In accordance with the terms of my grant from TPF this is the monthly report for my work on improving Devel::Cover covering July 2013. This month I released Devel::Cover versions 1.05 and 1.06. The releases contain a number of patches and pull requests along with various little cleanups and other small fixes. The rest of the work this month was spent on p5cover. This is the project to get test

In accordance with the terms of my grant from TPF this is the monthly report for my work on improving Devel::Cover covering June 2013. This month I released Devel::Cover 1.04. The release contains a number of fixes from last month, along with performance improvements. The performance improvements are part of work package I started at the end of May and which continued into the beginning of June. They are primarily

In accordance with the terms of my grant from TPF this is the monthly report for my work on improving Devel::Cover covering May 2013. In May Perl 5.18.0 was released. 5.18.0 introduced a new padrange operator and I had failed to note the full implications for Devel::Cover. So, a couple of days after 5.18.0 was released I released Devel::Cover 1.03 which works correctly with the new operator, and contains a

Introduction Opening Remarks Being asked to write a piece celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary, in essence a Silver Celebration, since the first release of the Perl Programming language was both a joy and a terror. Where would I start, what would I include, what approach should I take? It is a significant prospect as the sheer depth of history can only be matched by the breadth of influence that Perl has

Once again we will be attempting to participate in the ""Google Code-In":http://":http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2012

It isn't often enough that I get to speak about the way that the Perl Foundation spends the money that is so generously donated to it. Often they are the subjects of the annual reports from Karen and Dan and are presented at the yearly Yet Another Perl Conferences. Most of these funds are used as part of our excellent programmes to improve Perl via direct sponsorship of people such

The Perl Foundation is pleased to be working with and promoting Kevin Carillo's research into newcomer experience and contributor behavior in Perl and other FOSS communities. You also can help by taking the time to "fill out this survey":https://limesurvey.sim.vuw.ac.nz/index.php?sid=89971&lang=en. Kevin is a PhD candidate in the School of Information Management at Victoria University of Wellington. His research topic is about the influence of newcomer experience on contributor behaviour and performance

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

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

by Paul Johnson In accordance with the terms of my grant from TPF this is the monthly report for my work on improving Devel::Cover covering June 2012. This month I released Devel::Cover 0.88 and 0.89. I looked into "https://rt.perl.org/rt3//Public/Bug/Display.html?id=113464":https://rt.perl.org/rt3//Public/Bug/Display.html?id=113464 which is a perl bug, but is related to warnings when running Devel::Cover. I supplied a core patch to quieten the warnings which has been applied, but I also changed Devel::Cover