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

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the June period. Bit of a sparse month. Fixed or otherwise closed a few security-related tickets and a few other misc bits and pieces, but spent quite a bit of time on perl-related but not TPF-grant-related stuff: reducing random smoke test failures and refactoring the numeric ops. Over the last month I have averaged 4 hours per

I am pleased to announce that Patrick Michaud's Hague Grant application for a "travel grant ":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/07/hague-grant-application-travel.html to attend "YAPC::EU":http://yapceurope.lv/ye2011/ has been accepted. I would like to thank everyone who provided feedback on this proposal.

We have received a request from Patrick Michaud asking for a travel grant to enable his attendance at "YAPC::EU":http://yapceurope.lv/ye2011/ which is taking place in Riga during August. As well as attending and "speaking":http://yapceurope.lv/ye2011/talk/3520 at the conference this would give Patrick the opportunity to participate in an all-day "Perl 6 hackathon":http://yapceurope.lv/ye2011/talk/3388 scheduled for the Saturday before the conference. Patrick is the lead architect, developer, and project manager for what is now

This week during "YAPC::NA":http://www.yapc2011.us/yn2011/ we announced the launch of a new fundraising drive to raise money for the "maintenance and improvement":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund of the Perl 5 core. I am delighted to announce that "Vienna.pm":http://vienna.pm.org/ have offered to kick-start this fund by offering matched funding for the first $10,000 of sponsorship that is raised. The Perl Foundation would like to thank Vienna.pm for their generous contribution.

Dear community, informing that after TPF Grants Committee vote on "Port pmtools to Perl 6":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/06/2011q2-grant-proposal-port-pmt.html grant proposal, it was not selected for funding. Next round for grants proposals will start in two weeks.

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the May period. I spent the month working on two bugs: making sv_clear non-recursive when freeing HVs 58:35 Total Numbers of tickets closed: bq. 2 tickets closed that have been worked on 1 tickets closed related to bugs that have been fixed 0 tickets closed that were reviewed but not worked on 3 Total Short Detail

This quarter, The Perl Foundation Grant Committee received one proposal for grant funding. The proposal is presented bellow, and it is open for discussion. Port pmtools to Perl 6 Name: Mark Leighton Fisher Amount Requested: $1200.00 Synopsis pmtools, the Perl module tools, are used by Perl 5 programmers every day to find, use, modify, and fix Perl modules. With over 90 modules already available for Perl 6, it is time