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  • PEVANS Core Perl 5: Grant Report for December 2024 - January 2025 Mon, 10-Feb-2025 by alh

    Paul writes: I only did about an hour in December, so I thought rather than submit a report for a single hour, I'd just roll it into this month's. For December: 1 Final merge tasks for any and all https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/22773/ For January: 0.5 Resync "Time::Piece" to CPAN https://metacpan.org/release/PEVANS/Time-Piece-1.35 4.5 "faster-signatures" experimentation into subroutine signature improvements https://github.com/leonerd/perl5/tree/faster-signatures 1 Implement my method syntax https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/22940 5 Reshaping the way

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  • Early Bird Registration (and the second round CFP) are now open for The Perl and Raku Conference 2025 Sun, 09-Feb-2025 by D Ruth Holloway

    Registration is now open for the 2025 edition of The Perl and Raku Conference, to be held June 27-29 in Greenville, SC. Early bird tickets at $250 each are available now through April 15. We are expecting a full house in this year's more-compact venue, so get yourself signed up right away! Buy your tickets now on Eventbrite. If you haven't yet reserved your hotel room, you ought to do

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  • Maintaining Perl (Tony Cook) November 2024 Fri, 31-Jan-2025 by alh

    Tony writes: 2024/11/04 Monday 1.83 #15861 research and comment, research SWIG behaviour and follow-up comment 0.08 #22717 review and approve 0.62 #22718 research and comment 0.32 #22720 start review, comments 0.45 #22720 more review, conditional approval 3.30 2024/11/05 Tuesday 0.93 #22718 provide a simple module version of the PR 0.17 #22720 check updates and approve 0.50 #22721 review, testing and

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  • Maintaining Perl 5 Core (Dave Mitchell): December 2024 Wed, 29-Jan-2025 by alh

    This is my monthly report on work done during December 2024 covered by my TPF perl core maintenance grant. I spent most of last month continuing to do various bits of code refactoring and test-adding on Extutils::ParseXS, as a precursor to adding reference-counted stack abilities to XS. Summary: 8:42 process p5p mailbox 29:17 refactor Extutils::ParseXS Total: 37:59

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  • Shape the Future of Perl & Raku Events with Your Input! Mon, 27-Jan-2025 by D Ruth Holloway

    The Perl and Raku communities have always been more than just a group of developers—they're a thriving network of passionate individuals driving innovation and collaboration. From lively meetups to enlightening workshops and world-class conferences, these events have long been the heartbeat of our shared journey. But what makes an event truly great? Is it the inspiring talks, the hands-on sessions, or the connections made over coffee or a beer? To

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  • New Public Matrix Channel #perl:nerdch.at Wed, 22-Jan-2025 by D Ruth Holloway

    We’re thrilled to announce the launch of a new public Matrix channel dedicated to everything Perl! Whether you're a seasoned Perl developer, a beginner, or simply someone interested in learning more about the language, we invite you to join us in #perl:nerdch.at. This channel is designed to foster collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and support within the vibrant Perl community. It's a space where you can: Ask questions about Perl syntax, best practices,

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  • Join the Perl and Raku Communities at FOSDEM 2025! Wed, 22-Jan-2025 by Amber Krawczyk

    FOSDEM, the largest gathering of free and open-source software enthusiasts, is fast approaching, and the Perl and Raku communities are ready to make a splash this year! Taking place on February 1–2, 2025, in Brussels, FOSDEM is a must-attend event for developers, technologists, and anyone passionate about open-source projects. The Perl and Raku stand at FOSDEM promises to be a hub of inspiration, collaboration, and community. Whether you're a seasoned

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  • Board announces D Ruth Holloway as Community Engagement Chair Tue, 21-Jan-2025 by D Ruth Holloway

    The Board of the Perl and Raku Foundation is pleased to announce that D Ruth Holloway has been selected for the role of Community Engagement Chair for the Board. This new position is primarily responsible for serving as a broad conduit between the Board and the communities of users of Perl and Raku, representing the Board to the communities, and keeping the Board apprised of the communities’ needs and concerns..

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  • TPRC 2025 Papercall Sun, 29-Dec-2024 by Amber Krawczyk

    The first deadline for the 2025 TPRC papercall is on January 15th! Get those papers in! Go to http://tprc.us for more information!

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  • Maintaining Perl 5 Core (Dave Mitchell): November 2024 Sun, 22-Dec-2024 by alh

    Dave writes: This is my monthly report on work done during November 2024 covered by my TPF perl core maintenance grant. I spent most of last month continuing to do various bits of code refactoring and test-adding on Extutils::ParseXS, as a precursor to adding reference-counted stack abilities to XS. Summary: 5:09 process p5p mailbox 39:10 refactor Extutils::ParseXS Total: 44:19 TOTAL

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  • Maintaining Perl (Tony Cook) October 2024 Sun, 22-Dec-2024 by alh

    Tony writes: 2024/10/01 Tuesday 1.17 #22547 work on revert, test code, testing, make PR 22635 0.08 #22633 review and approve 0.22 #22634 review and approve 1.17 #22629 review and comments 0.20 #22547 work on more tests 2.84 2024/10/02 Wednesday 0.23 #22629 review and approve 0.15 github notifications 0.30 #22639 review and comment 0.33 #22638 review and comment 0.50 #22614

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  • Announcing the 2024 White Camel Award recipient Thu, 19-Dec-2024 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Awards

    We are pleased to announce Olaf Alders as the White Camel Award 2024 recipient. Most likely people recognize Olaf as the guy behind MetaCPAN. He co-founded the project in late 2010 as a means to aggregate data for an iOS application. The phone app fizzled, but MetaCPAN took on a life of its own. Olaf has been part of the team working on it ever since. MetaCPAN is a user-friendly

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  • PEVANS Core Perl 5: Grant Report for November 2024 Sun, 08-Dec-2024 by alh

    Paul writes: I had a suddenly much more productive month in November, as a lot of little logjams and other things in the way all got cleared. Hours: 4 Optimise foreach on builtin::indexed https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/22641 https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/22726 8 "faster signatures" experiment https://github.com/leonerd/perl5/tree/faster-signatures https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/22763 3 valid_identifier function family https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/22769 1 :writer attribute on fields https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/22765 7 Implementing any and all https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/22773 1 Fix B::Deparse on method

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  • Maintaining Perl (Tony Cook) September 2024 Sun, 17-Nov-2024 by alh

    Tony writes: 2024/09/02 Monday 0.12 #22547 comment 0.13 #21246 review and comment 1.58 #22415 research and comment 0.22 #22541 review and approve 0.20 #22125 comment 0.13 #22539 review and approve 0.43 #22380 apply to blead, perldelta 0.93 #22552 review and approve with comment 3.74 2024/09/03 Tuesday 0.77 #22563 review, research and approve 2.22 #22542 debugging, research and comment

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  • Maintaining Perl 5 Core (Dave Mitchell): October 2024 Sun, 17-Nov-2024 by alh

    Dave writes: This is my monthly report on work done during October 2024 covered by my TPF perl core maintenance grant. I spent most of last month continuing to do various bits of code refactoring and test-adding on Extutils::ParseXS, as a precursor to adding reference-counted stack abilities to XS. SUMMARY: 9:23 process p5p mailbox 47:46 refactor Extutils::ParseXS Total: 57:09

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  • Maintaining Perl (Tony Cook) August 2024 Sun, 17-Nov-2024 by alh

    Tony writes: 2024/08/01 Thursday 0.42 #22450 review updates, discussion, approve with comment 0.47 #22451 review, testing and approve 0.17 #22436 review and approve with comment 0.62 #22441 review and comment 1.28 #21524 provide patches to Promise-ES6 1.20 #1420/#19124 more review, cleanup, push for CI 4.16 2024/08/05 Monday 0.10 #22444 no follow-up discussion, recheck and approve 0.37 #20317 research and comment

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  • PEVANS Core Perl 5: Grant Report for October 2024 Sun, 17-Nov-2024 by alh

    Paul writes: Hours: 4 meta module sub signature queries and bugfixes https://metacpan.org/release/PEVANS/meta-0.012/source/Changes 5 Optimisations for foreach on builtin::indexed https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/22641 5 Beginnings of improvements to subroutine signatures in core. Experiment with the idea of no-snails and prepare for implementing named parameters as per PPC0024. https://github.com/leonerd/perl5/tree/faster-signatures Total: 14 hours

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  • Dancer2 Documentation Grant Report Fri, 08-Nov-2024 by Saif Ahmed
    in: Grants

    Jason has submitted a midway report of his Dancer 2 Documentation project. While the project is undoubtedly an important piece of work, his report is also a perfect example of how grants (or indeed any project) should be done. There is a professional demonstration of discipline, identifying goals, challenges, and success.

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  • Perl and Raku Conference 2025 News Sun, 03-Nov-2024 by D Ruth Holloway

    The conference organizing team is excited to present details of the 2025 Perl and Raku Conference, to be held June 27-29 in Greenville, SC. Registration for the conference will open soon, but you can start planning now to attend. We'd love to see you in the Palmetto State next summer! Streamlined conference, new schedule! The Perl and Raku Conference 2025 is changing things up a little. We're streamlining the conference

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  • Maintaining Perl 5 Core (Dave Mitchell): September 2024 Wed, 09-Oct-2024 by alh

    Dave writes: This is my monthly report on work done during September 2024 covered by my TPF perl core maintenance grant. I spent most of last month continuing to do various bits of code refactoring and test-adding on Extutils::ParseXS, as a precursor to adding reference-counted stack abilities to XS. SUMMARY: 5:02 process p5p mailbox 2:06 reduce smoke failures 54:15 refactor Extutils::ParseXS Total: 61:23 TOTAL

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  • Why The Perl and Raku Foundation Supports The Open Source Pledge Tue, 08-Oct-2024 by Stuart J Mackintosh

    The Open Source Pledge We at The Perl and Raku Foundation are supporting the Open Source Pledge initiative. The Open Source Pledge consists of companies with a shared commitment to paying the maintainers of the open source software they consume, therefore aims to help address sustainability challenges facing the Open Source community. The Sustainability Challenge in OSS Open source software is the backbone of much of today’s technology, but it

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  • PEVANS Core Perl 5: Grant Report for August - September 2024 Fri, 04-Oct-2024 by alh

    Paul writes: With the 5.40 release well out of the way, and freed from my PSC commitments, I managed to find a bit more time this month to actually write some useful code. Hours: 2 Improvements to op_dump for custom operators https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/22572 1 Improvements toop_dump on existing UNOP_AUX operators https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/22573 11 Additions to meta module: various "list"-type methods, set_prototype set_subname on metasubroutines, add_named_sub helper method, is_class is_method

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  • Thank you for the fundraising at YAPC::Hiroshima in Japan Fri, 04-Oct-2024 by Makoto Nozaki

    The Japan Perl Association made a generous donation to The Perl and Raku Foundation following their fundraising activity at YAPC::Hiroshima Here is a thank you message from Olaf Adler: Japanese translation below: 日本語抄訳 こんにちは。Olaf Alderと申します。The Perl Foundationで後援者様向け広報の担当をしています。今日は日本のPerlコミュニティの皆様に感謝の意を表したく、ご連絡差し上げました。 Japan Perl AssociationとYAPC::Japanの皆様には、長年にわたるご支援を誠に「ありがとう」ございます。特に先日のYAPC::Hiroshimaの大盛況をお祝い申し上げます。写真で見た酒樽募金箱は印象的で、今後、私は日本酒を飲むたびにこのイベントを思い出すでしょう。 YAPCの継続的な成功は素晴らしいです。日本チームの秘訣を世界に伝えてほしいと願っています。私たちも多くを学びたいと思います。 Japan Perl AssociationはThe Perl Foundationの大切なパートナーです。今後とも協力し、Perlの発展に努めましょう。YAPC::Hakodateの盛会をお祈りしています。ありがとうございます!

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  • Maintaining Perl 5 Core (Dave Mitchell): August 2024 Sat, 14-Sep-2024 by alh

    Dave writes: This is my monthly report on work done during August 2024 covered by my TPF perl core maintenance grant. I spent most of last month doing various bits of code refactoring on Extutils::ParseXS, as a precursor to adding reference-counted stack abilities to XS. The code for Extutils::ParseXS is exceedingly unpleasant, with for example the main method, process_file being over 1700 lines of code. It's a random mishmash

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  • TPRC 2024 after action report Wed, 11-Sep-2024 by Amber Krawczyk

    TPRC 2024 was held in Las Vegas. The foundation has gathered feedback from the community/conference data and composed the following after action report. We look forward to seeing everyone next year in Greenville, SC.

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  • Dates and location have been set for TPRC 2025! Mon, 09-Sep-2024 by D Ruth Holloway

    For the first time in the conference's history, we're going to Greenville, South Carolina! Next year's conference will be held at the Holiday Inn Express Suites on Woodruff Rd on June 27-29, 2025. The format will a little different from recent conferences--Friday will be dedicated to a small class session, and the conference will be two tracks, Saturday and Sunday. Mark your calendars now! The call for papers and hotel

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  • Maintaining Perl 5 Core (Dave Mitchell): July 2024 Mon, 19-Aug-2024 by alh

    Dave writes: This is my monthly report on work done during July 2024 covered by my TPF perl core maintenance grant. I spent most of last month continuing to work on understanding XS and improving its documentation, as a precursor to adding reference-counted stack abilities to XS. I finished working through the Extutils::ParseXS module's code line line trying to understand it. SUMMARY: 5:24 process p5p mailbox 3:01 reduce smoke failures

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  • PEVANS Core Perl 5: Grant Report for July 2024 Mon, 19-Aug-2024 by alh

    Paul writes: July ended up being a rush to finish some commercial work I had going elsewhere, but I did manage a few core commits. Nothing directly user-visible but they add some safety for -DDEBUGGING builds that often helps track down mismatched pointers when making API calls and can help find a lot of subtle bugs. Hours: 4 Pointer cast safety improvements https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/22416 https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/22417 https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/22421 Total: 4 hours

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  • Maintaining Perl (Tony Cook) July 2024 Wed, 14-Aug-2024 by alh

    Tony writes: 2024/07/01 Monday 0.42 #22333 review and approve 0.08 #22349 review update and approve 0.08 #22323 review update and approve 0.08 #22341 review update and approve 0.10 #22324 review update and approve 0.07 #22344 review update and approve 0.12 #22355 review and approve 0.37 #22356 review, research and approve 0.13 #22357 review, research, comment and approve 0.10 #22358 review

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  • Maintaining Perl (Tony Cook) June 2024 Tue, 23-Jul-2024 by alh

    Tony writes: 2024/06/03 Monday 0.72 #22211 check smoke results, check and re-word one commit message, make PR 22257 1.95 #22230 debugging 2.42 #22230 debugging 5.09 2024/06/04 Tuesday 0.45 #22211 cleanup, testing, update PR 1.20 #22252 review, testing 1.47 #22230 test issues. debugging 3.12 2024/06/05 Wednesday 2.20 #22230 review khw-env changes 1.47 #22230 try an experiment with character encoding, which

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  • PEVANS Core Perl 5: Grant Report for April, May, June 2024 Mon, 15-Jul-2024 by alh

    Paul writes: My time was almost entirely consumed during April and May by running a stage show, and then June by travelling the entire length of the country supporting a long-distance bicycle adventure; as such I didn't get much Perl work done and I've only just got around to writing out what few things I did get done. Entirely related to a few last pre-release steps to get features nicely

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  • Maintaining Perl 5 Core (Dave Mitchell): June 2024 Thu, 11-Jul-2024 by alh
    in: Grants

    Dave writes: This is my monthly report on work done during June 2024 covered by my TPF perl core maintenance grant. I spent most of last month continuing to work on understanding XS and improving its documentation, as a precursor to adding reference-counted stack abilities to XS. This work is a bit frustrating, as I still haven't got anything publicly to show for it. Privately however, I do have about

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  • New Standards of Conduct published Thu, 04-Jul-2024 by D Ruth Holloway

    The Perl and Raku Foundation has a new Standards of Conduct taking effect on August 1, 2024, to help combat bullying, harassment, and abuse in our communities.

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  • TPRC 2024 Feedback Form Thu, 27-Jun-2024 by Amber Krawczyk

    Please help us by filling out our brief TPRC feedback form at https://forms.gle/DcUDX6JzWT72yXTY7 Couldn't make it this year? We still want your feedback!

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  • Outreachy 2024 - Success working on the Open Food Facts project Tue, 25-Jun-2024 by Stéphane Gigandet
    in: Outreachy

    The Perl Foundation is taking part again this year in the Outreachy program which encourages the participation of underrepresented groups in open source. As Makoto Nozaki described in the previous post, we had many applicants this year, most of whom were new to Perl but very interested in learning the language. Out of many very motivated and enthusiastic candidates, we selected Success Ologunsua who will be working on the Open

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  • Maintaining Perl (Tony Cook) May 2024 Mon, 24-Jun-2024 by alh
    in: Grants

    Tony writes: Hours> 2024/05/01 Wednesday 0.93 review smoke reports 0.08 check cygwin dll conflict revert results and open PR 22187 2.87 C++ header testing again 3.88 2024/05/02 Thursday 2.90 C++ header testing: test code 1.23 more C++ header testing test code 4.13 2024/05/06 Monday 0.17 github notifications 0.88 #22195 start prep of test env 1.63 more C++ header testing, actually

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  • Maintaining Perl (Tony Cook) April 2024 Mon, 24-Jun-2024 by alh
    in: Grants

    Tony writes: 2024/04/02 Tuesday 0.30 #22115 review and approve 0.75 #22114 review, research 0.40 #22113 review, research, comments 1.45 2024/04/03 Wednesday 0.67 #22110 review and approve 1.20 #22116 review, testing, coverage testing and comment 0.32 #22081 review latest changes and approve 0.33 #22113 review updates and approve 0.68 #21877 debugging. find an issue and push for CI 1.88 #21550 testing,

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  • Maintaining Perl 5 Core (Dave Mitchell): April - May 2024 Wed, 12-Jun-2024 by alh
    in: Grants

    Dave writes: This is my monthly report on work done during April and May 2024 covered by my TPF perl core maintenance grant. I mostly spent my time working on tickets, smoke reports etc related to getting perl ready for a new release. SUMMARY: 9:27 #16627: Null pointer dereference in S_SvREFCNT_dec 0:30 __LINE__ deparsing 3:48 fix double free in const state sub 7:26 process p5p mailbox 1:06 reduce smoke failures

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  • Grant Applications Results of Voting May 24 Tue, 04-Jun-2024 by Saif Ahmed
    in: Grants

    4 Grant Applications reviewed last month and results of voting are presented

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  • Time is dwindling to book your trip to TPRC! Sat, 01-Jun-2024 by Amber Krawczyk
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  • Maintaining Perl (Tony Cook) March 2024 Thu, 30-May-2024 by alh
    in: Grants

    Tony writes: 2024/03/04 Monday 0.10 #22061 review and approve 0.15 #22054 review and approve 0.70 #22059 review, testing and comments 0.70 #22057 review changes, testing against App::Ack and Module::Info 0.35 #21877 debugging 1.18 #21877 debugging 3.18 2024/03/05 Tuesday 0.55 #22063 review, briefly comment 0.55 2024/03/06 Wednesday 0.10 #22063 review and approve 0.55 #21261 research and comment 0.08

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  • Outreachy Internship 2024 Updates Thu, 09-May-2024 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Outreachy

    TL;DR We just finished intern selection for this year’s Outreachy program. We got more projects and more applicants than the previous years, which made the selection hard in a good way. Continuing our annual tradition, The Perl and Raku foundation is involved in the Outreachy program which provides internships to people subject to systemic bias and impacted by underrepresentation. We have just finished the intern selection process, which turned out

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  • Maintaining Perl (Tony Cook) February 2024 Mon, 06-May-2024 by alh
    in: Grants

    Tony writes: 2024/02/01 Thursday 2.50 #21873 fix, testing on both gcc and MSVC, push for CI 2.50 2024/02/02 Friday 0.72 #21915 review, testing, comments 0.25 #21883 review recent updates, apply to blead 0.97 2024/02/05 Monday 0.25 github notifications 0.08 #21885 review updates and approve 0.57 #21920 review and comment 0.08 #21921 review and approve 0.12 #21923 review and approve

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  • TPRF sponsors Perl Toolchain Summit Fri, 03-May-2024 by Makoto Nozaki

    I am pleased to announce that The Perl and Raku Foundation sponsored the Perl Toolchain Summit 2024 as a Platinum Sponsor. The Perl Toolchain Summit is an annual event where they bring together the volunteers who work on the tools and modules at the heart of Perl and the CPAN ecosystem. The PTS gives them 4 days to work together on these systems, with all their fellow volunteers to hand.

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  • TPRC Call for volunteers Sat, 27-Apr-2024 by Amber Krawczyk

    We hope you are coming to in Las Vegas June 24-28! Plans are underway for a wonderful TPRC. But a conference of this type is only possible because of volunteers who give their time and expertise to plan, promote, and execute every detail. We need volunteers! You may have already volunteered to speak at the conference; if so, wonderful! If you are not presenting there are many ways to help.

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  • Grant Application: RakuAST Fri, 26-Apr-2024 by Saif Ahmed

    Another Grant Application from a key Raku develoer, Stefan Seifert. A member of the Raku Steering Council, Stefan is also an author of several Perl 5 modules including Inline::Python and Inline::Perl6. This Grant is to help advance AST or Abstract Syntax Tree. This is integral to Raku internals and allows designing and implementation of new language components, that can be converted into bytecode for execution by the interpreteter or "virtual

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  • Grant Application: Dancer 2 Documentation Project Thu, 18-Apr-2024 by Saif Ahmed
    in: CPANGrants

    We have had a grant aplication from Jason Crome. He is an author and maintainer of a very popular Perl Web Framework familiar to many of us in the Perl community. Dancer 2 has continued to evolve and remains very useful for web application creation. As it besomes more modernised, more robust, and acquired more new features, it has become out of sync with available documentation. A key requirement to

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  • The Perl and Raku Conference: Call for Speakers Renewed Tue, 16-Apr-2024 by Todd Rinaldo

    TPRC in Vegas June 24-28. Sign up as a speaker for a free ticket to the conference!

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  • Maintaining Perl 5 Core (Dave Mitchell): March 2024 Tue, 09-Apr-2024 by alh
    in: Grants

    Dave writes: This is my monthly report on work done during March 2024 covered by my TPF perl core maintenance grant. Less hours than normal last month due to a combination of jury service and the consequences of spending lots of time with my fellow jurors. I spent my time mainly on general small tasks to help get blead into shape for the 5.40 release, such as analysing and reducing

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  • PEVANS Core Perl 5: Grant Report for March 2024 Tue, 09-Apr-2024 by alh
    in: Grants

    Paul writes: Hours: 2 builtin::is_inf is_nan https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/22059 1 Tidying up PADNAMEf_TOMBSTONE https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/22063 1 Revert PR 21915 https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/22085 2 C99 named initialisers in MGVTBL structs https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/22086 4 perl 5.39.9 release https://metacpan.org/release/PEVANS/perl-5.39.9 Total: 10 hours

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