Jonathan has successfully completed his first grant extension of his "Perl 6 Release Goals":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/04/grant-proposal-perl-6-release.html grant. He has provided the following report and is asking for another extension to continue with this work. 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 leave feedback in the comments or, if you prefer, email your comments to

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

Dave Mitchell writes: I spent August mainly working on two things. First, I continued working on re-jigging how scope entry and exit works I had already heavily reworked how subs are called, making a bare sub call: bc. sub f f use about 1/3 less instructions, branches etc. I've now made the more general loop and pp_enter context stuff use the new regime too

I am pleased to announce that the "recent grant application":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/08/perl-6-hague-grant-application-1.html from the Swiss Perl Workshop team has been successful. I would like to thank everyone who took the time to comment on this grant application. If you would like to help fund Perl 6 development please consider "donating":https://secure.donor.com/pf012/give to our new "Perl 6 Core Development Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_6_core_development_fund.

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 September 18th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback and conclude acceptance by October 2nd. The

Dave Mitchell writes: I spent July mainly working on two things. First, I continued to work on the whole issue of how subroutines are invoked and returned from, and especially how the various perl stacks are manipulated during this time, i.e. all the PUSHBLOCK/PUSHSUB stuff. I also started extending the work to other context types, such as loops. I have mainly concentrated on removing unnecessary fields from the CXt_SUB context

Tony Cook writes: Approximately 61 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 10 patches were applied. Hours Activity 0.82 #116054 review, close 120208, comment 2.98 #118127 review and briefly comment #118127 irc discussion, research, comment 1.03 #119515 review discussion, testing, apply to blead 1.38 #120826 review, review code, write up some documentation #120826 review, research, comment with patch 0.60 #122096 review and comment 0.13 #122629 review new discussion 0.50 #123599

We have received the following Hague Grant application from the organisers of the Swiss Perl Workshop. Before we vote on this proposal we would like to have a period of community consultation for 7 days. Please leave feedback in the comments or if you prefer send email with your comments to karen at perlfoundation.org. Name: Matthias Bloch, Roman Baumer, Dirk Deimeke Project Title: Perl 6 Hackathon at the Swiss Perl

Tony Cook writes: Approximately 65 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 14 patches were applied. Hours Activity 0.45 #122281 review, testing, apply to blead 0.48 #122405 review discussion and comment 1.22 #122872 review discussion, review latest patch and comment 0.27 #123264 retest and apply to blead 1.17 #123398 review discussion and code, testing, push to blead, comment 1.58 #123440 review and update, apply to blead and comment 1.18 #123658

Dave Mitchell writes: I spent June mainly continuing to work on the whole issue of how subroutines are invoked and returned from, and especially how the various perl stacks are manipulated during this time. I also fixed some more Coverity and smoke issues. Summary bq. 55:39 #124156: death during unwinding causes crash 1:11 make /\C/ an error 15:45 process p5p mailbox 10:01 silence compiler warnings **82:36 Total bq. 4.3 weeks

The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the July round. Proposal in this round Document and release Plerd, an open-source lightweight blogging engine, Jason McIntosh, USD 2,000 Revitalize blogs.perl.org, Jeffrey Goff and Amalia Pomian, USD 3,000 Voting Results Title Yes No Score Plerd 4 3 5 2 1 1 1 blogs.perl.org 8 0 35 5 5 5 5 5 5 4 1 Definition of the score is found in

The Grants Committee has received two grant proposals for the July round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on the proposals. Review the proposals below and please comment there. The Committee members will start the voting process on July 27th and the conclusion will be announced by August 2nd. If your comment does not appear in 24 hours, it is likely

_ We are again reviewing this proposal. Please leave feedback by September 27, 2015._ We have received the following grant application "Document and release Plerd, an open-source lightweight blogging engine". Please leave feedback in the comments field by July 26th, 2015. If your comment does not appear in 24 hours, contact me at tpf-grants-secretary at perl-foundation.org. Document and release Plerd, an open-source lightweight blogging engine Name: Jason McIntosh Amount

We have received the following grant application "Revitalize blogs.perl.org". Please leave feedback in the comments field by July 26th, 2015. If your comment does not appear in 24 hours, contact me at tpf-grants-secretary at perl-foundation.org. Revitalize blogs.perl.org Name: Jeffrey Goff, Amalia Pomian Amount Requested: USD 3000 Synopsis blogs.perl.org is in need of replacement. Evozon would like to offer a customized instance of PearlBee in its place, with source

Tony Cook writes: Approximately 37 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 2 patches were applied. bulk88's patch in adds support for building perl in parallel on Win32 using dmake's -P option. I've spent some time trying to improve it, but ended up running into limitations in dmake, in particular it seems to call child makefiles with -S preventing any parallel builds in the child. If a GNU make makefile

Theo has published a blog post on builtinperl, which I think gives a good impression about progress on Act Voyager as well: http://blog.builtinperl.com/post/yapc-na-act-voyager Check it out! #act-voyager

Dave Mitchell writes: I spent the month doing two main things: fixing 5.22 blockers, and once there were no blockers left, I began work on looking at the whole issue of how subroutines are invoked and returned from, and especially how the various perl stacks are manipulated during this time. It turns out that 6 stacks are involved, and there is lots of duplicated code, difficulties with stacks being doubly

The previous round got no proposals and we seriously need one. It doesn't have to be a huge Perl project. Do you have anything in mind you want to spend a few weekends to work to help the Perl 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

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 19":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/05/maintaining-the-perl-5-core-re-16.html "Report for Month 17

Tony Cook writes: Approximately 40 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 4 patches were applied. This month blead allowed patches only for blockers, so there won't many patches applied to blead. I spent much of my time working on blockers, both trying to solve them in blead, or to report issues to CPAN maintainers whose modules were broken. Hours Activity 0.20 #122136 review cpan tickets and update 2.92 #122159

The Act Voyager project has not come to a halt, although it has been a bit silent. My apologies for those who had been waiting last month for the report. Life has taken some turns, in my favour, and thanks to Rick Deller from Eligo, I got a nice job at Broadbean technologies in London and yes, moved from my lovely little hometown to the Perl capital of the United

Re: Call For Grant Proposals We have not got grant proposals. We are extending the deadline until the end of May. If you need ideas, rjbs's article is still relevant apart from the Gist one. If you have any questions, let us know at tpf-grants-secretary at perl-foundation.org.

Dave Mitchell writes: I spent the month mainly fixing issues that were 5.22 blockers. Summary bq. 2:18 Apparent failure to localize %^H 2:13 Bleadperl v5.21.6-89-gd648ffc breaks autobox 4:33 S_no_op: Assertion `s oldbp' failed 1:25 Perl_pp_substcont: Assertion failed 1:21 Unable to build 64-bit blead using gcc-4.8.2 1:21 Perl_ck_stringify: Assertion ->op_sibling> 10:57 Perl_sv_clear: Assertion 0:37 Perl_sv_2pv_flags: Assertion 2:09 null ptr deref Perl_cv_forget_slab 0:20 fix t/uni.parser.t under EBCDIC 10:02 more op_siblings stuff 7:27

Tony Cook writes: Approximately 25 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 2 patches were applied. This was a short month since my old grant ran out, and a new grant started. was interesting to me because is illustrated how perl tracks which globs a given @ISA is present in and how that was broken in this case. Each @ISA has isa magic. If the @ISA is only present

Contribute to Perl and get some 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 May 15th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback and

I am happy to announce that Jonathan Worthington's grant proposal, "Perl 6 Release Goals":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/04/grant-proposal-perl-6-release.html, has been accepted. This is the first grant awarded under the new "Perl 6 Core Development Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_6_core_development_fund. Thanks goes to the community members who took time to provide feedback on this proposal. I would also like to thank Patrick Michaud and Liz Mattijsen who have agreed to help with the management of this grant.

Dave Mitchell writes: I spent the month mainly fixing issues reported by the Coverity static code analyser, and fixing assorted bugs that were in the main 5.22 blockers. Some notable highlights: Coverity reported an issue related to MEM_WRAP_CHECK although it turned out to be harmless, looking at it gave me an idea to make the wrap check be constant-folded at compile time more often, and since this macro Copy etc>

We have received the following Hague Grant application from Bart Wiegmans. 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: Bart Wiegmans Project Title: Advancing the MoarVM JIT Synopsis: Implement an advanced code generation algorithm for the MoarVM JIT compiler,

For the March round, we got no applications. The next round will be in May. Grant updates: Start ACT Voyager by Theo van Hoesel: Enjoy his report and give feedback April 1 Act Perl::Lint Yet Another Static Analyzer for Perl5 by Taiki Kawakami: We got an update and the report will be posted next week. Modern Object Oriented Programming in Perl by Toby Inkster: No update from the grantee. The

Jonathan Worthington has submitted a grant proposal under our new "Perl 6 Core Development Fund.":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_6_core_development_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: Jonathan Worthington Project Title: Work towards the 2015 Perl 6 release goals Synopsis: Fund a leading Rakudo Perl 6 and

I am pleased to announce the launch of a new fundraising drive to raise money for Perl 6 development. Its immediate focus is the target of releasing a Perl 6 language specification along with a conforming implementation in 2015; beyond this, funds will be used to support maintenance and improvement of Perl 6 implementation. The initial goal is to raise $25,000 to fund the work of Jonathan Worthington. Jonathan is

Since the beginning of the year, some smaller steps had been made and things are looking good! First of all the the database schema had been changed to provide some additional things on request of some organisers. Now I realise that I also need to make new versions of the Act-out-of-the-Box vagrant-image once in a while. The DBIx::Class has been updated accordingly and it all works like a charm Secondly,

I had flu with a high fever for a week. Unfortunately this happened in the final week of the March grant acceptance period. Apologies I couldn't respond to inquiries in timely fashion. As we haven't received grant applications in this period, we will extend the deadline to March 22nd. To apply for a grant of up to $10,000, please refer to my previous post to understand how.

Tony Cook writes: Approximately 55 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 10 patches were applied. shows perl's dependency on other system tools, in this case there were two issues when using GCC 5.0. First, with GCC 5.0, by default the pre-processor with generate #line entries showing the origin of the definition of a macro that's been replaced, so the pre-processor was producing output from: bc. "EDOM" something like:

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 61 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 11 patches were applied. There were no especially interesting tickets this month. Hours Activity 1.60 cpan #101078 create/test bisect script and start bisect cpan #101078 review bisect results, comment 0.27 #120357 research and comment 0.52 #122432 review status #122432 summarize status of cpan dists 2.25 #122443 testing, polish 1.48 #122730 bang head against dzil, try some simple fixes,

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 March 15th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback and conclude the acceptance by March 30th.

I am pleased to announce that Ricardo Signes' recent grant application to cover the costs of his travel to the "QA Hackathon":http://act.qa-hackathon.org/qa2015/ has been successful. I would like to thank everyone who provided feedback on this grant. The grant was awarded from our "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund. If you wish to contribute to this fund please go to our donation system or contact karen perlfoundation.org The "QA Hackathon":http://act.qa-hackathon.org/qa2015/ is

Dave Mitchell writes: At the start of the month I continued work on making the stderr of builds less noisy, and for blead to build, test, and be stderr-clean under ASan -fsanitize=undefined. At the end of this work I raised around 26 RT and github tickets with fixes for cpan/ distributions; currently around 9 of these have been merged back into blead and a further 4 have been merged upstream

We have received the following Perl 5 grant application from Ricardo Signes. Before we vote on this proposal we would like to have a period of community consultation that will last seven days. Please leave feedback in the comments or if you prefer send email with your comments to karen at perlfoundation.org. Name: Ricardo Signes Project Title: Perl QA Hackathon 2015 Amount Requested: $1200 Synopsis This grant will be used

Tony Cook writes: Approximately 36 tickets were reviewed, and 5 patches were applied. I spent some time this month working on getting minitest working on Win32. In 2004 the Win32 makefiles were changed to use harness instead of TEST for minitest, presumably at some time after that Test::Harness was changed to load IO unconditionally, breaking minitest on Win32. So I switched minitest back to using TEST and then worked through

The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the January round. Proposal in this round Ado a rapid active commotion Krasimir Berov, USD 4,500 Voting Results Title Yes No Score Ado 1 4 Definition of the score is found in 3.2 of the rules. Details While it is always difficult to make decision on grant proposals, this was a particularly tough one. We understand this is a serious project with

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

As time moves on the Voyage gradually moves forward. In the proposal I sent, I already knew that I would not be able to dedicate any time until the last week of September. So, what did happen until now: The Apache mod_perl nightmare ACTually, let me take you back december 2013. After I visited the London Perl Workshop, I went to the French hackathon Patch -p1 in Paris to see

Grant Manager's note: please excuse the delay in posting these progress reports. Future progress reports will be more in time. This is the progress report about August 2014. As in the original proposal for the Grant, it was stated I would not start before the second half of september because of a project that is very tight on the deadline. However that does not mean that nothing happens. On the

I am pleased to announce that Tony Cook's "Maintaining Perl 5":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2014/03/grant-extension-request-from-t.html grant has been extended by another 400 hours. I would like to thank everyone who responded to the call for comments and who provided feedback on this grant extension. I would also like to thank all those who continue to provide financial support to the "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund.

Dave Mitchell writes: The main things I worked on this month were: making the op_private OP flags and data be auto-generated from a single consistent source. Its actually complete now, although wasn't at the end of last month, which is the period this report covers. some more work on my OP_MULTIDEREF optimisation. The basic optimisation works, but it still needs work on being handled by B::* and by the use

Grant recipients are required to publish a grant report every month. Here are what we got in September: Modern Object Oriented Programming in Perl Perl::Lint TPF also got a grant report on "Start ACT Voyager" so I expect it to be published shortly. If you have any comments/suggestions for each grant, please get in touch with them. We appreciate their hard work and we look forward to seeing the next

The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the September round. Proposals in this round Nile Visual Web App Framework Separating Code From Design Multi Lingual And Multi Theme, Ahmed Amin Elsheshtawy, USD 10,000 IO::All Redux, Ingy döt Net and David Oswald, USD 3,000 Inline::C Module Support, Ingy döt Net and David Oswald, USD 2,000 Pegex Grammar for YAML, Ingy döt Net and David Oswald, USD 3,500 Swim Pod, Ingy

Toby Inkster reports on his book-writing progress in his latest blog post Highlights: The material is open and mirrored at GitHub and Bitbucket He welcomes your comments and suggestions. Work on the namespace chapter is beginning. I and I'm sure many others are looking forward to having this great resource. MAJ #oop #moop

The Grants Committee has received five grant proposals for the September round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on the proposals. Review the proposals below and please comment there. The Committee members will start the voting process on September 26th and the conclusion will be announced by September 30th. Nile Visual Web App Framework Separating Code From Design Multi Lingual And

We have received the following grant application "Swim to Pod". Please leave feedback in the comments field by September 25th, 2014. Swim to Pod Name: Ingy döt Net David Oswald Amount Requested USD $3000 Synopsis Provide Swim tools that allow Perl programmers to produce elaborate Pod documention, painlessly. Provide all the functionality of Pod in a syntax better than Markdown. Provide 5 plugins for extending Swim in

We have received the following grant application "Pegex Grammar for YAML". Please leave feedback in the comments field by September 25th, 2014. Pegex Grammar for YAML Name: Ingy döt Net David Oswald Amount Requested USD $3500 Synopsis Make YAML.pm and YAML::Tiny driven by a common formal grammar. Benefits to the Perl Community Perl has four major YAML implementations: YAML YAML::Tiny YAML::XS YAML::Syck They all have major incompatabilities.

We have received the following grant application "Inline::C Module Support". Please leave feedback in the comments field by September 25th, 2014. Inline::C Module Support Name Ingy döt Net David Oswald Amount Requested USD $2,000 Synopsis Make Inline::C and Inline::CPP the best choice for writing "XS" modules. Benefits to the Perl Community In 2000, Inline.pm and Inline::C brought XS from "hard things possible" to "hard things simple". People

We have received the following grant application "IO::All Redux". Please leave feedback in the comments field by September 25th, 2014. IO::All Redux Name Ingy döt Net David Oswald Amount Requested USD $3,000 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

We have received the following grant application "Nile Visual Web App Framework Separating Code From Design Multi Lingual And Multi Theme". Please leave feedback in the comments field by September 25th, 2014. Nile Visual Web App Framework Separating Code From Design Multi Lingual And Multi Theme Name: Ahmed Amin Elsheshtawy Amount Requested: USD 10,000 Synopsis The main idea in this framework is to separate all the html design,

Tony Cook has requested an extension of $20,000 for his "Maintaining Perl 5 grant":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2013/05/grant-application-maintaining.html. 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 22 tickets were reviewed or otherwise worked on, and 3 patches were applied. With this month I've exceeded the hours in my grant. Hours Activity 8.36 #121159 code, tests #121159 debugging, coding #121159 refactor, testing 0.50 #121404 fix, retest, apply to blead and comment 1.12 #122005 review is_common ptr_table_* code, produce a crash, comment 0.10 #122024 review and close 0.57 #122107 re-test, apply to blead, comment

This announcement is essentially the same as the one from July. 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 September 14th UTC.

We are pleased to announce that Mark Jensen has joined the Grants Committee as a Grant Manager. Mark has been a core developer on the BioPerl project since 2009, and is the author of the Neo4j graph database Perl driver, REST::Neo4p. He currently manages the Data Coordinating Center team of The Cancer Genome Atlas. Please join me in extending a warm welcome to Mark.

Dave Mitchell writes: I spent July mainly processing my p5p mailbox, and looking at various bugs, especially ones which appear that they may be 5.20.0 regressions. Summary bq. 2:45 "Malformed UTF-8 character 1:41 Bad STORE call for tied hash 0:13 Possible regexp memory explosion in 5.20.0 1:28 OOK hack example in perlguts is outdated with COW 0:25 Pathological performance of a pattern match 0:30 cpan/Time-HiRes/t/itimer.t persistently fails with clang 2:24

Tony Cook writes: Approximately 67 tickets were reviewed or otherwise worked on, and 11 patches were applied. I spent some more time on this month, finding a bug in pthreads on NetBSD. Thread specific storage should be initialized to NULL, but under some circumstances this doesn't happen on NetBSD, including NetBSD 6.1.3. This is apparently fixed in NetBSD current. I produced a candidate patch for this ticket, LeonT asked me

Tony Cook writes: Approximately 63 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 10 patches were applied. Probably the most interesting task this month was attempting to optimize regen/regcharclass.pl which became noticably slower when extra EBCDIC code pages were added to the build. Two fairly simple optimizations fell out of the profile from Devel::NYTProf. get_a2n and get_I8_2_utf were each called over 150,000 times, and returned their mappings as a list, while

Paul Johnson writes: In accordance with the terms of my grant from TPF this is the monthly report for my work on improving Devel::Cover covering May and June 2014. Actually, it's really only for May. I did some work on Devel::Cover in June, but I am not charging that to the grant, so the month referred to here is May. This month I released versions 1.14 and 1.15. Perls 5.20.0

We are looking for enthusiastic volunteers who can make contributions to Perl development through the Grants Committee. Currently we have a couple of openings for Grant Managers. Responsibilities Work with grantees and help grants be delivered successfully. Ensure the grant progress is published to the community every month. Become the communication hub between grantees and the Committee. Join the Committee's discussion to improve the grant program. Preferred qualifications Medium or

The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the July round. Proposals in this round Start ACT Voyager, Theo van Hoesel, USD 6,000 Book: Practical Approach to Web Programming with Perl 5, Ahmed Bilal, USD 1,000 Voting Results Title Yes No Score Start ACT Voyager 5 2 18 5+4+3+3+3 Book: Practical Approach to... 2 7 Definition of the score is found in 3.2 of the rules. Details Start ACT Voyager

Dave Mitchell writes: I spent June mainly processing my p5p mailbox, and looking at various bugs, half of which appeared to be 5.20 regressions. Summary bq. 6:40 COWification seems expensive in PADMY variables 0:28 newSVpvf slow in perl 5.20.0 0:28 Benchmark.pm uses excessive CPU on OpenBSD 0:07 PL_sv_no weirdness 1:16 Bleadperl v5.21.0-274-ga7ab896 breaks SHURIKO/String-Simrank-0.079.tar.gz 1:39 Perl regression bug since 5.13.11 bq. 4.3 weeks 36.6 total hours 8.5 average hours per

The Grants Committee has received two grant proposals for the July round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on the proposal. Review the proposals below and please comment there. The Committee members will start the voting process on July 26th and the conclusion will be announced by July 31st. Book: Practical Approach to Web Programming with Perl 5, Ahmed Bilal, USD

We have received the following grant application "Start ACT Voyager". Please leave feedback in the comments field by July 25th, 2014. Start ACT Voyager Name: Theo van Hoesel Amount Requested: 1.000 DBIx::Class 2.000 Dancer implementation 1.000 REST api 2.000 Theme Based templates 6.000 TOTAL Synopsis The Perl Community is a social community that gathers at several places around the world during Conferences and WorkShops

We have received the following grant application "Book: Practical Approach to Web Programming with Perl 5". Please leave feedback in the comments field by July 25th, 2014. Book: Practical Approach to Web Programming with Perl 5 Name: Ahmad Bilal Amount Requested: USD 1000 Synopsis This book would teach web programming from ground up through a practical and minimalist approach. Benefits to the Perl Community 2 years back, when

Dave Mitchell writes: I mainly spent May helping to get blead ready for release; in particular by trying to reduce smoke failures and by looking at 5.20 blocker tickets. Summary bq. 0:24 #95493 for Devel-Size: broken by bleadperl 1:00 #95940 for Cache-Mmap: Test suite segfaults with Perl 5.20.0-RC1 2:04 document/publicize THINKFIRST 1:15 Bleadperl v5.19.3-16-gce0d59f breaks the CPAN 2:10 Bleadperl v5.19.6-171-g437e3a7 breaks ROBIN/Want-0.21.tar.gz 4:08 COW related performance regression in 5.19 1:41

Tony Cook writes: Approximately 80 tickets were reviewed or otherwise worked on, 1 change was applied to blead Hours Activity 3.11 #116925 review new discussion #116925 review discussion and update patch 0.47 #119425 review and comment 3.72 #119593 code review and debugging #119593 more debugging, review, produce patch and comment #119593 add explanation to patch 8.53 #121332 applying 5.21.1 blockers patches #121332 more 5.21.1 blockers #121332 apply more 5.21.1 blocker

As communicated at the May round closure 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 July 15th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback

The following grants have been cancelled and no payments will be made to the grantees. YACT Yet Another Conference Tool The grant was started on May 2013 and has been cancelled as the grantee opted to cancel it. Next Release of Pinto With Key Features The grant was started on May 2013 and has been cancelled due to the rules of operation 2.6. Perl 6 Tablets The

Tony Cook writes: Approximately 68 tickets were worked on, and 7 patches were applied. Jarkko starts his long stream of patches for Coverity issues this month, which I spent a lot of time reviewing. Hours Activity 3.87 #116925 reply to comments, work on patch changes #116925 reply to comments #116925 work on patch #116925 editing, comment with updated patch 1.40 #119949 review 5.18.3 blockers, backport fix and apply 0.35 #119973

The Grants Committee is pleased to announce the voting result of the May round. The following grant is approved and funded: Modern Object Oriented Programming in Perl, Toby Inkster, USD 4,000 Voting result: Title Yes No Score Modern Object Oriented Programming in Perl 6 0 25 5+5+5+5+3+2 Definition of score is found in 3.2 of the rules. We would like to express gratitude for those who took time to give

Paul Johnson writes: In accordance with the terms of my grant from TPF this is the monthly report for my work on improving Devel::Cover covering April 2014. This month I released versions 1.10, 1.11, 1.12 and 1.13. I finished up the work I was doing to the test system. Part of this included improving the tests for merged databases, and imposing more of an ordering on STDOUT and STDERR within

Dave Mitchell writes: I mainly spent April helping to get blead ready for release; in particular by trying to reduce smoke failures and by looking at 5.20 blocker tickets, including: Get PERL_GLOBAL_STRUCT and PERL_GLOBAL_STRUCT_PRIVATE builds to smoke successfully under ithreads: there were a number of race conditions. Fix a race condition in File-Glob/t/basic.t that caused occasional smoke failures. Stop t/run/locale.t from producing spurious warnings under some shells. Make ExtUtils::Install handle

The Grants Committee has received one grant proposal for the May 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 May 22nd and the conclusion will be announced by May 31st. Modern Object Oriented Programming in Perl, Toby Inkster, USD 4,000

We have received the following grant application. Please leave feedback in the comments field by May 22nd, 2014. Modern Object Oriented Programming in Perl Name: Toby Inkster Amount Requested: USD 4,000 Synopsis The proposal is to write a book on Modern OO programming techniques using Moose, Moo, and Class::Tiny. This would be written in a similar style to chromatic's Modern Perl book, following the same test-driven approach to

The Grants Committee calls for grant proposals every two months. It's time for the May round! If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, consider sending a grant application. The application deadline is 23:59 May 10th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback and conclude the acceptance by May 31st. The format will be the same as the March

Paul Johnson writes: In accordance with the terms of my grant from TPF this is the monthly report for my work on improving Devel::Cover covering March 2014. Those of you who have been paying close attention may have noticed that it has been some months since my last report. Unfortunately I got rather busy and Devel::Cover work was one of the casualties. However, with the approval of my grant managers

I am pleased to announce that Tony Cook's grant "Maintaining Perl 5":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2014/03/grant-extension-request-from-t.html grant has been extended by another 400 hours. Thank you to everyone who responded to the call for comments and who provided feedback on this grant extension. I would also like to thank all those who continue to provide financial support to the "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund.

Dave Mitchell writes: Apart from a bit of time spent on a few miscellaneous bugs, I mainly continued working on refactoring re_intuit_start During the course of the month I merged two sets of commits back into blead. At this point I have now audited the whole of the body of code for general correctness, and in particular for utf8 bugs and inefficiencies, and for correct treatment of anchors, especially \G.

The Grants Committee is pleased to announce the voting results of the March round. The following grant is approved and funded: Perl::Lint Yet Another Static Analyzer for Perl5, Taiki Kawakami, USD 800 The following grant is approved but not funded as specified in 3.4 of the Rules of Operation. This will be reconsidered in the next round according to 1.2 of the rules. Automated generation of DWIM Perl, Gabor Szabo,

Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer reported: This past May, The Perl Foundation awarded a grant to fund development of a couple features in Pinto. Pinto is a robust tool for curating a private repository of CPAN modules, so you can build your application with the right modules every time. This is my fifth progress report on that work. Pinto 0.0995 was just shipped to CPAN and it includes a merge command. At

Dave Mitchell writes: I spent about half my time last month continuing to work on fixing and refactoring the Perl_re_intuit_start function, which is the main run-time optimisation facility in the regex engine. My work so far was merged back into blead on 8th February; I've since done some more work which hasn't been pushed yet. I also fixed a regression in maint-5.18 regarding whether a variable is seen in a

The Grants Committee got four grant proposals for this round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on these proposals. Review the proposals below and please comment on each page. They are listed in the order in which they were received. JERL Perl5 running in the JVM, Michael Shomsky, USD 3,000 RPerl Test Suite Upgrade Module::Compile Integration, William N. Braswell, Jr., USD

We have received the following grant application. Please leave feedback in the comments field by March 22nd, 2014. Automated generation of DWIM Perl Name: Gabor Szabo Email: undisclosed Amount Requested: $6,000 Synopsis DWIM Perl is a "batteries included" Perl distribution for Microsoft Windows and for Linux. On Windows it is based on Strawberry Perl, on Linux it is compiled from the source released by the Perl 5

We have received the following grant application. Please leave feedback in the comments field by March 22nd, 2014. Perl::Lint Yet Another Static Analyzer for Perl5 Name: Taiki Kawakami Email: undisclosed Amount Requested: $800 Synopsis This project aims to create a fast and flexible static analyzer for Perl5 that has compatibility with Perl::Critic, with the goal to be light and fast enough to allow near real-time check of

We have received the following grant application. Please leave feedback in the comments field by March 22nd, 2014. Project Title RPerl Test Suite Upgrade Module::Compile Integration Name: Name of proposer. William N. Braswell, Jr. Email: Where we can contact you! undisclosed Amount Requested: How much is your project worth? $800 Synopsis A short description. Whether we want to admit it to ourselves or not,

We have received the following grant application. Please leave feedback in the comments field by March 22nd, 2014. JERL Perl5 running in the JVM Name Michael Shomsky Email: undisclosed Amount Requested: How much is your project worth? ~3000 Note: The project is in maintenance mode and it's 2nd year. It's gotten this far on 4hrs/month from one developer who would like to see it in a

Tony Cook writes: Approximately 57 tickets were worked on, and 12 patches were applied. Probably the most interesting issue this month was diagnosing the HP-UX bus error in during regexp compilation, I won't repeat the diagnosis here, but it can be found at: "http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/02/msg212925.html":http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/02/msg212925.html with some on-point follow-ups from Nicholas Clark, Dave Mitchell and Yves Orton. This month brings the total hours spent on my second grant to 265.07 hours,

I am pleased to announce that Ricardo Signes' "grant application":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2014/01/perl-5-grant-application-trave-2.html and David Golden's "QA Hackathon Travel Grant":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2014/02/perl-5-grant-application-trave-3.html application have been successful. I would like to thank everyone who provided feedback on these grants. The grants were awarded from our "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund. If you wish to contribute to this fund please go to our "donation system":https://secure.donor.com/pf012/give or contact karen perlfoundation.org The "QA Hackathon":http://act.qa-hackathon.org/qa2014/ is a free of charge

As "announced previously":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2014/02/new-rules-of-operation---grant.html, the Grants Committee calls for grant proposals every two months. This is the first round under the new rule. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, consider sending grant application. The application deadline is March 14th. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback and conclude the acceptance by March 31st. There are several reasons for you

We are pleased to announce that the Grants Committee has updated the Rules of Operation. This change was made to make the program more useful for the grant applicants. It is a result of discussions stemming from the community feedback since "this post":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2013/08/2013q3-grant-proposals.html in August 2013. These rules will be in effect beginning with the next call for grant applications in March. Change summary **1. More frequent and faster evaluation

Dave Mitchell writes: I spent the majority of my time last month continuing to work on fixing and refactoring the Perl_re_intuit_start function, which is the main run-time optimisation facility in the regex engine. Part of my goal has been to simplify the structure of the code, which uses no large-scale structural features like while-loops, but instead relies on lots of labels and goto's. Ignoring the three "go here on failure"

Tony Cook writes Approximately 45 tickets were worked on, and 13 patches were applied. I finally found the cause of and fixed

Torsten Raudssus reported: The next phase working on YACT was at the patch -p1 Hackathon in Paris from 6.-8. December 2013. At this time it was very often my mission to explain to others how the YACT project is organized so trying to spread the awareness. But as usual this didn't kicked on, no pull requests or any involvement, but still it was a bit of a prove that the

We have received the following Perl 5 grant application from David Golden. Before we vote on this proposal we would like to have a period of community consultation that will last seven days. Please leave feedback in the comments or if you prefer send email with your comments to karen at perlfoundation.org. Name David Golden Project Title Perl QA Hackathon 2014 Amount Requested $1200 Synopsis This grant will be used

We are pleased to announce that Daisuke Maki has joined the Grants Committee. Daisuke was involved in the world's largest YAPC, YAPC::Asia Tokyo, since its inception in 2006, and has been the main organizer since 2009. He was also the main person behind creating and incorporating the Japan Perl Association. He received the White Camel Award in 2011. We regret to announce that Renée Bäcker, one of the Grant Managers

We are pleased to announce that Makoto Nozaki has been elected as the new Secretary of the Grants Committee. Makoto has a background in project management and has been an integral part of the Grants Committee as a Grant Manager, where all of his managed grants have been completed successfully. The outgoing Secretary, Alberto Simões, has held this position since October 2007. We would like to thank Alberto for his

We have received the following Perl 5 grant application from Ricardo Signes. Before we vote on this proposal we would like to have a period of community consultation that will last seven days. Please leave feedback in the comments or if you prefer send email with your comments to karen at perlfoundation.org. Name Ricardo Signes Project Title Perl QA Hackathon 2014 Amount Requested $1200 Synopsis This grant will be used

Tony Cook writes: Approximately 30 tickets were worked on, and 10 patches were applied. "perl #120384":https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=120384 This month I re-worked Data::Dumper's pure-perl and XS output of hash keys to be consistent with both each other, and with the Quotekeys configuration. "perl #82948":https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=82948 Also on Data::Dumper, I modified the code that dumps qr// objects to output them as qr/original re/flags rather than the qr/ form that tends to expand each time

Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer reported: This past May, The Perl Foundation awarded a grant to fund development of a couple features in Pinto. Pinto is a robust tool for curating a private repository of CPAN modules, so you can build your application with the right modules every time. This is my fourth progress report on that work. I've done quite a lot of work on Pinto the last few weeks. And

Dave Mitchell writes: I spent the majority of my time last month fixing compiler warnings in smokes; along with fixing a few bugs, "working" my p5p mailbox etc. Over the last month I have averaged 17.1 hours per week. As of 2013/11/30: since the beginning of the grant: bq. 6.9 weeks 115.6 total hours 16.8 average hours per week There are 284 hours left on the grant. bq. 7:55 RT#119847

I am pleased to announce that Dave Mitchell's grant application, "Maintaining the Perl 5 Core":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2013/09/grant-application-maintaining-1.html, was accepted. This is his first report. Dave Mitchell writes: I spent my time mainly working on several bug reports, applying patches, fixing smokes, and "working" my p5p mailbox etc. None of the fixes are particularly noteworthy. Over the last month I have averaged 16.1 hours per week. As of 2013/10/31: since the beginning of

Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer reported: This past May, The Perl Foundation awarded a grant to fund development of a couple features in Pinto. Pinto is a robust tool for curating a private repository of CPAN modules, so you can build your application with the right modules every time. This is my third progress report on that work. I've been preoccupied with Stratopan lately, so I have no progress to report this

Torsten Raudssus reported: In July 2013 I started work on my grant, using time off given by my empoyer for such projects. Unfortunately, after my first week of work, the NSA Snowden Affair brought a massive influx of interest towards DuckDuckGo, forcing me to pause my progress. At the Patch -p1 event I plan to continue my work on the grant. In the first week, I concentrated on forming a

Tony Cook has requested an extension of $13,000 for his "Maintaining Perl 5 grant":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2013/05/grant-application-maintaining.html. This grant was started in July 2013 and was successfully completed. The requested extension would allow Tony to devote another 260 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. Tony provided detailed monthly reports of the work he completed and these can be found in the

Nicholas Clark writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the August period. Multiple cores are the future! And we need to enjoy this, because we aren't going to get any choice about it. The current hardware for the hot backup for perl5.git.perl.org has 24 cores, and even mobile phones are thinking about going quad-core. The upshot of this is that the more that you can get

Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer reported: This past May, The Perl Foundation awarded a grant to fund development of a couple features in Pinto. Pinto is a robust tool for curating a private repository of CPAN modules, so you can build your application with the right modules every time. This is my second progress report on that work. The next deliverable on the grant proposal is a merge command. The idea here

Nicholas Clark writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the July period. The main theme for this month seems to be "clean up parts of the build". perl was first developed on a Unix system, back in the times when there dozens of different Unix variants. Hence portability was initially across the different C libraries Figuring out precisely what the system could do was performed by

Tony Cook writes: The most interesting changes this month were probably: "115928":https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=115928 a common rand implementation "117265":https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=117265 failing system calls on embedded NULs "3330":https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=3330 warning on ++$foo when $foo isn't a number, or magically incrementable "85104":https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=85104 preserving $^E across signal handlers

I'm pleased to announce that diakopter's grant proposal, "Wrap up Perl 5 Interop for Rakudo Perl 6 on MoarVM":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2013/07/hague-grant-application.html, has been accepted. I would like to thank everyone who took the time to comment on the 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.

Tony Cook writes: The most interesting changes this month were probably: 116190 making -F imply -a and -a imply -n. 116989 S_croak_memory_wrap 117265 safesyscalls 74798 Data::Dumper XS I added tests and fix for that, and applied it as 2780a6ed. Of course this being Data::Dumper, a change in the code broke some tests on CPAN, in one case a tweak to the output format to match the pure perl code exactly

We have received a new grant application, under the Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund, from David Mitchell. 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: David Mitchell Project Title: Maintaining the Perl 5 Core Synopsis Having recently finished a three-year TPF grant devoted

Tony Cook writes: The most interesting changes this month were probably: 116190 making -F imply -a and -a imply -n. 116989 S_croak_memory_wrap 117265 safesyscalls 74798 Data::Dumper XS The original request in this ticket was that -F without -a should warn or fail with an error. The problem with that, as discussed, is that there's a perfectly reasonable thing to do instead: have -F switch on

I am pleased to announce that Dr Nicholas Clark's "Improving Perl 5":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/08/grant-proposal-improving-perl.html grant has been extended by another 400 hours. I would like to thank everyone who commented on his "request for an extension":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2013/07/grant-extension-request---impr-4.html for their feedback. I would also like to thank all those who continue to provide financial support to the "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund.":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund

Nicholas Clark writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the June period. bq. The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from I guess the same can be said about build systems. So the structural intent of the build is Permit the user to choose configuration options Build the package so the configuration system has to run using native tools. And

Nicholas Clark writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the May period. This month I simplified part of the implementation of pack and unpack, removing about 130 lines of code, and reducing the object code size by about 2K. The only casualty was support for mixed-endian systems. Sorry, PDP-11 users. In the medal stakes for "risk to sanity", the implementation of pack and unpack are strong

We have received the following Hague Grant application from diakopter. 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. Applicant's Name: diakopter Project Title Wrap up Perl 5 Interop for Rakudo Perl 6 on MoarVM Synopsis Embed Perl 5 in Rakudo's

Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer reported: This past May, The Perl Foundation awarded a grant to fund development of a couple features in Pinto. Pinto is a robust tool for curating a private repository of CPAN modules, so you can build your application with the right modules every time. This is my first progress report on that work. The grant proposal covered two key features. I have a tendency to pick the

Dr. Nicholas Clark has requested an extension of $20,000 for his "Improving Perl 5":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/08/grant-proposal-improving-perl.html grant. This grant started in September 2011 and has been running successfully since then. The requested extension would allow Nicholas 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 weekly reports posted on the p5p mailing list Nicholas provides detailed

I am pleased to announce that The Perl Foundation has accepted Tony Cook's grant application for "Maintaining Perl 5":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2013/05/grant-application-maintaining.html. As always the application was considered after a public consultation and feedback period. I would like to thank everyone who took the time to view, assess, and provide feedback on the application. This grant was awarded from money previously raised for the "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund, an initiative maintained by

Nicholas Clark writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the April period. I started the month looking at the Unicode Names code. At Karl's suggestion I changed it to parse the UnicodeData.txt file properly. Previously it had hardcoded various constants, particularly related to the CJK ideographs and Hangul syllables. The CJK ranges in Unicode have increased in the past, and so it's possible that they will

Dave Mitchell writes: This month was mostly spent on removing global state from the regex engine, making re-entrantcy less error-prone. The extract from the merge commit description below gives you all the details you could ever want. Apart from that I spent a few hours re-enabling Copy-on_Write by default post the 5.18.0 release, plus a few other bits and pieces. It turns out that I have finally used up all

Dave Mitchell writes: This month I worked on three 5.18 blocker tickets; all three being regressions related to my jumbo re_eval fix back in 5.17.1. The first, which I continued working on from last month, was the "Regexp::Grammars" bug. Basically, my reworking of the implementation assumed that a constant string segment like "foo" in /foo..../ would indeed be constant; but in the presence of bc. use overload::constant qr sub bless

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. This grant has been running since September 2011 and is on track to finish successfully this month. The requested extension would allow Nicholas to devote another 400 hours to the project. Nicholas provides detailed monthly reports and the recent ones can be found in the following blog posts: "June 2012":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/07/improving-perl-5-grant-report-7.html "July 2012":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/09/improving-perl-5-grant-report-8.html "August 2012":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/09/improving-perl-5-grant-report-9.html "September 2012":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/10/improving-perl-5-grant-report-10.html

Nicholas Clark writes: In September I finally emerged from the rabbit hole of PL_main_start, that I entered into at some point in mid July. Father Chrysostomos has refactored OP allocation to always use a slab allocator, as part of fixing some very long standing bugs to do with OPs. At the start of parsing, a new slab is allocated. While parsing is ongoing, the slab is "owned" by the CV

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the September period. This month I mostly spent my time: 1> Making regexes only copy the needed part of a string. In general when a regex is executed, and it is seen that captures exist or implicitly in the presence of or then perl makes a copy of the string that was matched against, so that subsequent

The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $2000 in November 2012. You don't have to have a large, complex, or lengthy project. You don't even have to be a Perl master or guru. If you have a good idea and the means and ability to accomplish it, we want to hear from you! Do you have something that could benefit the Perl community but

Shlomi Fish reported: 2012-Sep-08: Added a test for the w command for setting a watch expression. Added a test for theW command for removing a watch expression. Added a test for the W command for removing all watch expressions. Added a test for theocommand Added a test for theo anyoption?command. Added a test for theo option=value` command. Added a test for the Added a

Nicholas Clark writes: A fair chunk of the month was taken up with investigating three related areas: How code such as -e 'BEGIN {1}' is compiled, and the interaction between PL_main_cv, CvSTART PL_main_root and PL_main_start Code in op.c which calls CopLINE_set and warnings from multi-line constructions Building with -DPERL_DEBUG_READONLY_OPS to force shared ops to be read-only, and determining the causes of code trying to write to read-only ops Of these,

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the July/August period. I spent a bit of time fixing a few issues causes by my rewriting of the implementation, then started to look into the last unclosed ticket still attached to the re_eval meta-ticket. This concerns code within that modifies the string being matched against, and generally causes assertion failures or coredumps: bc. my $text "a";

Enrique Nell and Joaquin Ferrero reported: Project status: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkmrG_9Q4x15dC1MNWloU0lyUjhGa2NrdTVTOG5WZVE CPAN distribution: http://search.cpan.org/~enell/POD2-ES-5.16.1.02/ Project host: https://github.com/zipf/perldoc-es This month we updated POD2::ES from v5.16.0 to v5.16.1. It was a swift operation, since only one document changed Translated files not included in the distribution were also updated to v5.16.1. As mentioned in a previous report, v5.16.0 fixed the issues that prevented displaying correctly the extended characters in UTF-8 encoded files using perldoc in

Shlomi Fish reported: 2012-Sep-01: Plans for today: 1. Report the segfaults in Devel::Cover. Done: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79338 2. Add more tests. 3. Respond to this message by Rocky Bernstein: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg191414.html Done: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/09/msg191426.html 4. Blog about the grant on my blogs.perl.org blog Also mention the new CPAN distributions I have uploaded. Mention the fact I made use of the `b feature for debugging Games-Solitaire-Verify. Done: http://blogs.perl.org/users/shlomi_fish/2012/09/grant-for-improving-the-perl-debugger-new-cpan-distributions.html 2012-Sep-02: Plans for today: Handle the correspondence

Jess Robinson writes: tool designed to make using the cross-compiled gcc similar to a normal gcc. In the end it turned out to be more of a hinderance. Getting rid of it and using Android's suggestion for "--sysroot" as a gcc option means upgrading the NDK to the latest one is now simple. The SDK is now not required at all. The last 2 weeks I was at the

Nicholas Clark writes: More fun with compilers this month, with make utilities joining in. H. Merijn Brand and I identified this problem with HP's compiler a while back, but I'd not yet had time to fix it: bc. cc -DPERL_CORE -c -Ae -D_HPUX_SOURCE -Wl,+vnocompatwarnings +DD64 DDEBUGGING -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 +O 2 +Onolimit -g pp_sys.c cc: line 2976: panic 5172: Backend Assert Unimplemented CVT. echo 1 Of course, HP's make just

Shlomi Fish reported: 2012-Aug-28: I received the E-mail that my grant for improving the Perl debugger was accepted in the afternoon today My grant manager will be Alan Haggai Alavi, whom I talked with and successfully collaborated with in the past. I decided to start working. I checked the pending tests on my shlomif-perl-d-add-tests-take-2-may-git-burn-in-hell has given me some trouble in the past incarnation of the branch>, and after merging the

For this quarter we had two proposals. Grants' committee voted, and here are the results: Improve WriteAt suite by exporting books to pdf and epub formats proposed by Aliaksandr Zahatski, was voted for not being funded. Adding tests to and refactoring the perl debugger proposed by Shlomi Fish, was voted for funding.

David Golden reported: Cooking Perl with Chef Grant Completion Report I am pleased to report the completion of my TPF grant, "Cooking Perl with Chef". The goal of this grant was to create ready-to-use tools and supporting tutorials that teach Perl developers how to deploy Perl applications repeatable and reliably using the Chef configuration management tool. In the section of the original proposal on my motivations for this grant, I

For this quarter we have two grant proposals being voted: "Improve WriteAt suite by exporting books to pdf and epub formats":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/08/2012q3-grant-proposal-improve.html proposed by Aliaksandr Zahatski "Adding tests to and refactoring the perl debugger regarding their relevance, value for money, etc. The GC will vote in these proposals, and we expect to publish the results by the end of the month.

Shlomi Fish Email: shlomif Amount Requested: $1500. Synopsis Add tests to the built-in perl debugger and refactor it. Benefits to the Perl Community The default perl debugger is useful and powerful. However, it suffers from lack of automated tests and its internal code quality leaves a lot to be desired. This project aims to improve the debugger's test coverage, and afterwards to refactor it. Deliverables 1. More automated tests for

Name: Aliaksandr Zahatski Email: zahatski Amount Requested: 1000$ Synopsis WriteAt http://search.cpan.org/perldoc suite for making books and maintaining docs in pod6 format. It is built on top of the Perl6::Pod implementation of Synopsis26. Currently WriteAt supports exporting books from pod6 to HTML format. This grant will allow me to add the export feature to pdf and epub formats. Benefits for the Perl Community The tools developed as a part of this

Enrique Nell and Joaquin Ferrero reported: Project status: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkmrG_9Q4x15dC1MNWloU0lyUjhGa2NrdTVTOG5WZVE CPAN distribution: http://search.cpan.org/~enell/POD2-ES-5.16.0.07/ Project host: https://github.com/zipf/perldoc-es During the second month we did a thorough proofreading of files included in POD2::ES which led to fixing several errors We also kept updating translated files to 5.16.0, and reviewed a few files that were included in the latest POD2::ES releases. While translating perlobj.pod, a bug in sample code was detected and reported through perlbug.

David Golden reported: Overview For those wondering about of updates on this grant, I'm pleased to be back with some significant progress on the teaching deliverables. Some circumstances in my personal life required me to put the grant on the back burner during June, but July and OSCON-centered conference-driven development have allowed me to rebuild some momentum. In particular, I have three things to announce: perlchef.com is now live. This

Patrick Michaud writes: This is an interim report for my Hague Grant on "Lists, Iterators, and Parcels":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/07/hague-grant-application-lists.html. This report has been far too long in coming; at the time of the original grant proposal it was expected that the design and implementation of Perl 6 lists and iterators was near completion, and that most of what remained to be done would be updating the documentation, tests, and Synopses. Since that

Joel Berger wrote: After another busy month outside of the Perl world, I have gotten a little more time in the last week to work on Alien::Base. I must especially thank fellow WindyCity.pm member David Mertens for working with me on some of the Mac problems involved. N.B. I also want to thank him for PDL::Graphics::Prima, which made the rest of my $work easier this month! If you need interactive

Nicholas Clark writes: The most significant activity for the month was discovering, investigating and iterating fixes for the various bugs now fixed on the branch smoke-me/require. This is the cause of the delay on making a 5.16.1 release, as Ricardo explained in "http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2012-07/msg00954.html":http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2012-07/msg00954.html and hence this report, as the issue only went public two days ago. There are two partly related problems. Both affect code which takes untrusted user data

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the June period. This month saw the final merging of my re_eval branch back into blead, and incorporated in the 5.17.1 release. This consisted of about 125 commits, spread out over a year. The remainder of the month was spent fixing some of the issues thrown up by the new implementation. Some highlights of the new implementation

The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $2000 in August 2012. You don't have to have a large, complex, or lengthy project. You don't even have to be a Perl master or guru. If you have a good idea and the means and ability to accomplish it, we want to hear from you! Do you have something that could benefit the Perl community but

I am pleased to announce that we have extended Dave Mitchell's "Fixing Perl 5 Core Bugs":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/02/grant-proposal-fixing-perl5-co.html grant and Nicholas Clark's "Improving Perl 5":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/08/grant-proposal-improving-perl.html grant. This will allow them both to spend another 400 hours improving the Perl 5 core. I would like to thank the community members who took time to provide feedback on this proposal and all those who have made donations to the "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund.

Jonathan Worthington writes: This is the final report for my Hague Grant on "Meta-model Improvements and Natively Typed Attributes":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/07/hague-grant-application-meta-m.html. There was also an "intermediate progress report":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/05/interim-grant-report-meta-mode.html. At the point of the intermediate progress report, a new version of NQP had been delivered. Its objects were implemented in terms of a new meta-object system, developed with the needs of Perl 6 in mind. However, at that point Rakudo had not started

Enrique Nell and Joaquin Ferrero reported: Project status: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkmrG_9Q4x15dC1MNWloU0lyUjhGa2NrdTVTOG5WZVE CPAN distribution: http://search.cpan.org/~enell/POD2-ES-5.16.0.04/ Project host: https://github.com/zipf/perldoc-es During the last month we updated POD2::ES from v5.14.2 to v5.16.0 and released to CPAN the updated distribution. Other translated files that still must be reviewed Tools We have implemented several changes in the post-processing script: Support for the new naming convention used for Readmes in v5.16 Handling of pod files containing the =encoding utf8

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 June. This extension would allow Nicholas to devote another 400 hours to the project. Details of the recent work completed can be found in the following blog posts: "March 2012":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/04/improving-perl-5-grant-report-4.html "April 2012":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/06/improving-perl-5-grant-report-5.html "May 2012":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/06/improving-perl-5-grant-report-6.html Before we make a decision on

Nicholas Clark writes: Possibly the most unexpected discovery of May was determining precisely why Merijn's HP-UX smoker wasn't able to build with certain configuration options. The output summary grid looked like this, which is most strange: @O OK F Failure extended report at the bottom@ @X Failure under TEST but not under harness@ still running or test results not available@ @Build failures during: unknown or N/A@ @c Configure, m make,

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 a short summary of the work he completed during his "last extension":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/10/fixing-perl5-core-bugs-grant-e.html: My previous $20K extension has, over the last 9 months, been spent

Joel Berger wrote: Well its that time again. Thankfully the news is getting better once more! Much of my time which is earmarked for Perl went to preparing for my YAPC talks. I'm glad they went so well; thanks to all of you who attended. I did even get a question about Alien::Base during one of the Q&As, so I glad to know that people are interested. The news this

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the May period. This month I continued to rework how the code blocks in are actually invoked, and the work is mostly finished. In particular, no longer SEGV; recursive calling etc works; paren captures work correctly in the presence of recursive and nested and I also found and fixed some buggy behaviour of $^N and when backtracking

Moritz has completed his grant and provided the following closing report. Moritz Lenz writes: After working for more than a year on my "grant on exceptions":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/02/hague-grant-application-struct.html, I am now confident that I have done all that I have promised, and can now close the grant. Deliverables A short summary of what I did for each deliverable follows D1: Specification "S32::Exception":http://perlcabal.org/syn/S32/Exception.html contains my work in this area. It provides information about

I am pleased to announce that Jess Robinson's grant application, "Improving Cross compilation of Perl 5":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/05/grant-application-improving-cr.html, has been successful. This grant will be managed by Tom Hukins and Renee Bäcker. I would like to thank everyone who provided feedback on this grant, both on our blog and during the consultation phase.