer send email with your comments to karen at perlfoundation.org. Name Carl Mäsak Project Title Implementation of macros in Rakudo Synopsis This project will provide Rakudo Perl with AST-based macros. Recently I started discussing

I am happy to announce that Dr. Nicholas Clark's grant proposal, "Improving Perl 5":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/08/grant-proposal-improving-perl.html, has been accepted. Thanks goes to the community members who took time to provide feedback on this proposal, to Jesse Vincent, and to all those who have made donations to the "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund.

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the July period. Spent it mainly working on fixing the design flaws in re_evals Over the last month I have averaged 6 hours per week. As of 2011/07/31: since the beginning of the grant: 73.0 weeks 799.0 total hours 10.9 average hours per week There are 101 hours left on the grant. Report for period 2011/07/01 to

Nicholas Clark has submitted a grant proposal under our new "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund. Before we vote on this proposal we would like to get feedback and endorsements from the Perl community. Please leave feedback in the comments or send email with your comments to karen at perlfoundation.org. Name: Dr. Nicholas Clark Contact Information: IRC: nicholas Email: nick@ccl4.org Project Title: Improving Perl 5 Synopsis: Free up one of the