In August 2010, The Perl Foundation awarded Herbert Breunung a grant to work on the Perl 6 tablets a tutorial and reference for Perl 6. You can view Herbert's progress at any time from the Perl 6 Tablets section of the Perl 6 Wiki. Herbert's work has started slowly, but he has completed the tablet number two and plans to work on tablets one and three in parallel over the

Leon Timmermans finished his grant and shared with us the report below. What has been achieved The Good At the start of this grant I set myself 6 goals. 5 of them have been achieved Document the API Add unit tests Port to 5.10 Add regexp support Improve support for exporting functions, methods and variables. At popular request, I did implement another mojor feature that

Name: Naim Shafiev Email: Amount Requested: 500 Synopsis The apache benchmark siege, jmeter and etc, are sometimes awesome to make http-load testing. But if you want make some non-traditional test they are not good decision.This module try to help you in this case. This project containts the utility and library to build own Benefits to the Perl Community This project gives the capability to make own flexible web-benchmarking tools benchmarking

Name: Jonathan "Duke" Leto. Email: Amount Requested: $1500 Synopsis Currently the Parrot Embedding subsystem is under-tested and under-documented. This grant proposes to add documentation for all public Embed/Extend API functions, write tests to increase the code coverage statistics for the Embed/Extend API to at least 95%, and update the Parrot Developer Docs where errors or omissions are found. Any bugs found on the way that cannot be easily fixed will

This quarter TPF Grants Committee received two proposals for grants. They are: "AnyEvent::HTTPBenchmark":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/11/2010q4-grant-proposal-anyevent.html Naim Shafiev "Improve Parrot Embed/Extend Subsystem":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/11/2010q4-grant-proposal-improve.html Jonathan "Duke" Leto Please take the time to read them carefully and comment. TPF GC is interested in the community feedback about these grants. Just try to be polite.

José and Bruno write: We have concluded the documentation on: installation procedures load balancing reverse proxy web server We have also listed several features we didn't contemplate originally but that we feel must be documented too, so we're going through them as well. We're one week late but since we accounted for a two weeks delay on the proposal, we're still good. The target date remains at December 6th. We

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the September period. Mostly worked on leak bugs this month. Over the first 30 weeks I have now averaged about 14 hours per week, less than the nominal 20. I have used up approx 84% of the hours allocated to the grant. Report for period 2010/09/01 to 2010/09/30 inclusive Summary Effort bq. 14:59 diagnosing bugs 27:30 fixing

Kartik Thakore reported: Since last time: We have released SDL 2.518 Game Loop support completed Chapters: 2nd Drafts for: Preface to Game Loop Chapters completed: 5/11 45% Extra: cfedde has made a script to extract code listings for readers to try examples with out having to retype them. Coments: I am receiving a lot more help from the community, most notable from cfedde for proofreading. I will be

Its that time of the year, again. The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $3000 in November 2010. In the past, we've supported Adam Kennedy's PPI, Strawberry Perl and Perl on a Stick, Nicholas Clark's work on Perl internals, Jouke Visser's pVoice, Chris Dolan on Perl::Critic and many others You don't have to have a large, complex, or lengthy project. You don't even have

Leon just sent me another update on his grant: _bq. Most importantly, I'm finally able to build a dll on Windows, this is an important milestone. The dll still has some issues that prevent it from working correctly though, and it will probably require patches to some ExtUtils:: modules to resolve that. I also improved the documentation Lastly I've been resolving a number of bug reports that I've received lately,

Kartik Thakore reported: 1st drafts Preface Chapter 2: First SDL Application Started work on Chapter 3: Drawing Outlines for the first 7 chapters have been completed Book build framework has been setup Released SDL 2.514 This code is the one that will be used in the book for chapter 02 Got more of the Drawing chapter done Added several more code examples for other chapters Progress: 2.75

Jesse Vincent writes: It gives me great pleasure to announce Perl 5.12.2, the third stable release of Perl 5.12. Shortly, you will be able to download Perl 5.12.2 from your favorite CPAN mirror or from: "http://search.cpan.org/~jesse/perl-5.12.2/":http://search.cpan.org/~jesse/perl-5.12.2/ SHA1 digests for this release are: 75dbbdfa5bf8d4fc813503253e2b58486fa5a4eb perl-5.12.2.tar.bz2 c157f214a93ce20fc06dc9d9c902c05ad1327cb1 perl-5.12.2.tar.gz This release contains minor bug fixes and updates of several core modules, as well as minor documentation updates. It should be fully backward compatible

Michael Schwern is working on Test::Builder 2 and posted some updates on the project. Go read them before use.perl starts the process of moving servers. Test::Builder2 at 10k Feet Finally, some Test::Builder2 examples!

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the August period. I was mostly busy with other stuff this month, so didn't get to put in many hours on the grant. Over the first 25 weeks I have now averaged about 15 hours per week, less than the nominal 20. I have used up approx 73% of the hours allocated to the grant. Report for

Leon just sent an update on his grant: Past month I've been to YAPC::EU where I spoke about part of my project. I also used it to discuss some of the Windows related issues I ran into with others and they have helped me getting clear what's the problem. I haven't quite fixed it yet though. I also worked on refactoring and expanding the documentation, and fixed some bugreports I

I am pleased to announce that Jonathan Worthington's Hague Grant for "Meta-model Improvements and Natively Typed Attributes":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/07/hague-grant-application-meta-m.html has been accepted. Patrick Michaud has agreed to be the grant manager for this project. I would like to thank everyone who provided feedback on this proposal.

The Perl Foundation has a new mailing address! We are working to get contact information on all of our sites updated. Please update your records: Yet Another Society d/b/a The Perl Foundation 340 S LEMON AVE #6055 WALNUT, CA 91789 UNITED STATES

The Perl Foundation Grants Committee is happy to inform on the results of the 2010Q3 round for grant assignments. After the public discussion on The Perl Foundation blog, and after the Grants Committee discussion and vote, the proposals were ranked as: Manual for Game Development with SDL Perl by Kartik Thakore Perlbal documentation by José Castro and Bruno Martins Perl 6 Tablets by Herbert Breunung Improve Parrot Embed/Extend Subsystem Tests

I am pleased to announce that Patrick Michaud's Hague Grant for "Lists, Iterators, and Parcels":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/07/hague-grant-application-lists.html has been accepted. Will Coleda has agreed to be the grant manager for this project. I would like to thank everyone who provided feedback on this proposal.

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the July period. This month was mainly spent on providing a general fix for the weak backreferences in stashes globs and CVs. This means that in general there are likely to be less crashes when doing odd things with stashes and globs. Over the first 21 weeks I have now averaged about 17 hours per week, slightly