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

Tony writes: 2025/01/06 Monday 0.67 #22695 testing, follow-up 0.43 github notifications 0.75 #22804 research and comment 0.22 #22824 research and comment 1.08 #22882 research and comment 1.18 #22883 review discussion, work on test code 4.33 2025/01/07 Tuesday 0.25 #22888 testing and comment 0.08 #22868 briefly comment 0.33 #22864 review and approve 0.20 #22865 review and approve 0.38 #22889

Tony writes: 2024/12/02 Monday 0.18 github notifications 0.70 #22773 review updates, testing and approve 0.15 #22792 look over test failures, comment 0.30 #22788 rebase. squash and push for CI 0.38 #22799 review, research, comment and approve 0.33 #22795 review and approve 0.65 #22797 review and approve, research and comment 0.18 #22792 follow-up 0.22 #22784 review CI, apply to blead, perldelta

Early Bird Registration remains open for the Perl and Raku Conference 2025 in Greenville, SC, at the early price of $275. Ticket prices go up to $350 on April 15, so get your tickets right away! The conference team is working hard to put together a great program of speakers to help celebrate the Perl and Raku languages. Come on down to the Palmetto State and spend time with friends

Tony O'Dell has been working on a modernised and well documented Ecosystem management platform zeco. This is complex work that integrates contributor management and distro management, and is a vital cog in the evolution of a programming language and its accessibilty to its users. The handling of updates and secure,reliable, reproducible access to distros underpins the sustainable viability of such a platform. It was supported by this grant. Key to

Paul writes: Hours: 4 Regexp global pos API https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/22971 2 faster-signatures parser reshaping https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/22967 3 Lexical method invocation operator 1 Bugfix lexical methods field/signature https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/23030 https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/23031 Total: 10 hours

Dave writes: This is my monthly report on work done during Jan and Feb 2025, covered by my TPF perl core maintenance grant. I spent some time 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. I also fixed a bug in regexes which have embedded code blocks where, if the code-block code recurses and calls the

Jason Crome (CROMEDOME on CPAN Authors) has submitted his final report for his project documenting Dancer2. A comprehensive documentation with tutorials and a cookbook that should enable easy engagement with this very useful framework, this is presented in a professional yet accessible way.

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

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

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

Dave writes: 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

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

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,

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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！

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Tony writes: 2024/01/02 Tuesday 0.18 #21759 review and approve 0.17 #21705 review and approve 0.08 #21736 review and approve 0.33 #21757 review and approve 0.22 #21749 review and approve 0.08 #21778 review and approve 1.43 #21745 review in progress 0.67 #21745 more review and approve, comment 3.16 2024/01/03 Wednesday 0.10 #21761 review and approve 0.32 extract RC_STACK pp_backtick from

The Perl and Raku Conference is coming June 24-28. Get tickets to the conference at https://tprc.us/tickets Sign up for a talk at https://tprc.us/talks Take advantage of our special room rate: https://tprc.us/hotel

Tony writes: 2023/12/04 Monday 0.42 #21677 minor fix. testing 0.23 #21661 check smoke results, minor commit message edit, make PR 21683 1.90 #21680 testing, debugging 1.28 #21680 fixes, testing, push for CI 1.42 #21651 testing and reproduce, try a fix and testing, push for CI 5.25 2023/12/05 Tuesday 0.30 #21677 research 0.95 #21664 apply to blead, perldelta, comment on original

Paul writes: Hours: 1 Allow space in -M option https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/21935 3 Tidy up remove builtin unimport logic https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/22002 https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/22009 5.5 use VERSION restrictions https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/21980 https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/21997 https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/22057 1 class.c bugfix https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/21957 2 builtin::numify https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/21982 1 Tests for class.c non-ASCII UTF-8 https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/21983 1.5 Logical xor operator https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/21996 Total: 15 hours.

Dave writes: This is my monthly report on work done during Jan,Feb 2024 covered by my TPF perl core maintenance grant. I spent the last two months mainly on two goals. 1> Understanding XS better so that I can then decide how to update the XS ecosystem to better support a reference-counted stack; as an example, automatically removing the need to call XSUBs via a wrapper in some circumstances. Doing

We are seeking nominations for the 2024 White Camel Awards, which honor remarkable non-technical contributions in the Perl community. The Board will consider all nominations and will seek input both from the Advisory Board and the Perl Steering Council. To nominate an individual, kindly complete the form at https://forms.gle/xQczcsRkguvaBDBn8. In light of our community’s growing diversity, we kindly ask that the rationale for each nomination be articulated in a manner

Dave writes: This is my monthly report on work done during November-December 2023 covered by my TPF perl core maintenance grant. I mainly continued my work on making the perl stack reference counted. As well as "unwrapping" a few more ops, I also took the opportunity to introduce some basic optimisations to get the speed of a PERL_RC_STACK perl interpreter build back closer to a vanilla build. On my most

TPRC 2024 is being held in Las Vegas, NV from June 24-28 2024. You can submit your talk Ideas for TPRC 2024 at https://tprc.us/talks Talk submission deadline is April 5th, Midnight UTC. Talks must be given live and in-person. If you are looking for any talk ideas, try out the conference wiki. New this year, we are accepting submissions for a peer reviewed Science track. Those talks should be submitted

Tony Cook has submitted a report of his activity maintaining Core Perl

PEVANS Core Developement It is difficult to narrow down the depth of PEVANS activity in the Perl Core. Continuing to modernise the Core is vital for the longevity of Perl and introduction of modern paradigms. To do this without breaking Perl is an extra challenge. FOSDEM provided such an opportunty to review what the Paul and the PSC has been upto, and may allow some insight of the builtin excitement

The Perl and Raku Foundation fosters continued development and use of Perl and Raku. As an open source programming language with a largely open source minded community, contributions to Perl and Raku are rarely rewarded. One of the many activities of The Perl and Raku Foundationhas been to reward these activities through Grants. There are as many ideas as there are people reading this post, indeed it is likely that

A new Grant application for Raku. Tony O'Dell is proposing a project to develop a Raku Ecosystem written in Raku. This gets rid of a dependency on other languages and proprietary code to create a more sustainable environment. Tony has a number of Raku projects including the very important Fez, niner, vrurg, andugexe

Following a year of accelerating change in the Open Source and wider digital ecosystems, the Foundation continues to develop and build momentum. We have continued the monthly community meetings and are pleased to see new faces throughout. 2023 saw the publication of the second TPRF prospectus. This provides a valuable tool to share the aims and activities of the Foundation. The 2024 prospectus is in development and will be published

We have received a Grant Application from Narcisse Mbunzama from the Democratic Republic of Congo. He has a track record in AI and Digital Security. He has previously applied for grants. The grant applied for relates to a planned hackathon; although the timeline for funding looks tight, for the purposes of this appication may be ignored; the dates are flexible. Personally I do find that the Open Source Community benefits

Grant report: This is the first report of Paul Evans' successful grant award. He continues his contributions to the Perl Core. His work is diverse and related to activities out of sight of much of the community. Currently we attribute much of the work of integrating a robust Perlish OOP Paradigm into the Core to Paul, but as member of the Perl Steering Council he has his hands on many

Delightful tidings dance upon the air as we unveil R Geoffrey Avery as the distinguished recipient of the coveted White Camel Award for the year 2023. Geoffrey’s contributions to the Perl and Raku communities, especially volunteering for conferences and other TPRF activities, has earned him this coveted honor. Within the vibrant tapestry of Perl and Raku conferences, Geoffrey has gonged hundreds of lightning talks at over fifty conferences on two

We would like to present Bruce Gray as a candidate to join the Board. The board will vote on Bruce's appointment at the board meeting 15th of December, 2023. Below are Bruce's responses to the application questions. Bio: I am Bruce Gray I reside in Alabama near Auburn University, with my wife of 22 years, and close to my stepson and my four school-aged grandchildren. I work as a business

We would like to present Ruth Holloway as a candidate to join the Board. The board will vote on Ruth's appointment at the board meeting 15th of December, 2023. Below are Ruth's responses to the application questions. Bio: I have been a software developer and system administrator for nearly forty years, starting my first paid gig before I was even out of high school, in 1985. I started using Perl

Tony writes: 2023/10/02 Monday 0.22 #21523 comment 1.87 security issue #142 work on a fix 0.83 security issue #142 work on a fix 2.92 2023/10/03 Tuesday 2.02 security issue #142 work on a fix, push and PR 1.18 #21535 review, testing, comment, start another test build/run 3.20 2023/10/05 Thursday 0.48 github notifications 1.17 #21529 review and several comments 0.22

Dave writes: This is my monthly report on work done during September-October 2023 covered by my TPF perl core maintenance grant. I mainly continued my work on making the perl stack reference counted. In particular, I have been concentrating on "unwrapping" common ops to reduce any slowdown on PERL_RC_STACK builds. In fact most of the last two months has been spent on unwrapping and then optimising just a single op,

The Raku Advent Calendar

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The delayed report of the latest round of voting are published. Projects reviewed are the the Perl GPT project and a Core Development Grant applied for by Paul Evans to develop, amongst other things, the object model to go into core Perl. Along with this is the opening of the December Round of Grant Applications

Get ready for an unforgettable experience at one of the biggest Perl events in the world YAPC::Hiroshima, organized by the Japan Perl Association. Event details Date: February 9-11, 2024 Venue: International Conference Center Hiroshima Website: https://yapcjapan.org/2024hiroshima/ Why attend YAPC::HIroshima 2024? Knowledge Exchange: Immerse yourself in Perl and non-Perl topics through three informative tracks of talks. They are expecting 300-400 attendees Networking Opportunities: Connect with fellow Perl enthusiasts and developers Keynotes

One of the goals TPRF would like to achieve, now that conferences are becoming increasingly available in person, is to spread awareness of current Perl and Raku projects. In support of this goal, TPRF will be issuing a limited number of mini grants of up to $300 to participants interested in holding Perl/Raku based talks in TPRF's FOSDEM 2024 dev room. In addition, TPRF will have a 2 day stand

The Perl and Raku Foundation is thrilled to announce that the FOSDEM organising team has accepted our proposal to set up a DevRoom on Saturday, February 3rd 2024. It has been quite a few years since the last Perl DevRoom at FOSDEM. Historically, they have always been well attended and packed. Time for an Update Since last time, a lot has happened, and TPRF is excited to help create this

Tony writes: 2023/09/04 Monday 0.13 github notifications 0.40 #21421 fix some noise from G_USEHINTS tests 1.03 #21419 thinking, comment 1.55 #21449 review and approve 1.02 look into AIX smoke failures, find at least one problem, fix it, push for CI 4.13 2023/09/05 Tuesday 0.38 email George Greer about mingw smoke failures 1.75 look into fedora smoke failure, reproduce, just #20812

Greetings Perl People! There is a strong official consideration by The Perl and Raku Foundation of including a new kind of track to the 2024 Perl and Raku Conference in Las Vegas. Survey URL: https://forms.gle/DDPWsNqEsZW8AyWX7 The track would target academic and industrial STEM applications, and emulate in some way traditional science conference tracks; meaning the talks would be based on paper and poster submissions. If this came to pass, the

A grant application from Paul Evans has just managed to be squeezed in into this round. Paul needs no introduction; he is one of the few people who speaks XS like a native, and has long been a valuable contributor to the Perl Core, as well as a lot of other interesting ancilliary projects. Also into animatronics, he has many modules dedicated to interacting with electronic interfaces. This application targets

Tony writes: 2023/08/01 Tuesday 0.20 look at new coverity hits, briefly discuss with khw 0.27 github notifications 0.87 #21306 review and briefly comment 0.05 #21084 check latest CI results, apply to blead 0.13 #21296 test blead with the fix, close this PR 0.28 coverity look at older hits, one harmless, another false positive 0.18 #21181 apply to blead, perldelta 0.42 #21212

A new grant application from John Napiorkowski and Robert Grimes, this time targeting the development of a large language model trained specifically to develop Perl Code. These veteran coders suggest that using natural language to generate Perl code may potentially allow one to rapidly generate new APIs and applications, or at least give a skeleton to flesh out into a more elaborate tool.

The first ever Perl and Koha conference was held in Helsinki, Finland this year. It featured three main days of Perl and Koha presentations and two days of workshops. Workshops included a Perl training session, a masterclass for new Koha developers, Koha improvement initiatives, discussions on the future of Perl as a language, and more. Koha is the first free open source software library automation package. In use worldwide its

Dave writes: This is my monthly report on work done during June-August 2023 covered by my TPF perl core maintenance grant. I fixed a performance regression bug related to my 'multiconcat' optimisation work from about 5 years ago. Other than that, I restarted my work on my "make stack reference counted" branch, got it into a working state, and merged it into blead. See below for a detailed explanation. SUMMARY:

Tony writes: 2023/07/03 Monday 0.92 #21181 fixes, testing, re-push and push to smoke-me 0.50 #21180 fixes, testing, push for re-CI 1.52 apply one of my PRs, look into unexpected mingw64 failure on another PR 2.94 2023/07/04 Tuesday 0.42 #21120 apply to blead, perldelta update, add to maint votes 0.65 #21132, #21095 apply to blead, perldelta #21202 comment 0.08 #21118, #21060 apply

Tony writes: 2023/06/01 Thursday 1.52 #21129 research, testing, comment 1.52 2023/06/05 Monday 2.65 #21073 look at porting C++ test, EU:CB issue 1.02 #21135 research and comment 0.17 #21139 review and comment briefly 0.18 #21095 consider other C++ non-features to add 1.37 #21129 research and long comment 5.39 2023/06/06 Tuesday 0.20 #21135 more research 1.40 #21131 look at making PerlIOStdio not

Tony writes: 2023/05/01 Monday 0.40 github notifications 0.27 #21051 check it matches the commits in blead and close 0.45 #21061 review and approve 0.22 #21053 review, comment and approve 0.07 #21042 comment 0.12 #21063 review and approve, comment 0.52 #21044 write test and create reversion branch, push for CI 0.82 #17398 resolve inf/nan, work on XS 0.07 #21044 review CI results

Tony writes: 2023/04/03 Monday 0.70 github notifications 0.17 #20811 review CI results, undraft, ask khw to try it out 1.08 work on in name revert 1.95 2023/04/04 Tuesday 1.70 review coverity scan reported issues, open #21005 0.93 #20999 try to reproduce, comment 0.15 #20982 review and approve 0.92 work on in name feature 3.70 2023/04/05 Wednesday 1.07 #20999 reproduce, fixes

Tony writes: 2023/03/01 Wednesday 0.63 #20849 better commit subject, bump versions, testing, apply to blead 1.75 #20811 debugging config.sh generation 1.60 #20811 more debug nmake config.sh generation work on it for GNUmakefile, update output timestamp to match sources 3.98 2023/03/02 Thursday 1.00 #20874 review discussion, review some of the related PRs with some comments 0.12 #20873 review and approve

Tony writes: 2023/02/01 Wednesday 0.13 github notifications 2.25 #20742 work on tests, find a related issue, work on fix, testing 0.28 #20742 review test results, commits, push for CI 0.35 #20756 review and approve 0.68 feature bundle re-work: debugging mismatch of feature bits to hash 3.69 2023/02/02 Thursday 0.08 github notifications 0.13 #20759 comment 0.07 #20742 review CI results,

Tony writes: 2023/01/03 Tuesday 0.08 github notifications 1.40 #20599 review, comments 1.02 #20637 review and comments 0.07 #20621 review and approve 0.40 #20647 review discussion, start to look over code 2.97 2023/01/04 Wednesday 0.30 #20599 follow-up 0.07 #20637 look over discussion 0.47 rfc #32 review and review discussion 0.15 #20667 review and approve 1.35 #20647 more look over code,

Dave writes: This is my monthly report on work done during April and May 2023 covered by my TPF perl core maintenance grant. The last two months have been a bit light on the perl maintenance front. I did a couple of fixups to Deparse.pm and updated Porting/deparse-skips.txt so that cd t; ./TEST -deparse passes again. SUMMARY: 0:35 disable leaking class test 5:02 fixup deparsing tests 8:26 process p5p

Dave writes: This is my monthly report on work done during March 2023 covered by my TPF perl core maintenance grant. I mainly continued work on making the stack reference counted. Since the basic code is working I concentrated more at looking at distributions which were reported to fail on a perl built with PERL_RC_STACK. SUMMARY: 4:49 BBC: Blead breaks RCLAMP/Devel-LeakTrace-0.06.tar.gz and code TOTAL: 42:27