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

I'm delighted to announce that Dave Mitchell's recent "grant extension request":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/06/grant-extension-request.html has been successful. This extension will allow Dave to continue with this work for another 400 hours. 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. If you are interested in funding this work please contact karen perlfoundation.org or donate directly through

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

I am pleased to announce that The Perl Foundation's Grants Committee has voted to treat Taiki Kawakami's grant to work on Perl::Lint as successfully completed. Since our most recent report Taiki has fixed a small bug. To help fund more work like this, please donate to TPF's grants fund

As we close YAPC::NA in Salt Lake City, we want to thank everyone who attended, organized, and sponsored this year's conference. Without our community coming together in support, we wouldn't have such a great event! This year, YAPC sold-out at 340 attendees with a reported attendance of over 350. Specifically, The Perl Foundation would like to thank our local organizing team for all of their hard work. David Oswald and

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.

I am pleased to announce that Bart Wiegmans' recent Hague Grant Application, "Advancing the MoarVM JIT":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/04/perl-6-hague-grant-application.html has been successful. I would like to thank everyone who provided feedback on this proposal.

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.