Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the February period. Spent most of the month fixing many taint issues associated with s///, which I discovered as a side-effect of looking into the \p{$tainted} issue. Over the last month I have averaged 13 hours per week. Over the 50 weeks of the grant I have done 639 hours, averaging 12.8 hours per week. There are

We have received the following Hague Grant application from Moritz Lenz. Before the Board votes on this proposal we would like to have a period of community consultation. Please leave feedback in the comments or if you prefer send email with your comments to karen at perlfoundation.org. Name Moritz Lenz Project Title Structured Error Messages: Design and Implementation Synopsis A system for error messages will be designed, and implemented in

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the January period. Tinkered a bit more with overloading and tieing, and worked on the security issues associated with user-defined \p{} properties. Over the last month I have averaged 10 hours per week. Over the 47 weeks of the grant I have done 585 hours, averaging 12.4 hours per week. There are 315 hours left on the

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the December period. Tinkered a bit more with overloading and tieing. Over the last month I have averaged 5 hours per week, mainly due to Christmas. Over the 43 weeks of the grant so far, I have done 548 hours, averaging 12.7 hours per week. There are 352 hours left on the grant. Report for period 2010/12/01

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the November period. Nearly all the month was spent on one bug, which was to make PerlIO minimally re-entrant bq. 0:00 diagnosing bugs 46:40 fixing bugs 7:45 reviewing other people's bug fixes 0:00 reviewing ticket histories 0:00 review the ticket queue 54:25 Total Numbers of tickets closed: bq. 2 tickets closed that have been worked on 0

I am pleased to announce that Dave Mitchell's "grant":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/02/grant-proposal-fixing-perl5-co.html has been extended by another $20,000. I would like to thank Dave for his great work so far. I would also like to thank his grant managers Jesse Vincent and Marcus Holland-Moritz, and "Booking.com":http://www.booking.com/, whose generous contribution to TPF has allowed us to fund this grant. To date this grant has allowed Dave to spend around 520 hours working on and

Jonathan Leto writes: I'm excited to announce that "Parrot Foundation":http://parrot.org/ and "The Perl Foundation":http://perlfoundation.org/ have been accepted as "organizations in Google Code-In 2010":http://socghop.appspot.com/gci/org/show/google/gci2010/parrot_perl_foundations! "Google Code-In":http://socghop.appspot.com/gci/program/home/google/gci2010 is a contest, similar to "Google Summer of Code":http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/program/home/google/gsoc2010, where Google pays students aged 13-18 to do tasks designed by open source communities, while learning about open source. Google pays for the work to be done, and we get new members to our communities, while

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the October period. Mostly worked on leak/refcount/malloc bugs this month. Over the first 34 weeks I have now averaged about 14 hours per week, less than the nominal 20. I have used up approx 93% of the hours allocated to the grant. Report for period 2010/10/01 to 2010/10/31 inclusive Summary Effort bq. 13:55 diagnosing bugs 37:38 fixing

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

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

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

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.

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

I am pleased to announce that Solomon Foster has successfully completed his Hague Grant for "Numeric and Real Support":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/03/hague-grant-application-numeri.html. I would like to thank Solomon and his grant manager, Jonathan Worthington, for all their work on this project. Solomon Foster writes: Introduction While I worked on this grant, Rakudo has matured into a capable compiler ready to go out into the world as Rakudo Star. The work done under this

On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to announce the July 2010 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the July 2010 release is available from Rakudo Star is aimed at "early adopters" of Perl 6. We know that it still has some bugs, it is far slower than it ought to be, and there are some

We have received the following Hague Grant application from Jonathan Worthington. Before the Board votes on this proposal we would like to have a period of community consultation. Please leave feedback in the comments or if you prefer send email with your comments to karen at perlfoundation.org. Name Jonathan Worthington Project Title Meta-model Improvements and Natively Typed Attributes Synopsis As Rakudo gains features, its relatively low performance is increasingly being

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the June period. This month was mainly spent on overload and symbol table bugs. Over the first 17 weeks I have now averaged about 17 hours per week, slightly less than the nominal 20. I have used up approx 55% of the hours allocated to the grant. Report for period 2010/06/01 to 2010/06/30 inclusive Summary Effort bq.

We have received the following Hague Grant application from Patrick Michaud. Before the Board votes on this proposal we would like to have a period of community consultation. Please leave feedback in the comments or if you prefer send email with your comments to karen at perlfoundation.org. Name: Patrick Michaud Project Title: Lists, Iterators, and Parcels Synopsis 7, 8, and other general Rakudo improvements Project Overview: This project will

We have received the following Hague Grant application from Gabor Szabo. Before the Board votes on this proposal we would like to have a period of community consultation. Please leave feedback in the comments or if you prefer send email with your comments to karen at perlfoundation.org. Grant title: Perl Ecosystem development group Name: Gabor Szabo Amount requested: $25,000 Synopsis: One of the objectives of the Ian Hague donation of