Tony writes: 2025/04/01 Tuesday 0.22 #23151 check CI results, fix minitest and re-push 1.77 #23160 try to decode how the NEED_ stuff works, try leont’s suggestion and test, push for CI 0.82 #22125 check smoke results, rebase and push 0.50 #21878 consider how to implement this 0.53 ppc #70 testing, comment 3.84 2025/04/02 Wednesday 0.23 #23075 rebase and squash some, push for

Paul writes: As earlier reported, I managed to make some progress on the faster-signatures work, as well as some other things. 2 Bugfix for assigning operator https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/23242 1 Exception handling during defer/finally https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/23244 4 faster-signatures and CVf_NOSNAIL performance work https://github.com/leonerd/perl5/tree/faster-signatures 2 Signature helper functions in class.c https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/3e684b47ee6bec19678c13d8f10b6824ab4c286b Total: 9 hours

Dave writes: A bit of a quiet month. I checked blead for any performance regressions compared with 5.40.0, using Porting/bench.pl. I found only one significant one: UTF8 string literals were inadvertently no longer being created Copy-on-Write. I created a PR which improves how OPs are dumped on threaded builds. This will make certain types of debugging easier in the future. Fixed a bug. Tweaked my ParseXS AST

Tony writes: 2025/03/03 Monday 0.83 #23015 research and comment 0.22 #23012 research and comment 0.45 #22827 review updates and re-approve 0.68 amagic_call/coverity follow-up, work on a fix, commit message wording, check is clangsa picks this up 0.15 amagic_call/coverity, commit message, push for CI 0.28 #22642 review updates and approve 0.78 #23044 research and comment 3.39 2025/03/04 Tuesday 0.80 #23012 comment,

Tony writes: 2025/02/03 Monday 0.28 ppc 30/31 list catch up 0.13 github notifications 0.08 #22955 briefly comment 0.62 #22956 review, testing and comment 0.23 #22957 review and approve 0.30 #22958 review and approve 0.42 #22970 review and approve 0.92 #22917 review, research, testing and approve 2.98 2025/02/04 Tuesday 0.45 github notifications 0.23 #22955 review and approve 1.27 #22963

Dave writes: This is my monthly report on work done during Mar and Apr 2025, covered by my TPF perl core maintenance grant. I spent most of my time continuing to refactor Extutils::ParseXS, as a precursor to adding reference-counted stack abilities to XS. In particular, I've recently pushed a large PR, intended to be merged once 5.42.0 is done, which converts ParseXS to create an AST for each XSUB it

Stefan has now come to a conclusion of his efforts with RakuAST. This mammoth task started previously by Jonathan Worthington. In the time since his award of the grant, he has made 823 commits to RakuAST, and his overall contribution to Raku in the past couple of years is second only to the very prolific Elizabeth Mattijsen. His contributions can be viewed on github. It is impossible to describe all

Paul writes: Hours: 4.5 SV vstring API https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/23075 1.5 PERL_MAGIC_env independence in hv.c https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/23076 4 HvSTASHAUX https://github.com/leonerd/perl5/tree/hv-stashaux 3 Rename any and all features https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/23105 Total: 13 hours

The Perl Community Roundtable met on March 21, via Zoom, and the following discussions were presented: Remembrance The Community Roundtable took a moment to remember Andrew Main and discussed his contributions to the Perl community over many years. North American Conference Planning Ruth Holloway, Conference Chair Planning for the 2025 TPRC is well underway; speaker selection is almost completed, and registration is open now at Eventbrite. The conference will be

For some time now, the TPRF has hosted a monthly "Communities and Reps" meeting, when bits of the community could get together and talk about what's going on in our diverse group of subcommunities. Beginning this week, we're expanding on this meeting, and turning it into the "Community Roundtable." Join us this Friday, 21 March, at 1730 UTC, via Zoom. Why Should I Attend? We hear it all the time

Tony writes: 2025/01/06 Monday 0.67 #22695 testing, follow-up 0.43 github notifications 0.75 #22804 research and comment 0.22 #22824 research and comment 1.08 #22882 research and comment 1.18 #22883 review discussion, work on test code 4.33 2025/01/07 Tuesday 0.25 #22888 testing and comment 0.08 #22868 briefly comment 0.33 #22864 review and approve 0.20 #22865 review and approve 0.38 #22889

Tony writes: 2024/12/02 Monday 0.18 github notifications 0.70 #22773 review updates, testing and approve 0.15 #22792 look over test failures, comment 0.30 #22788 rebase. squash and push for CI 0.38 #22799 review, research, comment and approve 0.33 #22795 review and approve 0.65 #22797 review and approve, research and comment 0.18 #22792 follow-up 0.22 #22784 review CI, apply to blead, perldelta

Early Bird Registration remains open for the Perl and Raku Conference 2025 in Greenville, SC, at the early price of $275. Ticket prices go up to $350 on April 15, so get your tickets right away! The conference team is working hard to put together a great program of speakers to help celebrate the Perl and Raku languages. Come on down to the Palmetto State and spend time with friends

Tony O'Dell has been working on a modernised and well documented Ecosystem management platform zeco. This is complex work that integrates contributor management and distro management, and is a vital cog in the evolution of a programming language and its accessibilty to its users. The handling of updates and secure,reliable, reproducible access to distros underpins the sustainable viability of such a platform. It was supported by this grant. Key to

Paul writes: Hours: 4 Regexp global pos API https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/22971 2 faster-signatures parser reshaping https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/22967 3 Lexical method invocation operator 1 Bugfix lexical methods field/signature https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/23030 https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/23031 Total: 10 hours

Dave writes: This is my monthly report on work done during Jan and Feb 2025, covered by my TPF perl core maintenance grant. I spent some time continuing to do various bits of code refactoring and test-adding on Extutils::ParseXS, as a precursor to adding reference-counted stack abilities to XS. I also fixed a bug in regexes which have embedded code blocks where, if the code-block code recurses and calls the

Jason Crome (CROMEDOME on CPAN Authors) has submitted his final report for his project documenting Dancer2. A comprehensive documentation with tutorials and a cookbook that should enable easy engagement with this very useful framework, this is presented in a professional yet accessible way.

Paul writes: I only did about an hour in December, so I thought rather than submit a report for a single hour, I'd just roll it into this month's. For December: 1 Final merge tasks for any and all https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/22773/ For January: 0.5 Resync "Time::Piece" to CPAN https://metacpan.org/release/PEVANS/Time-Piece-1.35 4.5 "faster-signatures" experimentation into subroutine signature improvements https://github.com/leonerd/perl5/tree/faster-signatures 1 Implement my method syntax https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/22940 5 Reshaping the way

Registration is now open for the 2025 edition of The Perl and Raku Conference, to be held June 27-29 in Greenville, SC. Early bird tickets at $250 each are available now through April 15. We are expecting a full house in this year's more-compact venue, so get yourself signed up right away! Buy your tickets now on Eventbrite. If you haven't yet reserved your hotel room, you ought to do

Tony writes: 2024/11/04 Monday 1.83 #15861 research and comment, research SWIG behaviour and follow-up comment 0.08 #22717 review and approve 0.62 #22718 research and comment 0.32 #22720 start review, comments 0.45 #22720 more review, conditional approval 3.30 2024/11/05 Tuesday 0.93 #22718 provide a simple module version of the PR 0.17 #22720 check updates and approve 0.50 #22721 review, testing and