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  • Maintaining Perl (Tony Cook) April 2025 Sun, 22-Jun-2025 by alh

    Tony writes: 2025/04/01 Tuesday 0.22 #23151 check CI results, fix minitest and re-push 1.77 #23160 try to decode how the NEED_ stuff works, try leont’s suggestion and test, push for CI 0.82 #22125 check smoke results, rebase and push 0.50 #21878 consider how to implement this 0.53 ppc #70 testing, comment 3.84 2025/04/02 Wednesday 0.23 #23075 rebase and squash some, push for

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  • PEVANS Core Perl 5: Grant Report for May 2025 Tue, 17-Jun-2025 by alh

    Paul writes: As earlier reported, I managed to make some progress on the faster-signatures work, as well as some other things. 2 Bugfix for assigning operator https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/23242 1 Exception handling during defer/finally https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/23244 4 faster-signatures and CVf_NOSNAIL performance work https://github.com/leonerd/perl5/tree/faster-signatures 2 Signature helper functions in class.c https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/3e684b47ee6bec19678c13d8f10b6824ab4c286b Total: 9 hours

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  • Maintaining Perl 5 Core (Dave Mitchell): May 2025 Tue, 17-Jun-2025 by alh

    Dave writes: A bit of a quiet month. I checked blead for any performance regressions compared with 5.40.0, using Porting/bench.pl. I found only one significant one: UTF8 string literals were inadvertently no longer being created Copy-on-Write. I created a PR which improves how OPs are dumped on threaded builds. This will make certain types of debugging easier in the future. Fixed a bug. Tweaked my ParseXS AST

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  • Maintaining Perl (Tony Cook) March 2025 Fri, 09-May-2025 by alh

    Tony writes: 2025/03/03 Monday 0.83 #23015 research and comment 0.22 #23012 research and comment 0.45 #22827 review updates and re-approve 0.68 amagic_call/coverity follow-up, work on a fix, commit message wording, check is clangsa picks this up 0.15 amagic_call/coverity, commit message, push for CI 0.28 #22642 review updates and approve 0.78 #23044 research and comment 3.39 2025/03/04 Tuesday 0.80 #23012 comment,

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  • Maintaining Perl (Tony Cook) February 2025 Fri, 09-May-2025 by alh

    Tony writes: 2025/02/03 Monday 0.28 ppc 30/31 list catch up 0.13 github notifications 0.08 #22955 briefly comment 0.62 #22956 review, testing and comment 0.23 #22957 review and approve 0.30 #22958 review and approve 0.42 #22970 review and approve 0.92 #22917 review, research, testing and approve 2.98 2025/02/04 Tuesday 0.45 github notifications 0.23 #22955 review and approve 1.27 #22963

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  • Maintaining Perl 5 Core (Dave Mitchell): March - April 2025 Fri, 09-May-2025 by alh

    Dave writes: This is my monthly report on work done during Mar and Apr 2025, covered by my TPF perl core maintenance grant. I spent most of my time continuing to refactor Extutils::ParseXS, as a precursor to adding reference-counted stack abilities to XS. In particular, I've recently pushed a large PR, intended to be merged once 5.42.0 is done, which converts ParseXS to create an AST for each XSUB it

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  • RakuAST Project Final Grant Report Fri, 18-Apr-2025 by Saif Ahmed

    Stefan has now come to a conclusion of his efforts with RakuAST. This mammoth task started previously by Jonathan Worthington. In the time since his award of the grant, he has made 823 commits to RakuAST, and his overall contribution to Raku in the past couple of years is second only to the very prolific Elizabeth Mattijsen. His contributions can be viewed on github. It is impossible to describe all

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  • PEVANS Core Perl 5: Grant Report for March 2025 Wed, 16-Apr-2025 by alh

    Paul writes: Hours: 4.5 SV vstring API https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/23075 1.5 PERL_MAGIC_env independence in hv.c https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/23076 4 HvSTASHAUX https://github.com/leonerd/perl5/tree/hv-stashaux 3 Rename any and all features https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/23105 Total: 13 hours

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  • Perl Community Roundtable -- Meeting Notes for March 2025 Thu, 03-Apr-2025 by D Ruth Holloway
    in: Meetings

    The Perl Community Roundtable met on March 21, via Zoom, and the following discussions were presented: Remembrance The Community Roundtable took a moment to remember Andrew Main and discussed his contributions to the Perl community over many years. North American Conference Planning Ruth Holloway, Conference Chair Planning for the 2025 TPRC is well underway; speaker selection is almost completed, and registration is open now at Eventbrite. The conference will be

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  • TPRF Announces Monthly Community Roundtable Wed, 19-Mar-2025 by D Ruth Holloway
    in: Meetings

    For some time now, the TPRF has hosted a monthly "Communities and Reps" meeting, when bits of the community could get together and talk about what's going on in our diverse group of subcommunities. Beginning this week, we're expanding on this meeting, and turning it into the "Community Roundtable." Join us this Friday, 21 March, at 1730 UTC, via Zoom. Why Should I Attend? We hear it all the time

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