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,

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 August 2012. This month I released Devel::Cover 0.93. The bulk of this report is taken from my weekly reports, so if you have read them there is little new here. One of the nice things about having this grant and being able to spend more

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.

I'm happy to announce that Heath Bair is our new Conferences Committee Chair. Heath was the organizer for YAPC::NA in Columbus in 2010 and he has remained passionate about YAPCs ever since. I'm looking forward to him bringing that passion to one of the most active committees in TPF. Please join me in congratulating Heath on his new role!

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

In accordance with the terms of my grant from TPF this is the monthly report for my work on improving Devel::Cover covering July 2012. This month I released Devel::Cover 0.90, 0.91 and 0.92. I wasn't able to spend as much time working on Devel::Cover this month as I had hoped to. The time I did spend was primarily on working through RT and github tickets, resolving those I could and

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

Josh McAdams is stepping down as conferences chair, so TPF is now accepting self-nominations for this role. This is a great opportunity to help the Perl community and is one of the key roles that can have a huge impact without writing code. You can take a look at the expectations for the role on the "conference roles page":http://www.perlfoundation.org/conferences_committee_roles. If you're interested, answer the questions at the bottom of the