The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period is upon us. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, please consider submitting a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 December 15th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback through December 22nd, and

The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the September 2018 round. There were two proposals this round, both of which were approved and funded. Voting results: Approved and funded: 8 yes votes with a score of 32 Feedback generally positive. Voting results: Approved and funded: 6 yes votes with a score of 26 Feedback positive. One member noted that this is the kind of work that benefits from grant

Original article was published on November 9, 2018 The overview page now shows all data displayed in the previous profiler's page as well as adds a "Start times of threads" chart. "GC" tab has been updated with sub-tabs to customise graphs using different display modes. The routines list now features a "goto" arrow for smooth and easy navigation. Read more at: Where did I leave my AT-KEYs? Where did I

"Overview" tab is now functional but in flux. The "Routines" tab has been improved to include sorting functionality for columns, a minimal view in the "Paths" sub tab and a new "Callers" sub tab. An "Allocations" top level tab has also been added. Read more at: Full Screen Ahead! Full Screen Ahead! Whew, it's been a long time since the last report already! Let's see what's new. Photo by

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the Sep/Oct 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 October 17th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that. MoarVM JIT Compiler Expression Backend Maturation Name: Bart Wiegmans Amount Requested: USD 7,000.

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the Sep/Oct round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on the proposal. Update: You have until October 17th! Review the proposal below and please comment here by October 10th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that. Future::AsyncAwait Name: Paul Evans Amount Requested: GBP 4,800

Apologies for delays this month from the original schedule. The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the Sep/Oct round. Future::AsyncAwait MoarVM JIT Compiler Expression Backend Maturation Before the Committee members vote on the proposals, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community. Review the proposals at their individual links and please comment there by October 10th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process

The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period is upon us. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, please consider submitting a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 September 30th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback through October 7th, and

The first public release! Code is now hosted in GitHub Please see the instructions on how to install and run The release features a renewed "Routines" tab. Please read Timo's blog post to know how it compares to the previous profiler: The first public release! The first public release! Hello esteemed readers, and thank you for checking in on my progress. Not a full month ago I showed off the

The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the July 2018 round. My apologies for the delay. There was one proposal this round, which was not approved. Perl as piano sheet music/compiler/synthesizer Voting results: Not approved: 5 no votes, 4 abstentions Concerns from the committee included a lack of clarity on whether this was a continuation of an existing project or new development, and issues with the proposed syntax, esp.

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the July/August round. Perl as piano sheet music/compiler/synthesizer Before the Committee members vote on the proposals, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community. Review the proposals at their individual links and please comment there by August 26th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced shortly after.

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the July/August 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 August 26th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that. Perl as piano sheet music/compiler/synthesizer Name: Yang Bo Amount Requested: USD 2,500 Synopsis Write a

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. I did very few hours last month. This was partly due to delays in getting my grant extended, and partly because I was busy with other things. SUMMARY: 2:00 RT #133352 Ancient Regex Regression 0:30 RT #133368 index optimisation in when

Timo has developed a shiny new UI for the tool. It displays thread-level garbage collection details. Read more at: Wow, check out this garbage Wow, check out this garbage Hello everyone! It's been more than a month since the last report, but I've been able to put hours in and get code out. And now I'll show you what's come out of the last weeks. The Garbage Collector One important

The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period is upon us. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, please consider submitting a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 August 5th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback through August 12th, and

The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the May 2018 round. My apologies for the delay. There were two proposals this round, but neither submission was approved. Introduction to Application Development with Perl 6 Voting results: Not approved: 4 no votes, 5 abstentions The committee is hesitant to fund a book at this time; there are several books on the market today; how would a freshman effort compare to

Jonathan Worthington has requested an extension of $10,000 for his Perl 6 Performance and Reliability Engineering grant. This will allow him to dedicate another 200 hours to this work. His previous work was successfully delivered as reported in the latest report. Jonathan writes: "A further grant extension will enable me to continue my work on Perl 6 performance and reliability. The 200 hours I just completed have seen both optimizations

Apologies for the delay; the GC is now conducting our voting for the May/June round and will post results next week. Thank you for your patience. Please look for the next Call for Proposals before the end of the month for the July/August round.

Timo is still not completely well. However, he has been able to make good progress: Optional parametres are now correctly logged Fixed a crash caused when the profiler is used on multithreaded code Read more at: No Major Breakthroughs No Major Breakthroughs Sadly, the time since the last post on this blog hasn't been fruitful with regards to the profiling project. There have been slight improvements to the profiler inside

I'm happy to note that the Curating and improving Perl6 documentation grant has submitted a final report, and the work has been accepted by the Committee. Thanks to JJ for his work on this project, and also to Mark for acting as grant manager.

I'm pleased to announce that the Complete YAML::PP grant is now itself completed, and the work has been accepted by the Committee. Thanks to Tina for her work, and to Mark for acting as grant manager.

JJ Merelo has completed work on his grant, and has published his final report. The Grants Committee is now reviewing and voting on payment. The Committee welcomes your comments as they deliberate. MAJ

Tina Müller has provided her final report of her work on her grant Complete YAML::PP. The Grants Committee is now evaluating and voting on final payment. The committee welcomes your comments here as they deliberate. Please comment here rather than on the gist. MAJ

Zoffix has posted his June Report. Most of the work on constants has been completed; Some bad math on zero-denominator rationals has been fixed. As Zoffix works through these issues, some work may find its way into ecosystem modules instead of core Perl 6. You can read all the details at his June 2018 blogs.perl.com posting Note that Zoffix will be taking the next month off to focus on some

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the May/June 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 June 16th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced the last week of June. Introduction to Application Development with Perl

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the May/June 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 June 16th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced the last week of June. App::rs The first reference counting CPAN

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposals for the May/June round. Introduction to Application Development with Perl 6 App::rs The first reference counting CPAN client Before the Committee members vote on the proposals, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community. Review the proposals at their individual links and please comment there by June 16th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that

We call him... The Closer. JJ made 324 commits in May on top of the 195 in April to https://github.com/perl6/doc, and is now as the top closer of issues in the repo. He also sketched out most of the missing pages in the the Perl6 Docs Roadmap. That enabled that albatross to be tossed overboard as well. JJ has also written a couple of metadocuments, describing patterns he has observed

The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period is upon us. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, please consider submitting a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 June 9th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback through June 16th, and

I'm happy to report that the Test2 Manual has been accepted as complete by the Committee. Thanks to Chad for seeing this grant through, and to Alberto for acting as grant manager.

Zoffix has already dug in on his grant, making some decent progress in the first month. Taking a test driven approach and implementing tests for the work in branches, he's identified some issues that will cause him to modify the original approach. You can read all the details at his May 2018 blogs.perl.com posting

JJ has made impressive progress on the backlog of documentation issues as part of his grant. He has already addressed and closed twice as many issues as all those closed by others. In doing so, he has committed about as many times as all other contributors to the repo. While addressing issues, JJ performed some additional housecleaning and put in some quality time at StackOverflow. You can read all the

The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the March 2018 round. There was one proposal this round: Voting results: Approved and funded: 7 yes votes with a score of 31 No specific feedback is available. Next Round We accept proposals throughout the year; our next round of voting would be in May You can submit proposals now. If you want to help with funding and increase our budget, please

Follows the report by Chad Granum for his grant: Test2 Manual. Test2 Manual grant complete This is a completion report for the Test2 manual grant. Deliverables Test2::Manual Original description: A brief introduction and table of contents. Completed form: Jumping off point with a map of the manual layout/table of contents. Test2::Manual::Tooling Original description: This section will cover writing test tools. This would be a

Tinita spent about 25 hours coding YAML::PP during March. She emitted a production release at YAML::PP 0.006, which incorporates items from her previous reports, adding Writer and Representer objects, a nice Dumper, and cyclic reference detection. In a spirit of multi-cultural outreach and understanding, she also made her first PR to PyYAML. You can read all the details in her latest report. MAJ

Perl 6: Bugfixing and Performance of Rationals Fixing Constraints on Constants Name: Zoffix Znet Amount Requested: USD 1,999 Synopsis The proposal is to perform two pieces of work on the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler along with a third bonus piece: 1. Implement support for type constraints on constants and polish some of the rough edges with and constants initializer calls. 2. Fix several bugs and a race

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the March/April round. Perl 6: Bugfixing and Performance of Rationals Fixing Constraints on Constants Before the Committee members vote on the proposals, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community. Review the proposals at their individual links and please comment there by April 7th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion

The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period is upon us. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, please consider submitting a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 March 27th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback through April 3rd, and

Timo has made good progress and is writing about it. Please see: Delays and Delights Delays and Delights Hi, my name is timotimo and I'm a Perl 6 developer. I've set up this blog to write reports on my TPF Grant Before the actual report starts, I'd like to issue an apology. In between my grant application and the grant being accepted I developed a bit of RSI that lasted

Tinita spent about 20 hours coding YAML::PP this month. To her growing YAML bibliography, she has added "Strings in YAML To Quote or not to Quote". Here Tina shows very clearly that Ingy's ultimate goal was to write the Kobiyashi Maru of format specifications.

The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the January 2018 round. There were six proposals in this round. Curating and improving Perl6 documentation Voting results: Approved and funded: 5 yes, 1 abstention, 1 no with a score of 15 Some voters expressed concern about the comments/feedback posted on the grant. It is our hope that the requestor will work closely with the community when implementing this grant. Future grants

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the January/February 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 February 20th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced the last week of February. Perl-Based CloudForFree.org Platform Name: John

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposals for the January/February round. Perl Camp in Democratic Republic of Congo Curating and improving Perl6 documentation MySQL Support In RPerl Compiler List Operators In RPerl Compiler OS Installation Packages for RPerl Compiler Perl-Based CloudForFree.org Platform Before the Committee members vote on the proposals, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community. Review the proposals at their individual links and

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the January/February 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 February 20th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced the last week of February. OS Installation Packages for RPerl Compiler

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the January/February 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 February 20th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced the last week of February. List Operators In RPerl Compiler Name:

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the January/February 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 February 20th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced the last week of February. MySQL Support In RPerl Compiler Name:

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the January/February 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 February 20th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced the last week of February. Curating and improving Perl6 documentation Name:

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the January/February 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 February 20th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced the last week of February. Please note that this particular request

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 thing I did last month was to fix a bunch of issues with tr///c. Initially I was just working on a particular ticket, then noticed that tr///c was almost completed untested in core, and had a bunch of issues, and I

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 29 tickets were reviewed, and 6 patches were applied 34.99 #127743 try to work up makefile rules for new stack limit handling #127743 more makefile rules, work on fetching config from var instead of a constant #127743

Jonathan Worthington recently requested an extension of his Perl 6 Performance and Reliability Engineering grant. I'm pleased to announce that the Board of Directors approved extension of another $10,000. It'll allow him to dedicate another 400 hours to this work. Additional $210 of expense was approved to cover the wire tranfer fee from the past payments and the next payment. I would like to thank the community members who took

This is a monthly report by Zefram on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. The hours that I have worked in 2018-01 pursuant to my TPF core maintenance grant are as follows. 9h33m review mail 5h31m review tickets 2h40m Bleadperl v5.27.6-206-g16ada235c3 breaks JGAMBLE/Algorithm-QuineMcCluskey-0.16.tar.gz 2h14m Subroutine doesn't create elements. 1h57m Cwd: different return

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 4 tickets were reviewed or worked on. 22.84 #127743 32-bit build warnings/build issues #127743 finish up 32-bit testing, commits, work on other unaddressed Storable issues, 64-bit frozen data #127743 handle 32-bit frozen data as unsigned, add support

Timo Paulssen is recovering from a repetitive strain injury, and has not been able to start work on the grant yet. While waiting for the condition to get better, Timo has been watching videos related to the technologies he will be using. Moving apartments in January has been another issue bothering Timo. Timo is very eager to start working on the grant as soon as he is able to.

Tinita spent about 10 hours coding YAML::PP this month. Additional integration of YAML Schemas into YAML::PP is percolating, and she is making deep dives into the YAML 1.2 spec where angels fear to tread. Read her latest report for details. MAJ

The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period is upon us. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, consider submitting a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 February 11th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback through February 18th, and conclude

Jonathan Worthington has requested an extension of $10,000 for his Perl 6 Performance and Reliability Engineering grant. This will allow him to dedicate another 200 hours to this work. His previous work was successfully delivered as reported in the latest report. This funding will come from the Perl 6 Core Development Fund. Will Coke Coleda agreed to continue the grant manager's role. Before we make a decision on this extension

This is a monthly report by Zefram on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. The hours that I have worked in 2017-12 pursuant to my TPF core maintenance grant are as follows. 22h40m socket SOCK_CLOEXEC 21h58m review tickets 16h19m review mail 12h47m smartmatch 11h19m Perl segfaults in BEGIN, write to null pointer,

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. Two tickets were worked on. 17.98 #127743 work out a practical fix, work on implementation #127743 finish implementation testing #127743 commit, work on fix for network retrieves of large objects, fix some -DDEBUGGING build issues #127743 build issues,

More good stuff this month from Tinita on the grant Complete YAML::PP. She explains the YAML schema concept and its evolving flavors in this interesting post. This lays the foundation for understanding the schema features added to the YAML::PP loader. Tina also fixed a couple of problems in YAML::XS. An important one security-wise is that now you can turn off loading into Perl objects by default when using !!perl/.. schema

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. I spent last month mainly: Fixing some more issues thrown up by the new OP_MULTICONCAT optimisation; Working on a few fuzzer tickets 7:01 BBC: MULTICONCAT: Mail-SpamAssassin-3.4.1 affected too 4:27 OP_MULTICONCAT failure on Z/OS 1:55 RT #132187 heap-buffer-overflow in Perl_fbm_instr

Tinita, the one-woman YAML ecosystem, continues apace with her grant Complete YAML::PP. Find her latest report on her blog. She is making headway on some of the cooler features of YAML: flow style, anchors, and special tags. Legit boolean behavior is now implemented in YAML::XS. The blog post provides a nice rundown of the 4 ways to quote in YAML. Wondering what all the fuss is about? check out Tina's

This is the first report from Zefram on his Perl 5 grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. The hours that I have worked in 2017-11 pursuant to my TPF core maintenance grant are as follows. 30h25m smartmatch 15h15m state 12h08m review tickets 9h54m review mail 8h26m no warnings "module name" 3h46m negative-size-param in

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. I didn't do much TPF grant work for the last two months, as I was mainly working on OP_MULTICONCAT, which was funded by Booking.com. That's also why there's been a dearth of weekly reports. The main thing I did was making a few

As part of the Perl 6 core development fund, Jonathan Worthington has completed another 200 hour block of hours, and his report of what was completed follows the break. Many thanks to the TPF sponsors of this and other grants. If you're interested in supporting work like this, please donate: http://donate.perlfoundation.org/ Grant Completion Report: Perl 6 Performance and Reliability Engineering At the end of July, I was granted a 200

Tony Cook recently requested an extension of his Maintaining the Perl 5 Grant. I'm pleased to announce that the Board of Directors approved extension of another $20,000. It'll allow him to dedicate another 400 hours to this work. 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

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 23 tickets were reviewed, and 7 patches were applied 0.33 #122807 review discussion 0.45 #124349 review discussion and apply patch 0.40 #125619 review discussion, research, briefly comment 0.25 #125760 review discussion, add to 5.30 blockers for make

The Grants Committee has expended its budget for the period ending with 2017. In accordance with the TPF rules of operation grants evaluations are stalled until further notice. I'm expecting that we'll be able to re-open evaluations starting in the January 2018 period. Thanks to all the TPF sponsors that make the grants process possible. Please consider becoming one and donating at http://donate.perlfoundation.org/ If you have further questions, please contact

Tina has put >50hrs in on YAML::PP, as she describes in her blog post. Some highlights: 23 tests added to the standard test suite Updates to the YAML Test Matrix Under-hood work on YAML::XS boolean handling and YAML flow-style. MAJ

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 47 tickets were reviewed, and 7 patches were applied. 7.13 #122112 work on a fix #122112 more work on a fix #122112 debugging #122112 debugging #122112 debugging, look for a different approach 2.31 #124256 re-work patch

Tony Cook has requested an extension of $20,000 for his Maintaining the Perl 5 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: August 2017 July 2017 May/June 2017 Before we make

The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the September 2017 round. There were two proposals in this round. Rakudo Perl 6 performance analysis tooling Performance Analysis Voting results: 7 Yes votes, and 2 abstentions with a score of 33 This grant is approved, and will be funded. Start Act Voyager Voyager Voting results: 2 Yes votes, 1 abstention, and 6 No votes This grant is not approved. Concerns were

I'm happy to announce that the GC has voted to accept the completion of the grant http://news.perlfoundation.org/2017/04/grant-proposal.html by Samantha McVey

This is a bookkeeping post regarding the 2014 Grant "Start ACT Voyager". Due to the Grant Committee's rules of operations, this grant was cancelled due to lack of progress in August of 2017.

Tinita has already achieved much in a short time on her grant to Complete YAML::PP. She has provided full details at blogs.perl.org. Some highlights: Produced YAML::PP::Lexer, ::Parser, ::Dumper, ::Emitter, ::Reader, ::Highlight Continued work towards full YAML 1.2 compliance Allows Unicode chars Bugfixes, refactors and miscellaneous doodads Code is on github. You're wondering "What's so cool about this?" Check out Tinita's talk where you can learn all about the secret features

Samantha has submitted her last grant update and her final review of her work for the consideration of the community and the Grants Committee. Highlights for the latest month of work include: Her Unicode Collation Algorithm is fully merged into MoarVM She has released full UCA documentation Prepends are handled with more generality, so that edge cases in certain ops now work properly Bugs in encoding into and handling UTF8-C8

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the September/October 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 September 26th, 2017. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced the first week of October. Act Voyager Name: Theo van

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the September/October 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 September 26th, 2017. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced the first week of October. Rakudo Perl 6 performance analysis tooling

In the last two months Chad has been working mostly on the Test2 code than in the documentation itself. This way he can document the final version of the API and do not need to, later, rewrite the docs. This work included the new event system. Chad released the stable version of Test2 two days ago, and therefore he is now resuming his work on the documentation.

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. I didn't do much TPF work last month; I was mainly instead doing work funded by Booking.com. What time I did spend was mainly fixing a few 'blead breaks perl' tickets. SUMMARY: 1:34 RT #131938 BBC Imager-1.005.tar.gz 2:00 RT #131942 BBC

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 42 tickets were reviewed, and 9 patches were applied 0.53 #124368 retesting, apply to blead 4.13 #127663 testing, fix issues on Win32, more testing #127663 more testing, push smoke branch 0.57 #128263 retest, apply to blead 1.08

The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period is upon us. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, consider submitting a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 September 16th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback through September 23rd, and conclude

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. I spent June mainly: finishing off the heavy reworking of perl's internal sprintf implementation. This has now been merged into blead. It contains about 100 commits which fixes bugs, audits the code for possible integer overflows, makes the code simpler

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 3 patches were applied 0.12 #p5p POSIX 2008 locale api discussion with khw 4.00 #124368 work up a decent test, find a difference between threaded/non-threaded, work up a patch, testing #124368 more testing,

In her excellent overview of Unicode presented at YAPC-EU, Samantha gives us her take on Perl6 Unicode: “Torture the implementers for the sake of the users.” Perl6 Unicode users will certainly have some wonderfully easy access to deep Unicode magic thanks to her work. But reading her blog, I get a distinct impression of delight, rather than torture... In her complete blog post, she describes, among other details: Implementation of

The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the July 2017 round. There was one proposal in this round. Complete YAML::PP Complete YAML::PP Voting results: 8 Yes votes, and 1 abstention with a score of 40 This grant is approved, and will be funded. Tina's previous work in this area and enthusiasm were mentioned. Next Round Our next round will be in September; we've been running a little late in

The inchstones are falling like 1F030—1F09F as Samantha makes further progress on her grant to improve the robustness of Unicode support in Rakudo. In her complete blog post, she describes: Implementation of a fully working Unicode Collation Algorithm with only 82 of 190,377 tests failing 100% of Emoji 4.0 emoji are treated as a single grapheme, enabling MoarVM to advertise full Unicode 9.0/Emoji 4.0 text segmentation support.

Let me start out by apologizing for the delay in this posting, it's highly overdue; the question of whether or not funding was available turned out to be slightly more complicated than anyone anticipated.... As previously posted, one grant was posted in this period: Revitalize blogs.perl.org Voting results were: 5, 5, 5, 5, 4, 0, Abstain, No. This resulted in a an approval status, and I'm happy to announce the

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the July/August 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 August 14th, 2017. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced approximately one week after public comments. Complete YAML::PP Name:

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. May report Approximately 12 tickets were reviewed. 0.57 in @INC follow-up for File::Fetch #11 1.98 #128207 debugging #128207 more debugging, comment 0.53 #130591 review discussion, provide updated patch 0.17 #131000 review discussion 1.31 #131062 work on a

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. It'll allow him to dedicate another 333 hours to this work. 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

I am pleased to announce that the TPF Board of Directors approved the grant proposal Zefram maintaining the Perl 5 Core. This will allow him to dedicate 200 hours to the work. I appreciate TPF donors who made this possible and all the people who gave us feedback on this grant. I hope Zefram's work will benefit the community.

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 August 5th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback through August 12th, and conclude acceptance

The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the May 2017 round There was one proposal in this round, which was approved. I am currently working with the treasurer to verify funding. Voting results: 6 Yes votes, 1 No Vote, and 1 abstention with a score of 24 Big thanks to André Walker for his patience as I become accustomed to the GC workflow. I am very hopeful that funding

Jonathan Worthington's request to extend Perl 6 Performance and Reliability Engineering by $10,000 has been approved. This will allow him to dedicate another 200 hours to this work. I appreciate TPF donors who made this possible and all the people who gave us feedback on this grant. I hope Jonathan's work will continue to benefit the community.

brian d foy reported that his grant is completed. brian gave us a list of talks/movies as follows: Amsterdam.pm on June 8 French Perl Workshop on June 10 London.pm on June 29 PerlTricks.com article I appreciate TPF donors who made this possible, all the people who gave us feedback on this grant, and brian, who delivered the quality results. I am personally looking forward to brian's talk at NY.pm, which

Samantha continues to address the addition of Unicode features and long-standing Unicode bugs in her grant to improve the robustness of Unicode support in Rakudo. In her complete blog post, she describes: the Unicode collation algorithm in a very readable overview, and her improvements to enable customizable collation at all three main collation levels support for the Prepend property in code that avoids grapheme breaking, leading to increases in

In the The Perl Conference month, Chad reports some improvements in the documentation, that is available at http://test-more.github.io/Test2-Manual/, with some new sections. He also used this manual to give two presentations at YAPC.

brian d foy's Perl 6 Travel Grant Proposal has been approved. The payment will be made after Presentation at Amsterdam.pm and London.pm Slides are published Articles are published based on the talks Recorded presentation is published Thank you for those who gave us valuable feedback and thank you for the TPF donors for making it happen.

Jonathan Worthington has requested an extension of $10,000 for his Perl 6 Performance and Reliability Engineering grant. This will allow him to dedicate another 200 hours to this work. His previous work was successfully delivered as reported in the This funding will come from the Before we make a decision on this extension we would like to have a period of community consultation that will last for seven days. Please