I'm happy to announce that Ricardo Signes has become the newest member of the Perl Foundation board. His is the first board appointment following the new, more public, selection process we recently announced. Thanks to Rik for agreeing to be the first to use this process and to the community for the comments and feedback following his nomination. We look forward to Rik's continued contributions to the Perl community, now ... read more |
Perl 6: Bugfixing and Performance of Rationals Fixing Constraints on Constants Name: Zoffix Znet Amount Requested: USD 1,999 Synopsis The proposal is to perform two pieces of work on the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler along with a third bonus piece: 1. Implement support for type constraints on constants and polish some of the rough edges with and constants initializer calls. 2. Fix several bugs and a race ... read more |
The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the March/April round. Perl 6: Bugfixing and Performance of Rationals Fixing Constraints on Constants Before the Committee members vote on the proposals, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community. Review the proposals at their individual links and please comment there by April 7th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion ... read more |
In This Issue: Keynote speaker: VM Brasseur: https:// bit.ly/2ujDlar BoF registration open: http://bit.ly/2GB1Fqy Register to attend TPC! https://goo.gl/tgUQRt Book your conference lodging https://goo.gl/RNBqb3 Speaker invitations sent March 21st Stay in touch Keynote Speaker: VM Brasseur VM spent most of her 20 years in the tech industry leading software development departments and teams, and providing technical management and leadership consulting for small and medium businesses. Now she leverages nearly 30 years ... read more |
The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period is upon us. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, please consider submitting a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 March 27th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback through April 3rd, and ... read more |
This is a monthly report by Tony Cook on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. Approximately 24 tickets were reviewed, and 6 patches were applied 2.60 #125351 testing, sidetracked into unrelated failure, have reproduction problems, back to original testing, apply to blead #125351 look at minor re-work of patch, which apparently I’d already ... read more |
As has been announced previously, TPF is working on a process to allow for more public participation in adding new board members. I'm happy to present Ricardo Signes as our first new board candidate nominated with the new process. Ricardo is well known to the Perl community as a former pumpking and he offers some addition background in his bio below. Ricardo Signes spent four years studying philosophy and religion ... read more |
In This Issue: Speakers announced! http://bit.ly/2p6Ui1X Last call to submit a talk! https://goo.gl/prFcXk Register today! https://goo.gl/tgUQRt Book your conference lodging https://goo.gl/RNBqb3 Stay in touch! Round 1 and Round 2 Speakers Announced! Speakers/Sessions: http://bit.ly/2p6Ui1X Head on over to see if your favorite speaker is returning this year. If they aren’t listed, encourage them to submit! Last Call to Submit a Talk! Yes! Submit your proposal before March 18th to have your ... read more |
Round 2 CFP notifications have been sent! Check your email if you submitted by 2/26/2018. Notifications sent from admin@perlconference.us Round 3 CFP is still open! https://goo.gl/forms/I5a5XneNsm4Vq93D2 #TPCiSLC ... read more |
Timo has made good progress and is writing about it. Please see: Delays and Delights Delays and Delights Hi, my name is timotimo and I'm a Perl 6 developer. I've set up this blog to write reports on my TPF Grant Before the actual report starts, I'd like to issue an apology. In between my grant application and the grant being accepted I developed a bit of RSI that lasted ... read more |
This is a monthly report by Dave Mitchell on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. I have spent the last month mainly doing two things: Fixing various issues with overloading and the new multiconcat op. I decided that rather than continue adding more and more special-case handling to the existing code, I would handle the overloading in pp_multiconcat ... read more |
The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the January 2018 round. There were six proposals in this round. Curating and improving Perl6 documentation Voting results: Approved and funded: 5 yes, 1 abstention, 1 no with a score of 15 Some voters expressed concern about the comments/feedback posted on the grant. It is our hope that the requestor will work closely with the community when implementing this grant. Future grants ... read more |
This is the report from zefram on his Perl 5 grant under the Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund for February 2018. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. The hours that I have worked in 2018-02 pursuant to my TPF core maintenance grant are as follows. 10h47m Blead Breaks CPAN: MAROS/DateTime-Format-CLDR-1.19.tar.gz 8h52m review mail 3h08m COW bug in :encoding layer 2h45m Blead ... read more |
In This Issue: Last Call for Tutorial Sessions https://goo.gl/1GV14L Last Round for Speaker Submissions open https://goo.gl/forms/PkYHWD3B4vUKZLrW2 Event Registration http://bit.ly/2CO9jum Room Reservation http://bit.ly/2oEtzK0 Want to Sponsor The Perl Conference? treasurer@perlfoundation.org Last Call for Tutorial Sessions Are you an experienced instructor or speaker who would like to offer a course at The Perl Conference this year in Salt Lake City? We hereby invite you to participate by submitting a Tutorial Session! We ... read more |
As communicated previously.... The Perl Foundation is a non-profit, 501 organization based in the United States. Currently its board of directors has six members and TPF will start annual nomination and election process of new members. Bringing new people to the board regularly, with some community input, will allow the organization to grow and increase its output. Here are the details: 1. Nomination A new member should be nominated by ... read more |
In This Issue: We Have a Location! TPC 2018 Returning to Salt Lake City, Utah Sponsors Welcome! Register today! Event Registration Now Open Book Your Rooms! Room Reservation Now Open Hotel room types Why are some rooms cheaper than others? We Have a Website! More information there We’re Still Accepting Talk Submissions! Check Your Email! First Round Notifications sent 2/6 2/7 ... read more |
The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the January/February round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on the proposal. Review the proposal below and please comment here by February 20th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced the last week of February. Perl-Based CloudForFree.org Platform Name: John ... read more |
The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposals for the January/February round. Perl Camp in Democratic Republic of Congo Curating and improving Perl6 documentation MySQL Support In RPerl Compiler List Operators In RPerl Compiler OS Installation Packages for RPerl Compiler Perl-Based CloudForFree.org Platform Before the Committee members vote on the proposals, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community. Review the proposals at their individual links and ... read more |
The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the January/February round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on the proposal. Review the proposal below and please comment here by February 20th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced the last week of February. OS Installation Packages for RPerl Compiler ... read more |
The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the January/February round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on the proposal. Review the proposal below and please comment here by February 20th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced the last week of February. List Operators In RPerl Compiler Name: ... read more |
The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the January/February round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on the proposal. Review the proposal below and please comment here by February 20th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced the last week of February. MySQL Support In RPerl Compiler Name: ... read more |
The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the January/February round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on the proposal. Review the proposal below and please comment here by February 20th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced the last week of February. Curating and improving Perl6 documentation Name: ... read more |
The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the January/February round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on the proposal. Review the proposal below and please comment here by February 20th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced the last week of February. Please note that this particular request ... read more |
This is a monthly report by Dave Mitchell on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. The main thing I did last month was to fix a bunch of issues with tr///c. Initially I was just working on a particular ticket, then noticed that tr///c was almost completed untested in core, and had a bunch of issues, and I ... read more |
This is a monthly report by Tony Cook on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. Approximately 29 tickets were reviewed, and 6 patches were applied 34.99 #127743 try to work up makefile rules for new stack limit handling #127743 more makefile rules, work on fetching config from var instead of a constant #127743 ... read more |
Jonathan Worthington recently requested an extension of his Perl 6 Performance and Reliability Engineering grant. I'm pleased to announce that the Board of Directors approved extension of another $10,000. It'll allow him to dedicate another 400 hours to this work. Additional $210 of expense was approved to cover the wire tranfer fee from the past payments and the next payment. I would like to thank the community members who took ... read more |
This is a monthly report by Zefram on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. The hours that I have worked in 2018-01 pursuant to my TPF core maintenance grant are as follows. 9h33m review mail 5h31m review tickets 2h40m Bleadperl v5.27.6-206-g16ada235c3 breaks JGAMBLE/Algorithm-QuineMcCluskey-0.16.tar.gz 2h14m Subroutine doesn't create elements. 1h57m Cwd: different return ... read more |
This is a monthly report by Tony Cook on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. Approximately 4 tickets were reviewed or worked on. 22.84 #127743 32-bit build warnings/build issues #127743 finish up 32-bit testing, commits, work on other unaddressed Storable issues, 64-bit frozen data #127743 handle 32-bit frozen data as unsigned, add support ... read more |
Timo Paulssen is recovering from a repetitive strain injury, and has not been able to start work on the grant yet. While waiting for the condition to get better, Timo has been watching videos related to the technologies he will be using. Moving apartments in January has been another issue bothering Timo. Timo is very eager to start working on the grant as soon as he is able to. ... read more |
Are you an experienced instructor or speaker who would like to offer a course at The Perl Conference this year in Salt Lake City? Great! We hereby invite you to participate by submitting a Tutorial Session! We would like to offer the Perl community a selection of courses and tutorials before and after the conference. This is your chance to be a part of that. Tutorial Sessions can be a ... read more |
The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period is upon us. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, consider submitting a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 February 11th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback through February 18th, and conclude ... read more |
Jonathan Worthington has requested an extension of $10,000 for his Perl 6 Performance and Reliability Engineering grant. This will allow him to dedicate another 200 hours to this work. His previous work was successfully delivered as reported in the latest report. This funding will come from the Perl 6 Core Development Fund. Will Coke Coleda agreed to continue the grant manager's role. Before we make a decision on this extension ... read more |
UPDATE: Inline submission link previously missing. This has been fixed. For convenience, it is also here: https://goo.gl/forms/L2BH3TjqFQKpQfwp1 The Perl Conference is a high-quality, inexpensive, technical Conference that celebrates the Perl programming language. The beauty of The Perl Conference is that it remains accessible to everyone regardless of experience, yet it is still valuable to the most skilled programmers. Each year the conference attracts hundreds of programmers from around the world, ... read more |
We are pleased to FINALLY bring you the news everyone has been waiting for! It is with great enthusiasm that we happily announce The Perl Conference in North America, 2018 will be held Sunday, June 17th through Friday, June 22nd at the Little America Hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah! The main event will run from Monday, June 18th through Wednesday, June 20th. Master Classes, training, and other activities will ... read more |
This is a monthly report by Zefram on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. The hours that I have worked in 2017-12 pursuant to my TPF core maintenance grant are as follows. 22h40m socket SOCK_CLOEXEC 21h58m review tickets 16h19m review mail 12h47m smartmatch 11h19m Perl segfaults in BEGIN, write to null pointer, ... read more |
This is a monthly report by Tony Cook on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. Two tickets were worked on. 17.98 #127743 work out a practical fix, work on implementation #127743 finish implementation testing #127743 commit, work on fix for network retrieves of large objects, fix some -DDEBUGGING build issues #127743 build issues, ... read more |
More good stuff this month from Tinita on the grant Complete YAML::PP. She explains the YAML schema concept and its evolving flavors in this interesting post. This lays the foundation for understanding the schema features added to the YAML::PP loader. Tina also fixed a couple of problems in YAML::XS. An important one security-wise is that now you can turn off loading into Perl objects by default when using |
This is a monthly report by Dave Mitchell on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. I spent last month mainly: Fixing some more issues thrown up by the new OP_MULTICONCAT optimisation; Working on a few fuzzer tickets 7:01 BBC: MULTICONCAT: Mail-SpamAssassin-3.4.1 affected too 4:27 OP_MULTICONCAT failure on Z/OS 1:55 RT #132187 heap-buffer-overflow in Perl_fbm_instr ... read more |
This is a monthly report by Dave Mitchell on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. I spent last month mainly: Fixing some issues thrown up by the new OP_MULTICONCAT optimisation; Fixing some regressions in deparse testing: 't/TEST -deparse' feeds every test suite script through the deparser before trying to run it; about 6 scripts that formerly ... read more |
Help needed for the 2018 TPC::NA The Perl Conference in America, formerly YAPC::NA, has put forward a formal call for volunteers to help out with next year's event. Perl has likely helped you, we could even say it has been helping you to pay your bills? This may be your chance to give back to the community that isn't writing code. TPC::NA 2018 is looking for volunteers to organize the ... read more |
Tinita, the one-woman YAML ecosystem, continues apace with her grant Complete YAML::PP. Find her latest report on her blog. She is making headway on some of the cooler features of YAML: flow style, anchors, and special tags. Legit boolean behavior is now implemented in YAML::XS. The blog post provides a nice rundown of the 4 ways to quote in YAML. Wondering what all the fuss is about? check out Tina's ... read more |
This is the first report from Zefram on his Perl 5 grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. The hours that I have worked in 2017-11 pursuant to my TPF core maintenance grant are as follows. 30h25m smartmatch 15h15m state 12h08m review tickets 9h54m review mail 8h26m no warnings "module name" 3h46m negative-size-param in ... read more |
The Perl Foundation is a non-profit, 501 organization based in the United States. Currently its board of directors has seven members and TPF plans to start annual nomination and election process of new members. Bringing new people to the board regularly, with some community input, will allow the organization to grow and increase its output. The below is proposed process of nomination and election of new board members, which will ... read more |
A Proud History The long time supporters of the Perl community, world-class business ,and a leading employer of Perl programmers worldwide, has added a generous sponsorship to the Core Maintenance Fund. It is a great privilege to announce that they have added one hundred thousand dollars to the initiative. have been supporters of the fund since its inception and have long championed the important work that this brings to ... read more |
This is a monthly report by Dave Mitchell on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. I didn't do much TPF grant work for the last two months, as I was mainly working on OP_MULTICONCAT, which was funded by Booking.com. That's also why there's been a dearth of weekly reports. The main thing I did was making a few ... read more |
During the last month, Chad Granum did some notable progress on the grant. As Chad points out: I got it to the point where I felt comfortable publishing it to cpan, despite being incomplete: https://metacpan.org/pod/Test2::Manual that includes: Spell check test, to correct my typos Added Anatomy section to describe Test2 guts Added Anatomy for Events and Facets Finished the Tooling/FirstTool document Added the Tooling/Nesting document ... read more |
As part of the Perl 6 core development fund, Jonathan Worthington has completed another 200 hour block of hours, and his report of what was completed follows the break. Many thanks to the TPF sponsors of this and other grants. If you're interested in supporting work like this, please donate: http://donate.perlfoundation.org/ Grant Completion Report: Perl 6 Performance and Reliability Engineering At the end of July, I was granted a 200 ... read more |
Tony Cook recently requested an extension of his Maintaining the Perl 5 Grant. I'm pleased to announce that the Board of Directors approved extension of another $20,000. It'll allow him to dedicate another 400 hours to this work. I would like to thank the community members who took time to comment on this grant extension request and our sponsors who made funding the grant possible through our Perl 5 Core ... read more |
This is a monthly report by Tony Cook on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. Approximately 23 tickets were reviewed, and 7 patches were applied 0.33 #122807 review discussion 0.45 #124349 review discussion and apply patch 0.40 #125619 review discussion, research, briefly comment 0.25 #125760 review discussion, add to 5.30 blockers for make ... read more |
The Grants Committee has expended its budget for the period ending with 2017. In accordance with the TPF rules of operation grants evaluations are stalled until further notice. I'm expecting that we'll be able to re-open evaluations starting in the January 2018 period. Thanks to all the TPF sponsors that make the grants process possible. Please consider becoming one and donating at http://donate.perlfoundation.org/ If you have further questions, please contact ... read more |
The Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund was established at YAPC::NA 2011 by Jesse Vincent and Karen Pauley as a continuation of the previous Booking.com grant. It is intended to be "used for the maintenance and improvement of the Perl 5 core." Since its inception, the P5CMF has received over half of a million dollars in donations, and has provided funding for eight different individuals to contribute over 9,000 service hours ... read more |
This is a monthly report by Tony Cook on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. Approximately 47 tickets were reviewed, and 7 patches were applied. 7.13 #122112 work on a fix #122112 more work on a fix #122112 debugging #122112 debugging #122112 debugging, look for a different approach 2.31 #124256 re-work patch ... read more |
Chad has been working on his Test2 manual. The fact that he is, also, maintaining Test2 modules, and implementing or refactoring some portions of these modules make the documentation process harder, as it need the changes done before documenting them. Nevertheless, in the last month, Chad has been updating the documentation given outdated information, and added some new sections. He also added a lot of new section titles referring subjects ... read more |
Have you ever felt like you'd love to do more for the Perl community? Have you ever been at a YAPC or TPC and thought "I know JUST the way to improve this aspect of the conference!"? Have you been wanting to donate hours and hours of your time and just not been able to find the perfect place to do so? If you answered "Yes!" to any ... read more |
Tony Cook has requested an extension of $20,000 for his Maintaining the Perl 5 grant. This will allow him to dedicate another 400 hours to this work. During this grant he sent regular reports to the p5p mailing list as well as providing monthly summary reports that have been published on this site, the most recent of which are linked below: August 2017 July 2017 May/June 2017 Before we make ... read more |
The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the September 2017 round. There were two proposals in this round. Rakudo Perl 6 performance analysis tooling Performance Analysis Voting results: 7 Yes votes, and 2 abstentions with a score of 33 This grant is approved, and will be funded. Start Act Voyager Voyager Voting results: 2 Yes votes, 1 abstention, and 6 No votes This grant is not approved. Concerns were ... read more |
Tinita has already achieved much in a short time on her grant to Complete YAML::PP. She has provided full details at blogs.perl.org. Some highlights: Produced YAML::PP::Lexer, ::Parser, ::Dumper, ::Emitter, ::Reader, ::Highlight Continued work towards full YAML 1.2 compliance Allows Unicode chars Bugfixes, refactors and miscellaneous doodads Code is on github. You're wondering "What's so cool about this?" Check out Tinita's talk where you can learn all about the secret features ... read more |
Samantha has submitted her last grant update and her final review of her work for the consideration of the community and the Grants Committee. Highlights for the latest month of work include: Her Unicode Collation Algorithm is fully merged into MoarVM She has released full UCA documentation Prepends are handled with more generality, so that edge cases in certain ops now work properly Bugs in encoding into and handling UTF8-C8 ... read more |
The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the September/October round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on the proposal. Review the proposal below and please comment here by September 26th, 2017. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced the first week of October. Act Voyager Name: Theo van ... read more |
The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the September/October round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on the proposal. Review the proposal below and please comment here by September 26th, 2017. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced the first week of October. Rakudo Perl 6 performance analysis tooling ... read more |
In the last two months Chad has been working mostly on the Test2 code than in the documentation itself. This way he can document the final version of the API and do not need to, later, rewrite the docs. This work included the new event system. Chad released the stable version of Test2 two days ago, and therefore he is now resuming his work on the documentation. ... read more |
This is a monthly report by Dave Mitchell on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. I didn't do much TPF work last month; I was mainly instead doing work funded by Booking.com. What time I did spend was mainly fixing a few 'blead breaks perl' tickets. SUMMARY: 1:34 RT #131938 BBC Imager-1.005.tar.gz 2:00 RT #131942 BBC ... read more |
This is a monthly report by Tony Cook on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. Approximately 42 tickets were reviewed, and 9 patches were applied 0.53 #124368 retesting, apply to blead 4.13 #127663 testing, fix issues on Win32, more testing #127663 more testing, push smoke branch 0.57 #128263 retest, apply to blead 1.08 ... read more |
The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period is upon us. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, consider submitting a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 September 16th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback through September 23rd, and conclude ... read more |
This is a monthly report by Tony Cook on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. Approximately 38 tickets were reviewed, and 3 patches were applied 0.12 #p5p POSIX 2008 locale api discussion with khw 4.00 #124368 work up a decent test, find a difference between threaded/non-threaded, work up a patch, testing #124368 more testing, ... read more |
This is a monthly report by Dave Mitchell on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. I spent June mainly: finishing off the heavy reworking of perl's internal sprintf implementation. This has now been merged into blead. It contains about 100 commits which fixes bugs, audits the code for possible integer overflows, makes the code simpler ... read more |
In her excellent overview of Unicode presented at YAPC-EU, Samantha gives us her take on Perl6 Unicode: “Torture the implementers for the sake of the users.” Perl6 Unicode users will certainly have some wonderfully easy access to deep Unicode magic thanks to her work. But reading her blog, I get a distinct impression of delight, rather than torture... In her complete blog post, she describes, among other details: Implementation of ... read more |
The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the July 2017 round. There was one proposal in this round. Complete YAML::PP Complete YAML::PP Voting results: 8 Yes votes, and 1 abstention with a score of 40 This grant is approved, and will be funded. Tina's previous work in this area and enthusiasm were mentioned. Next Round Our next round will be in September; we've been running a little late in ... read more |
I'm pleased to report that The Perl Foundation has renewed its associate level membership in the Unicode Consortium. This membership allows Perl core developers to be on the "inside track" when it comes to the future of Unicode standards. It also gives them access to documents and people that have made the development of Unicode support in Perl easier. The Perl Foundation is pleased to be able to make this ... read more |
In an effort to improve transparency, we have recently released a finance report for The Perl Conference in Alexandria One of the major expenses in this report was for hotel attrition. In this news article, I will explain what hotel attrition is and what TPF is doing to respond to it. In the early days of "YAPC" the conference was held on college campuses in North America. Typically a number ... read more |
The inchstones are falling like 1F030—1F09F as Samantha makes further progress on her grant to improve the robustness of Unicode support in Rakudo. In her complete blog post, she describes: Implementation of a fully working Unicode Collation Algorithm with only 82 of 190,377 tests failing 100% of Emoji 4.0 emoji are treated as a single grapheme, enabling MoarVM to advertise full Unicode 9.0/Emoji 4.0 text segmentation support. ... read more |
Let me start out by apologizing for the delay in this posting, it's highly overdue; the question of whether or not funding was available turned out to be slightly more complicated than anyone anticipated.... As previously posted, one grant was posted in this period: Revitalize blogs.perl.org Voting results were: 5, 5, 5, 5, 4, 0, Abstain, No. This resulted in a an approval status, and I'm happy to announce the ... read more |
The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the July/August round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on the proposal. Review the proposal below and please comment here by August 14th, 2017. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced approximately one week after public comments. Complete YAML::PP Name: ... read more |
This is a monthly report by Tony Cook on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. May report Approximately 12 tickets were reviewed. 0.57 in @INC follow-up for File::Fetch #11 1.98 #128207 debugging #128207 more debugging, comment 0.53 #130591 review discussion, provide updated patch 0.17 #131000 review discussion 1.31 #131062 work on a ... read more |
After an amazing 17 years of serving The Perl Foundation in various roles, Kurt DeMaagd has stepped down from his board position. Kurt was one of the original founders of TPF in addition to being a founder of slashdot.org. As the original treasurer, Kurt set up all of the initial financial components of TPF, then known as Yet Another Society, and we have since distributed over $1 million in grant ... read more |
Dave Mitchell recently requested an extension of his Maintaining Perl 5 grant. I'm pleased to announce that the Board of Directors approved extension of another $20,000. It'll allow him to dedicate another 333 hours to this work. I would like to thank the community members who took time to comment on this grant extension request and our sponsors who made funding the grant possible through our Perl 5 Core Maintenance ... read more |
This report is being provided to the Perl community in an effort to improve transparency. The Perl Conference 2017 was held at the US Patent and Trademark office in Alexandria, VA from June 18th through Saturday June 23rd, 2017. Total attendance was 245. This marks the second year in a row that attendance was below 250. The total expenses for this event were $93,769, which is lower than recent years. ... read more |
I am pleased to announce that the TPF Board of Directors approved the grant proposal Zefram maintaining the Perl 5 Core. This will allow him to dedicate 200 hours to the work. I appreciate TPF donors who made this possible and all the people who gave us feedback on this grant. I hope Zefram's work will benefit the community. ... read more |
The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period has come. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, consider sending a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 August 5th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback through August 12th, and conclude acceptance ... read more |
The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the May 2017 round There was one proposal in this round, which was approved. I am currently working with the treasurer to verify funding. Voting results: 6 Yes votes, 1 No Vote, and 1 abstention with a score of 24 Big thanks to André Walker for his patience as I become accustomed to the GC workflow. I am very hopeful that funding ... read more |
Jonathan Worthington's request to extend Perl 6 Performance and Reliability Engineering by $10,000 has been approved. This will allow him to dedicate another 200 hours to this work. I appreciate TPF donors who made this possible and all the people who gave us feedback on this grant. I hope Jonathan's work will continue to benefit the community. ... read more |
brian d foy reported that his grant is completed. brian gave us a list of talks/movies as follows: Amsterdam.pm on June 8 French Perl Workshop on June 10 London.pm on June 29 PerlTricks.com article I appreciate TPF donors who made this possible, all the people who gave us feedback on this grant, and brian, who delivered the quality results. I am personally looking forward to brian's talk at NY.pm, which ... read more |
Too Long need Limerick: There once was a Trog in Houston He saw a committee being reduced in Now he's a chair and full of despair He needs people introduced in. If you didn't happen to make it to the TPC this year and see one of the cutest lightening talks this year, this may come as news to you. There is still a Community Advocacy Committee. For those who ... read more |
Samantha continues to address the addition of Unicode features and long-standing Unicode bugs in her grant to improve the robustness of Unicode support in Rakudo. In her complete blog post, she describes: the Unicode collation algorithm in a very readable overview, and her improvements to enable customizable collation at all three main collation levels support for the |
brian d foy's Perl 6 Travel Grant Proposal has been approved. The payment will be made after Presentation at Amsterdam.pm and London.pm Slides are published Articles are published based on the talks Recorded presentation is published Thank you for those who gave us valuable feedback and thank you for the TPF donors for making it happen. ... read more |
Jonathan Worthington has requested an extension of $10,000 for his Perl 6 Performance and Reliability Engineering grant. This will allow him to dedicate another 200 hours to this work. His previous work was successfully delivered as reported in the This funding will come from the Before we make a decision on this extension we would like to have a period of community consultation that will last for seven days. Please ... read more |
Dave Mitchell has requested an extension of $20,000 for his Maintaining the Perl 5 Core grant. He also has requested an hourly rate change from $50 to $60. This will allow him to dedicate another 333 hours to this work. During this grant he sent regular reports to the p5p mailing list as well as providing monthly summary reports that have been published on this site, the most recent of ... read more |
This is a monthly report by Dave Mitchell on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. I spent May mainly: heavily reworking perl's internal sprintf implementation. I've now pushed a smoking branch containing about 100 commits which fixes bugs, audits the code for possible integer overflows, makes the code simpler and simpler to understand, and improves ... read more |
In this issue: Sunday Arrival Dinner Tuesday Night Social: Get to know your fellow attendees! Tutorials spaces still available Call for Speakers: Lightning Talks Call for Volunteers Arrival Dinner Sunday June 18 Arrangements have been made with Zikrayet Restaurant and Lounge to host a large crowd for The Perl Conference Arrival Dinner. Given the nature of the place, it will be possible to make this ... read more |
As some readers may recall, I mentioned in a previous post that we were evaluating whether to maintain the Community Advocacy Committee. This announcement was enough to move Mark Prather to action. He wrote to me shortly after the blog post went up and asked what he could do to help keep this committee and its mission alive. The answer was become the new committee chair and I'm happy to ... read more |
Samantha McVey has made progress on her grant to improve the robustness of Unicode support in Rakudo. She is working in the following repos: https://github.com/samcv/UCD, https://github.com/samcv/Unicode-Grant. Here are a few highlights from her complete blog post. "In Roast there is a new version of GraphemeBreakTest.t. The script tests the contents of each grapheme individually from the GraphemeClusterBreak.txt file from the Unicode 9.0 test suite. Previously we only checked the ... read more |
Zoffix Znet provided this report on May 29, 2017 The Grants Committee will vote on its completion and payment. If you have feedback or questions, please comment here COMPLETION Report Perl 6 IO TPF Grant This document is the May, 2017 progress report for I believe I reasonably satisfied the goals of the grant and consider it completed. This is the final report and may reference some of the work/commits ... read more |
The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the May/June round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on the proposal. Review the proposal below and please comment here by June 15th, 2017. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced approximately in one week. Revitalize blogs.perl.org Name: Andr� Walker Amount ... read more |
TPF Board has received a new grant application under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. Before we vote on this proposal, we would like to get feedback from the Perl community. Please leave feedback in the comments or, if you prefer, email your comments to makoto at perlfoundation.org. IRC nickname: Zefram project title: Zefram maintaining the Perl 5 core ###synopsis I'd like a grant to work on the Perl 5 core, ... read more |
TPF Board has received a new grant application as below. Before we vote on this proposal, we would like to get feedback from the Perl community. Please leave feedback in the comments or, if you prefer, email your comments to makoto at perlfoundation.org. Perl 6 Travel Grant Name: brian d foy Amount Requested: $2,500 Synopsis I'm passing through Europe in June and can extend my trip on either side to ... read more |
The Perl Conference, 2017 will be held this year in Washington DC, at the US Patent and Trademark Office, from June 18 through June 23rd. This is the conference that many of us have affectionately known as YAPC::NA::17. If you haven't registered yet, please do so as soon as possible. We want to make sure we're providing the best possible experience for our participants, and to that end, accurate registration ... read more |
The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period has come. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, consider sending a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 June 2nd UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback and conclude acceptance by June 12th. ... read more |
This is a monthly report by Dave Mitchell on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. The main things I did last month were: Fixd require's "Can't locate" error message so that it only mentions @INC if @INC was actually searched, and only gives the "you may need to install" hint if the filename maps to a ... read more |
The first full day of OSCON sessions, the expo hall, and the hallway track was fun and interesting as always. The Perl Foundation has a great booth this year, right by the O'Reilly booth. We had a great day talking to Perl programmers new and veteran about what's new in the Perl community and in their Perl projects. It's also great to see that O'Reilly still shows the love for ... read more |
The Perl Foundation is excited to have a booth at OSCON again this year. As part of our booth information and outreach we've put together a summary of some of the activities in the Perl world from 2016. Perl 5 The Perl 5 teams continued the steady release of new versions of Perl 5 with the release of 5.24 in 2016. This release included enhancements to regular expressions, Unicode 8.0 ... read more |
Chad Granun has been working on his Test2 documentation grant, sharing the time with a new family member Although there are not big changes on the documentation, itself, Chad has been working on an update to the Event API for Test2. That is now almost complete, he will soon put it out for trial, and then stable. Once released he will be able to move back to Test2-Manual where he ... read more |
The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the March 2017 round. There were two proposals in this round: Improving the Robustness of Unicode Support… Improving the Robustness of Unicode Support in Rakudo on MoarVM Voting results: 6 Yes votes, and 2 abstentions with a score of 21 This grant is approved, and will be funded. Sam's previous contributions in this area make her likely to succeed in making marked ... read more |
Zoffix Znet provided this report on April 19, 2017 Perl 6 IO TPF Grant: Monthly Report This document is the April, 2017 progress report for Timing As proposed to and approved by the Grant Manager, I've extended the due date for this grant by 1 extra month, in exchange for doing some extra optimization work on IO routines at no extra cost. The new completion date is May 22nd; right ... read more |
This is a grant report by Jonathan Worthington on his grant under Perl 6 Core Development Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. I have completed the second 200 hours of my grant, funded by the Perl 6 core development fund. This report summarizes the work done during those 200 hours. In accordance with community feedback, the vast majority of effort has been put into reliability ... read more |
Work on the blogs.perl.org grant, started in November 2015, has stalled. With no progress reports from the grantee since November 2016, and after a number of attempts on all sides to jumpstart the work, the Grants Committee has voted to cancel the grant, as provided in the rules of operation. Many on the Committee and in the community would like to see a successful update of blogs.perl.org. With that in ... read more |
Tony Cook has requested an extension of $20,000 for his Maintaining the Perl 5 grant. This will allow him to dedicate another 400 hours to this work. During this grant he sent regular reports to the p5p mailing list as well as providing monthly summary reports that have been published on this site, the most recent of which are linked below: January 2017 December 2016 November 2016 October 2016 Before ... read more |
This is a monthly report by Dave Mitchell on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. The main things I did last month were: working on fuzzer-related tickets in the security queue; working on tickets in the 5.26 blocker queue; investigating the possibility of storing short strings directly in the head of an SV, eliminating the need for an ... read more |
Zoffix Znet provided this report on March 28, 2017 Perl 6 IO TPF Grant: Monthly Report This document is the March, 2017 progress report for Timing My delivery of the Action Plan was one week later than I originally expected to deliver it. The delay let me assess some of the big-picture consistency issues, which led to proposal to remove 15 methods from IO::Handle and to iron out naming and ... read more |
The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the March round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on the proposal. Review the proposal below and please comment here by April 12th, 2017. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced approximately in one week. RPerl User Documentation, Part 3 Name: ... read more |
The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the March round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on the proposal. Review the proposal below and please comment here by April 12th, 2017. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced approximately in one week. Improving the Robustness of Unicode Support in ... read more |
Please join me in welcoming John SJ Anderson as the newest voting member of The Perl Foundation's Grants Committee. John has helped organize several recent YAPCs, given talks and training at YAPCs, and maintains several modules on CPAN. Additionally, as Makoto Nozaki is transitioning to the secretary of the TPF Board, he is vacating the position of GC Secretary, and I have been selected to to fill the role. My ... read more |
Zoffix Znet provided this report on February 26, 2017 This document is the February, 2017 progress report for TPF Standardization, Test Coverage, and Documentation of Perl 6 I/O Routines grant Timing I'm currently running slightly behind the schedule outlined in the grant. I expect to complete the Action Plan and have it ratified by other core members by March 18th, which is the date of the 2017.03 compiler release. ... read more |
The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period has come. This month's round is a little later than usual, due to the selection of a new GC Secretary This round will be slightly compressed, and we'll strive to get back on track for the next round. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will ... read more |
We've been reviewing Perl Foundation committees over the last few months and I'm happy to report some new people have stepped into committee leadership roles. David Oswald is the new conferences committee chair. This position had gone vacant for a period as TPF Treasurer Dan Wright along with others took a more active role in planning for The Perl Conference. The board is happy to once again have someone in ... read more |
This is a monthly report by Dave Mitchell on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. The main things I did last month were: Firstly, fixing various issues with scopes in regexes. In particular, code blocks sometimes failed to undo localisations when backtracking. For example the $s below wasn't always being restored when the B part of the match ... read more |
The Perl Foundation is excited to announce that Makoto Nozaki, grants chair, has joined TPF board as secretary. He has served as grants chair since 2014 and has done a great job overseeing grants and providing funding for perl projects. In addition to supporting Makoto's TPF work, Two Sigma Investments, LP, Makoto's employer, has also provided donations to TPF for which we are very grateful. A focus for us this ... read more |
This is a monthly report by Tony Cook on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. Approximately 38 tickets were reviewed, and 8 patches were applied 13.82 #122490 more merge conflicts #122490 more merge conflicts, track down warning sources #122490 track down warning sources, start merging test changes #122490 more test merging, testing, ... read more |
Thanks to The Perl Foundation and our beloved sponsors, a large portion of the critical contributors to the Perl 5 Porters the core group of Perl 5 developers, were able to get together on November 11th, 2016 at the Booking.com headquarters in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, for our very first Perl 5 Core hackathon, nicknamed Perl 5 Hack. This is our report. It was a four-day event, composed of discussions on ... read more |
Dave Mitchell writes: There are two main things I did in December First I sorted out infrastructure for ops which are called in boolean context. Currently PADHV and RV2HV ops are flagged specially if they are not only used in scalar context, but where the result they return will only ever be used as a boolean value; for example 'if This was originally done since a hash in scalar context ... read more |
The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the January round. Proposal in this round Proposer Requested Amount Link to the Details Standardization, Test Coverage, and Documentation of Perl 6 I/O Routines USD 999 Proposal Voting Results Title Yes No Score Standardization, Test Coverage, and Documentation of Perl 6 I/O Routines 7 0 35 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 0 0 Definition of the score is found in ... read more |
Dave Mitchell recently requested an extension of his Maintaining Perl 5 grant. I'm pleased to announce that the Board of Directors approved extension of another $20,000. I would like to thank the community members who took time to comment on this grant extension request and our sponsors who made funding the grant possible through our Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. ... read more |
The Perl Foundation's Grants Committee is looking for a new member. The new member will work at the committee in this large, high-profile nonprofit organization with other 13 members who include 4 White Camel Award recipients. The committee has presence in all the global regions and major Perl development threads. It's a volunteer position with no compensation. We would like to elect either one of 1> the Committee Secretary 2> ... read more |
Tony Cook writes: Approximately 21 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 2 patches were applied. 4.33 #127149 re-work patch to fix a related issue, debugging #127149 debugging, comment on Encode #59 14.98 #127663 testing, minor polish, re-check, comment with patch #127663 reply to comment, work on additional patch for env control of the internal seed #127663 more internal seed env, comment with ... read more |
Will Braswell has submitted his final report on his grant RPerl User Documentation, Part 2 The Grants Committee welcomes comments from the community before it votes on completion of the grant. MAJ RPerl User Documentation, Part 2, Final Report Deliverables Inch-stones Completeness Criteria RPerl User Documentation, Part 2, Final Report Name: Will Braswell Amount Requested: USD 1,600 Deliverables Deliverables for this grant proposal are: 1. Complete ... read more |
Will Braswell reports that he has completed the deliverables for RPerl Docs #2: "Lots of big news for RPerl! First, Christmas saw the release of the new Perl-powered platform CloudForFree.org ;v1.0, codename Nimbostratus. Secondly, on New Years Day we released RPerl v2.4 codename Aurora. And last but not least, we are proud to announce the publication of Learning RPerl chapter 4, thereby completing part 2 of the TPF grant! Over ... read more |
The Grants Committee has received one grant proposal Standardization, Test Coverage, and Documentation of Perl 6 I/O Routines for the January round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on the proposal. Review the proposal below and please comment here by January 23rd, 2017. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced approximately in ... read more |
Dave Mitchell writes: I spent December: 1> looking for quick some wins on speeding up perl compile-time, using 'perl -MCPAN -e1' as a typical example of loading and compiling several .pm files. I tweaked Perl_yyparse and shaved ~2% off the compile time; then tweaked Perl_sv_gets and shaved another ~2% off, and also got a pleasing run-time boost for line reading, with reading a big list of words now ~8% faster ... read more |
Dave Mitchell has requested an extension of $20,000 for his Maintaining the Perl 5 Core grant. This will allow him to dedicate another 400 hours to this work. During this grant he sent regular reports to the p5p mailing list as well as providing monthly summary reports that have been published on this site, the most recent of which are linked below: Month 35 Month 36 Oct/Nov Before we make ... read more |
Dave Mitchell writes: I spent last the last two months: reworking list assignment to be much faster in many cases. For example, this code is 33% faster in 5.25.7 compared with 5.24.0: my @a; for my $i @a @a trying to reduce the overhead of compile time a bit; freeing up some uses of SV flags; fixing various assorted bugs as listed below; ... read more |
Grant Proposal: Learning Perl 6, a book from O'Reilly Media At the invitation of the TPF board, brian has withdrawn the grant proposal for the Learning Perl 6 book, and will submit a proposal to TPF on other ways for TPF to participate in enhancing the visibility of Perl 6. The Grants Committee had a general discussion on funding activities whose output is not free of charge. TPF has documentation ... read more |
The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period has come. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, consider sending a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 January 15th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback and conclude acceptance by January 25th. To ... read more |
General White Camels Awards winners have been annouonced. TPF will take part in Outreachy. Conferences Perl Conference NA 2017 will be held June 18th through June 23rd in Alexandria, Virginia. Grants Updates Maintaining Perl 5: November August Maintaining Perl 5 Core: October September JavaScript Backend For Rakudo: October RPerl User Documentation: December October blogs.perl.org Rewrite: November Test2 Manual: November October Start Act Voyager: ... read more |
brian d foy has announced the White Camel Awards for 2016 and we'd like to congratulate the winners. I'd like to add a special congratulations to Karen Pauley for all her work with Perl, both officially as TPF president and unofficially as a community member. Thanks to all of the winners for your constant efforts toward keeping the Perl community a vibrant and fun place to be. ... read more |
The Perl Foundation received the following report from Tony Cook. Approximately 31 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 8 patches were applied. 0.37 #116945 review and comment #116945 try to review branch, comment 2.05 #122112 research, review code 3.66 #123638 work on patch, testing #123638 perldiag wording, work on regression test #123638 final tests, comment with patch 3.58 #126706 testing, research ... read more |
Here is Will's report for November: Chapter 3 is now complete! The following new sections of Learning RPerl have been published: Section 3.10: Range Operator Section 3.11: Converting From Array To String Section 3.12: Program Control Using The for foreach Loops Section 3.12.1: The Range for Loop Section 3.12.2: The C-Style for Loop Section 3.12.3: The foreach Loop Section 3.13: Punctuation Variables Magic Section 3.14: reverse Operator ... read more |
The Perl Foundation received the following report from Tony Cook in November. Note: This post was delayed due to the role changes within TPF. Apologies. Approximately 29 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 8 patches were applied. 1.52 #128996 testing vs 129879, seems to be the same, make public, apply patch 4.11 #128997 reproduce again, debugging #128997 move to public, comment, debug other issue, work ... read more |
The Grants Committee has received one grant proposal for the November/December round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on the proposal. Review the proposal below and please comment here by December 12th, 2016. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced approximately in one week. Learning Perl 6, a book from O'Reilly Media ... read more |
A huge number of Perl users can trace their initial coding efforts back to O'Reilly's Learning Perl, now available in its 7th edition. The easy introduction and smooth tour of basic features through more powerful ones made it easy to get started, all with a focus on getting things done. brian d foy, well known in the Perl community and one of the authors of Learning Perl, has launched a ... read more |
As Mark Keating reported earlier this month, Karen Pauley has stepped down as TPF president after a very successful tenure. Karen served for an amazing 6+ years and did a fantastic job. I'd like to join Mark and many other people in the Perl Community in thanking Karen for all of her work. She has truly set a high bar for the president role. As some might recall, Karen took ... read more |
Since their third report on migrating blogs.perl.org, Evozon have been working hard to produce a public beta site. This beta site lets you, the community, test and evaluate the platform. If you are a regular user of blogs.perl.org, here's a great opportunity to help us make the release candidate the best version possible. As outlined in the original grant proposal, the site provides the following: features from the exisiting ... read more |
Throughout our search we considered and visited venues in Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada, Florida, Washington D.C., and Virginia. Many people spent countless hours putting out feelers and soliciting bids. In particular, we would like to give a huge thanks to the Brew City Perl Mongers and the Detroit Perl Mongers: their efforts were invaluable in this process, and we hope that we can soon bring The Perl Conference to their fantastic ... read more |
Chad continues working on the Test 2 Manual, with the following news: Introduction to testing with Test2 tutorial: https://github.com/Test-More/Test2-Manual/blob/master/lib/Test2/Manual/Testing/Introduction.pm Tutorial for converting from Test::More to Test2: https://github.com/Test-More/Test2-Manual/blob/master/lib/Test2/Manual/Testing/Migrating.pm ... read more |
The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period has come. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, consider sending a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 November 25th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback and conclude acceptance by December 5th. To ... read more |
Tony Cook recently requested an extension of his Maintaining Perl 5 grant. This request was successful and Tony was awarded another $20,000. I would like to thank the community members who took time to comment on this grant extension request and our sponsors who made funding the grant possible through our Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. ... read more |
Paweł Murias continues to work on his "JavaScript backend for Rakudo":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2016/02/ian-hague-perl-6-grant-applica.html grant. Paweł Murias writes: Current State rakudo.js compiles 70% of the core setting. I'm working on getting it to compile the whole setting. The setting executes a bunch of code at compile time so the code the compiler is generated is validated to some degree I'm mostly fixing bugs, and implementing missing features in the backend While doing that ... read more |
Will reports on RPerl documentation for September and most of October: "Chapter 3 is coming along nicely! The following new sections of Learning RPerl have been published: Section 3.5: 2-D Array Data Types Nested Arrays Section 3.6: qw Operator Section 3.7: Array Assignment Section 3.8: push pop Operators Section 3.9: shift unshift Operators Also, more extensive example code has been added to the following sections: ... read more |
Dave Mitchell writes: I spent last month: eliminating the OP_PUSHRE op, converting OP_SPLIT from being a LISTOP to a PMOP, and making split faster see v5.25.5-71-gdbdb57e; working on various fuzzer tickets; trying to work out when one should use pad_free pad_swipe S_op_clear_gv or just plain SvREFCNT_dec I gave up on this for now; picking some quick and low-hanging fruit off my TODO list; Summary bq. 3:52 sassign is wrongly declared ... read more |
Tony Cook writes: Approximately 42 tickets were reviewed, and 6 patches were applied. Hours Activity 0.93 %zu on HP-UX issue 3.22 #123981 updates, testing, comment 5.19 #126482 debugging #126482 bisect, review changes #126482 more debugging, comment 12.51 #127663 more tests, code review #127663 re-work, testing #127663 delete on abort, testing #127663 remove some later work, testing #127663 polish, testing #127663 review, push to smoke-me #127663 code review, testing, setup for ... read more |
In the last two months, Chad Granum has been working on his grant. The latest news are described below: started to write about bundles, and realized there was a major shortcoming, so he has been improving Importer.pm to make writing bundles easier. wrote additional documentation for writing comparison objects for Test2::Compare, that will also present in the manual. Test2::Manual::EndToEnd was finished, in the ... read more |
Dave Mitchell writes: I spent last month mainly working on "fuzzer" bug reports. Nothing really stands out as deserving special mention. Summary bq. 1:23 "Confused by eval behavior" thread 0:14 "perl #128940":https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=128940 "Use of uninitialized value $fh" mentions wrong variable 2:48 "perl #128951":https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=128951 heap-buffer-overflow in Perl_sv_vcatpvfn_flags 0:51 "perl #128952":https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=128952 stack-buffer-overflow in S_missingterm 1:41 "perl #128989":https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=128989 Bleadperl v5.25.3-266-g1d7e644 breaks VPIT/Variable-Magic-0.59.tar.gz 4:46 perl #129012 heap-buffer-overflow Perl_fbm_instr 2:04 "perl #129029":https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=129029 SIGBUS Perl_sv_peek 0:24 ... read more |
I am pleased to announce that "The Perl Foundation":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ will be taking part in "Outreachy":https://www.gnome.org/outreachy/ again this year. We are offering one full-time internship in the winter program, which will run from December 6th to April 6th. The application process is "now open":https://outreachy.gnome.org/?q=program_home&prg=7 and applications need to be submitted by October 17th. Our mentor, Dylan Hardison, from the Bugzilla project has provided a list of ideas and possible projects "on ... read more |
Jonathan Worthington's recent "grant extension application":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2016/09/perl-6-performance-and-reliabi-2.html, through the "Perl 6 Core Development Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_6_core_development_fund, has been successful. This extension will allow Jonathan to dedicate another 200 hours to the grant. I would like to thank the community members who took time to comment on this grant extension request and our sponsors who made funding the grant possible. ... read more |
Will reports progress on Ch. 3 of Learning RPerl during August: "This month we have published content for the chapter 3 opening and its first 4 sub-sections. Start learning how to use arrays in RPerl! CHAPTER 3: ARRAY VALUES VARIABLES Section 3.1: Lists vs Arrays Section 3.2: Array Data Types Section 3.3: How To Access Array Elements Section 3.4: Array Length Negative Indices MAJ ... read more |
Tony Cook has requested an extension of $20,000 for his "Maintaining Perl 5 Grant":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2013/05/grant-application-maintaining.html. This grant has been running successfully since July 2013. If this extension is granted it would allow Tony to devote another 400 hours to the project. The funds for this extension would come from the "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund. As well as posting reports on the p5p mailing list Tony provides detailed monthly reports, the ... read more |
The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period has come. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, consider sending a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 September 30th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback and conclude acceptance by October 10th. To ... read more |
Jonathan has "successfully completed":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2016/08/perl-6-performance-and-reliabi-1.html his "Perl 6 Performance and Reliability Engineering":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2016/02/grant-proposal-perl-6-performa.html grant. He has requested an extension of $10,000 so that he can spend another 200 hours on this grant. This funding will come from the "Perl 6 Core Development Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_6_core_development_fund. Before we make a decision on this extension we would like to have a period of community consultation that will last for seven days. Please leave feedback in the ... read more |
Jonathan Worthington writes: I have completed the initial 200 hours awarded under my "Perl 6 performance and reliability engineering grant":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2016/02/grant-proposal-perl-6-performa.html. This report summarizes what has been achieved in this time. I have also written a number of more detailed "blog posts":https://6guts.wordpress.com/ about my work. Tooling I implemented heap snapshots in MoarVM. This is a mechanism for taking recordings of what is in the heap after each garbage collection run. It ... read more |
Tony Cook writes: Approximately 27 tickets were reviewed, and 5 patches were applied Hours Activity 5.02 #126203 review code for leak issue, apply original patch, find related issues, research #126203 more related issues #126203 email to jhi 0.95 #127663 re-familiarize, consider options 21.05 #127834 comments, fix some issues #127834 customized updates, testing, comment with new patchsets #127834 update patch sets, proposed perldelta #127834 review updates, research, comment #127834 fix some ... read more |
Dave Mitchell writes: I spent last month mainly working on "fuzzer" bug reports, and trying to process some of the backlog in my p5p mailbox. Summary bq. 1:45 "Confused by eval behavior" thread 1:21 @INC issues 1:26 Deprecate /$empty_string/ 2:03 Assert fail in S_find_uninit_var 1:19 Assert fail in S_sublex_done 0:26 Segfault in Perl_gv_setref 0:14 Segfault due to stack overflow 3:16 fix build warnings and smoke failures 8:46 process p5p mailbox ... read more |
I am pleased to report that Dave Mitchell's recent request to extend his "Maintaining the Perl 5 Core":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2013/09/grant-application-maintaining-1.html grant has been successful. The award of $20,000 will allow him to spend another 400 hours on this project. Thanks to everyone who provided feedback on this application and to all those who continue to provide financial support to the "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund. If you are interested in funding this ... read more |
Will reports on the completion of Chapter 2 of Learning RPerl: "Initial work on chapter 2 of Learning RPerl is finally finished! Hopefully chapters 3 and 4 will not take quite so long to complete. All of the following sections have now been published: Section 2.4: Scalar Variables Section 2.4.1: Choosing Good Variable Names Section 2.4.2: Boolean Data Type Section 2.4.3: Unsigned Integer Data Type ... read more |
Chad has been working slowly on his grant given some personal issues. Nevertheless, there is some progress on Test2-Manual, namely some formatting issues. You can peek Chad work on his GitHub repository, https://github.com/Test-More/Test2-Manual. Be sure to look both to the master and gh-pages branches, as neither gives a complete view of Chad plans in isolation. ... read more |
Tony Cook writes: Approximately 23 tickets were reviewed, and 5 patches were applied Hours Activity 0.86 #127333 review, try to apply #127333 testing and apply to blead 5.55 #127380 comment #127380 testing aginst blead, pod fixes #127380 finalize pod fixes, testing and testing of backports, push to blead, maint-5.24 and maint-5.22, perldelta #127380 comment 9.68 #127663 testing, also #126710 #127663 debugging, GNUmakefile build issues #127663 debugging, re-work #127663 testing, fixes ... read more |
Dave Mitchell writes: I didn't really do much that stands this month; I just reduced the backlog in my p5p mailbox a bit, and worked on several miscellaneous tickets. The most noteworthy bugfix related to getting overwritten while exiting an eval scope. Earlier work by Zefram had ensured that is assigned to in a late stage of scope unwinding, but it turns out that in void context or after a ... read more |
Will Braswell provides this update: "RPerl v2.0 has been officially released, including the long-awaited automatic parallelization feature, which pushes us beyond the everyday speed of serial C++ to the bleeding-edge speed of parallel C++. Accordingly, the following Learning RPerl sections have been added or updated: Section 1.25.2: History Of RPerl Section 1.26: What's New In RPerl v2.0? APPENDIX A: EXERCISE ANSWERS B.8: Modes, Integer Type B.9: Modes, Number Type B.16: ... read more |
Tony Cook writes: Approximately 33 tickets were reviewed, and 4 patches were applied Hours Activity 1.35 #126228 research, adapt to a new patch, testing and comment 1.47 #126686 review, testing and comment 0.98 #127234 testing and apply to blead 1.80 #127380 adjust one proposed patch, testing, comment #127380 comment, trying to push things along 37.34 #127663 work on path handling, temp file creation, handling #127663 re-work path storage #127663 new ... read more |
The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period has come. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, consider sending a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 July 15th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback and conclude acceptance by July 28th. The ... read more |
Dave Mitchell has requested an extension of $20,000 for his Maintaining the Perl 5 Core grant. This will allow him to dedicate another 400 hours to this work. During this grant he sent weekly reports to the p5p mailing list as well as providing monthly summary reports that have been published on this blog, the most recent of which are linked below: "Report for Month 30":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2016/04/maintaining-the-perl-5-core-re-26.html "Report for Month 31":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2016/05/maintaining-the-perl-5-core-re-27.html ... read more |
Chad Granum just completed his first Test2 grant, and took some time for rest and payment bureaucracy before starting his second grant, now documenting Test 2. This is the first report for this new grant. During the last weeks he worked in an initial Test2 tutorial, that was incorporated into his YAPC presentation available at https://test-more.github.io/Test2-Manual/#tutorial. Accordingly with his report, this is just the beginning on how to write tests. ... read more |
Tony has supplied the second report for his "Maintaining Perl 5":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2013/05/grant-application-maintaining.html grant, which was recently successfully "extended":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2016/02/maintaining-perl-5---grant-ext-1.html. Tony Cook writes: Approximately 40 tickets were reviewed, and 3 patches were applied. Hours Activity 1.66 #121734 report cygwin issue upstream #121734 test upstream fix and comment #121734 comment on POSIX::strxfrm bug note 0.27 #122551 review discussion, TR::Perl bugs 2.23 #126188 debugging, try potential fixes, comment 0.92 #126203 reproduce, comment and supply ... read more |
Dave Mitchell writes: I spent last month mainly getting Scope::Upper working on 5.24.0. It broke heavily after the context stack reworking that came with 5.23.8, due to its heavy reliance on the internal details of perl's context stack and scope exit behaviours. I don't intend in general spending so much time again on fixing up such CPAN modules; it's just that once I had started, I wanted to see it ... read more |
In this issue Register today! Passes still available Q A with Larry Wall Sunday Arrival Dinner Tuesday night Social: Desserts and Drinks Tutorials Wednesday Night Pull Request Challenge Call for Speakers: Lightning Talks Call for Volunteers 2017 Venue Proposals Open! Registration The Early Registration deadline has passed, but it’s not too late! Conference passes are still available! The conference pass is now $350 for general admission. Certain discounts can still ... read more |
Will Braswell continues his unrestricted production of R -Perl documentation: "May was yet another busy month for Learning RPerl, section 2.3.6 was huge so I split out all the command-line arguments into a new appendix B. We now have documentation for all of RPerl's 15 phases of operation, 27 command-line arguments, and approximately 200 RPerl-specific error messages, with even more coming soon! All of the following sections have now been ... read more |
In this issue Registration deadlines approaching Keynote address: The Dark Art of Boatbuilding and Project Management A salty look at projects, people and customers Sponsor Spotlight: cPanel Registration deadlines approaching Book your room now! Conference rates are only available until June 1st! After June 1st rates return to the standard hotel rate with no guarantee of availability. Rooms are limited! Reserve yours today! And if you have trouble reserving this ... read more |
Tony Cook writes: Approximately 48 tickets were reviewed, and 7 patches were applied |Hours Activity 1.57 investigate new ipsysv.t failures on darwin, create cpan #112827, fix in blead, #p5p unicode string behaviour discussion 4.60 #122287 testing #122287 work on a patch to Configure/Makefile.SH #122287 more work, testing cross platform, comment with patch #122287 double check patch, expand comment on patch 1.47 #124430 try to find why App::assh started working #124430 ... read more |
Dave Mitchell writes: I spent last month mainly working on various assorted RT tickets. Summary bq. 10:54 charset.t and subst.t fail on Solaris under -Duse64bitall 0:40 Bleadperl breaks TOKUHIROM/Module-Build-Pluggable-0.10.tar.gz on Windows 18:02 @INC issues 14:57 Blead breaks Scope::Upper 0:51 $=x~0 segfaults Perl 5.24.0-RC1-2-gde1d2c7 1:00 Slowdown in split list assign 9:50 process p5p mailbox 1:00 review Provide -Dfortify_inc 0:29 review and apply Get -DPERL_MEM_LOG working again 1:00 sort out a unconfig.h ... read more |
Although we have no new progress reports for the blogs.perl.org migration since the third one, a development version of the site is available for testing at http://blogsperlorg.pearlbee.org/. If you use the existing site, please check that the new beta site works for you. Please leave a comment below if you have helpful suggestions for how to improve the new site. Make sure your suggestions fall within the ... read more |
In this issue: Keynote Speaker: Larry Wall Girl Develop It! discounts available New to Perl Scholarships announced Schedule Released Sponsor Spotlight: craigslist Keynote Speaker: Larry Wall Larry Wall developed the Perl interpreter and language while working for System Development Corporation, which later became part of Unisys, finally releasing it in December of 1987. He is the co-author of Programming Perl ... read more |
This is a completion report for the Test-Simple Test-Stream grant, by Chad Granum. The Grants Committee will vote on its completion and payment. If you have feedback or question on its completion, please comment here. Test-Simple Test-Stream grant complete This is a completion report for the Test-Simple Test-Stream grant. Note on name change and split During the course of the grant the Test-Stream project was renamed to Test2. Several modules ... read more |
Will has got a lot done on RPerl in April. Here's his report: "All of section 2.1 and section 2.2 are now completed. RPerl v1.7 codename Tycho was released on April 1st now containing initial capabilities of generating stand-alone binary executable. All of the following sections of Learning RPerl have been published: Section 2.1.9: Truth Values Section 2.1.10: Floating-Point Error Section 2.1.11: Arithmetic Operators Section 2.1.12: Trigonometry Operators Section 2.1.13: ... read more |
The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period has come. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, consider sending a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 May 15th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback and conclude acceptance by May 28th. The ... read more |
The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the March/April round. Proposal in this round Proposer Requested Amount Link to the Details Chad 'Exodist' Granum USD 2,000 Test2 Manual Voting Results Title Yes No Score Test2 Manual 8 0 36 5 5 5 5 5 5 3 3 Definition of the score is found in 3.2 of the rules. Details We approve Test2 Documentation grant. One of the committee members ... read more |
Dave Mitchell writes: I spent last month mainly: continuing to look into some of the CPAN breakage associated with my recent context work that's been merged into blead; continuing to look at smoke and 5.24 blocker issues Summary bq. 0:25 Perl_sv_clear: Assertion 1:11 Flawed environmental variable handling 5:24 regex qr/ fails to compile on x64 debugging optimized builds 15:53 dtrace/-DDEBUGGING builds now fail on Solaris 1:27 Bleadperl v5.23.7-133-g7b0c33a breaks WBRASWELL/RPerl-1.600000.tar.gz ... read more |
Tony Cook writes: Approximately 57 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 14 patches were applied. and are related in that both problems are related to the same set of changes. Between perl 5.8 and 5.16 inclusive, perl cached the CV for DESTROY in overload magic for the stash. This was four times faster than the simple method lookup previously done each time an object needed to be destroyed. ... read more |
Will Braswell's first report on the follows. "As planned, I've continued work where we left on in part 1 off the Learning RPerl grant. I've implemented a new mechanism for creating tables in POD, currently supporting 14 output formats, which I believe is significantly more than anyone else has achieved to date. |
The Grants Committee has received one grant proposal for the March round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on the proposal. Review the proposal below and please comment here by April 9th, 2016. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced by April 16th. Test2 Manual Name: Chad 'Exodist' Granum. Amount Requested: ... read more |
Dave Mitchell writes: I spent last month mainly: looking into some of the CPAN breakage associated with my recent context work that's been merged into blead; looking at a build failure with solaris, dtrace, shared library and static inline functions Summary bq. 1:00 Bleadperl breaks Algorithm-Permute 16:01 dtrace/-DDEBUGGING builds now fail on Solaris 6:07 fix build warnings and smoke failures 3:22 fixup CPAN distributions affected by context changes 6:11 fixup ... read more |
The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period has come. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, consider sending a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 March 23rd UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback and conclude acceptance by April 5th. The ... read more |
Since our last report on the grant to revitalise blogs.perl.org, Amalia writes that Evozon have completed work on the following: 1. Homepage, accommodating latest blog posts 2. At this point, header is reflecting whether the user is logged in or not 3. Ability to register to the website 4. Ability to login to the website, go to admin, see posts 5. Ability to switch between ... read more |
Tony Cook has requested an extension of $20,000 for his Maintaining Perl 5 grant. This grant has been running successfully since July 2013. If this extension is grounded it would allow Tony to devote another 400 hours to the project. The funds for this extension would come from the Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. As well as posting reports on the p5p mailing list Tony provides detailed monthly reports, the ... read more |
Jonathan Worthington's "recent grant application":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2016/02/grant-proposal-perl-6-performa.html, through the "Perl 6 Core Development Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_6_core_development_fund, has been successful. This grant will allow Jonathan to dedicate 200 hours to improve both runtime and compiler performance of Rakudo Perl 6. I would like to thank all the community members who took time to comment on this grant request and our sponsors who made funding the grant possible. ... read more |
The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the January/February round. Proposal in this round Proposer Requested Amount Link to the Details Will Braswell USD 1,200 RPerl User Documentation, Part 2 Voting Results Title Yes No Score RPerl Documentation, Part 2 5 4 9 3 2 2 1 1 Definition of the score is found in 3.2 of the rules. Details We approve RPerl User Documentation, Part 2. RPerl Adoption ... read more |
YAPC::NA::2016 is fast approaching! There are many questions being asked, and I would like to take the time to address a few of them here. Where is the website? It did take us a bit longer to get off the ground than expected, but I’m happy to announce that the YAPC::NA::2016 website is up and running! You can find much of the content you’re looking for at http://www.yapcna.org/yn2016/ Where is ... read more |
Tony Cook writes: Approximately 43 tickets were reviewed, and 11 patches were applied Hours Activity 2.38 #123737 testing, apply to blead #123737 testing, produce a patch and comment #123737 re-test, look for similar no_op issues, push to blead 2.15 #123788 re-check patch, testing #123788 more testing, apply to blead 4.37 #124387 work on autoload on top of above #124387 testing, code archaeology, produce patches and comment #124387 review test results, ... read more |
Dave Mitchell writes: I didn't do much this month because I was mostly on vacation. Fixed a couple of bugs. I did merge in my context revamping work, but that's being separately funded by Booking.com. Summary: bq. 2:00 Assert fail/segfault in Perl_sv_pvn_force_flags 2:19 enhance Porting/bench.pl's display formats 3:57 process p5p mailbox 1:00 remove vestigial use of PRIVSHIFT **9:16 Total As of 2015/12/31: since the beginning of the grant: bq. 120.0 ... read more |
Tony Cook writes: Approximately 28 tickets were reviewed, and 5 patches were applied. Hours Activity 0.33 #123981 review and comment 0.38 #123991 re-test and apply to blead |4.24 #124097 research #124097 research, testing #124097 more research and testing, comment with new patch 1.62 #124840 work on reverting 8c34e50dc, deal with conflicts #124840 more conflicts, testing 2.08 #125540 testing, debugging, trying to understand base cause 0.43 #125789/#121048/#125341 test the open tickets ... read more |
Dave Mitchell writes: This report notionally covers 2 months, but almost all of November has no hours because it was during a gap before my grant was extended. I spent most of my time fixing assorted RT tickets and smoke issues. Summary bq. 2:36 Illegal division by zero leads to Assertion 2:33 Unknown regexp modifier/unmatched 1:21 Bleadperl v5.23.1-199-ga5f4850 breaks BRUMLEVE/ddb-1.3.1.tar.gz 1:00 Out-of-bounds Reads 3:10 Perl_rpeep: Assertion `oldoldop->op_next oldop 8:48 fix ... read more |
Jonathan Worthington has submitted the following grant proposal under the Perl 6 Core Development Fund. Before we vote on this proposal we would like to get feedback and endorsements from the Perl community. Please leave feedback in the comments or send email with your comments to karen at perlfoundation.org. Name: Jonathan Worthington Project Title: Perl 6 Performance and Reliability Engineering Synopsis: Improve both runtime and compiler performance of Rakudo Perl ... read more |
I am pleased to announce that Ricardo Signes' recent grant application to cover the cost of his travel to the QA Hackathon has been successful. I would like to thank everyone who provided feedback on this grant. This grant was awarded from our Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. If you would like to contribute to this fund please use our donation system or contact karen perlfoundation.org The QA Hackathon is ... read more |
Are you an experienced Perl instructor who would like to offer a course at YAPC:NA this year in Orlando? We want to offer the Perl community a selection of courses and tutorials before and after the conference. Master Classes can be a half day full day or 2 days in length and will run on Sunday 19th, Thursday 23rd, or Friday 24th of June. To submit your proposal please send ... read more |
The YAPC::NA::2016 call for speakers is now open! The Yet Another Perl Conference is a high-quality, inexpensive technical conference that celebrates the Perl programming language. The conference is accessible to everyone, regardless of experience, yet it remains valuable to the most skilled programmers. Each year the conference attracts hundreds of programmers from around the world, including luminaries such as Larry Wall, Ricardo Signes, and Damian Conway. We hope you will ... read more |
The Grants Committee has received one grant proposal for the January/February round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on the proposal. Review the proposal below and please comment here by February 17th, 2016. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced by February 27th. RPerl User Documentation, Part 2 Name: Will Braswell ... read more |
Jonathan Worthington writes: I applied for a third and final extension of my Perl 6 Release Goals grant, which was published for comments in December and subsequently approved. The final extension granted a further 110 hours of work, which I completed prior to the Christmas release of Perl 6. This report covers the work that was done under this extension, and concludes with some final comments on the grant as ... read more |
We have received the following grant application from Ricardo Signes. Before we vote on this proposal we would like to have a period of community consultation that will last seven days. Please leave feedback in the comments or if you prefer send email with your comments to karen at perlfoundation.org. Name: Ricardo Signes Project Title: Perl QA Hackathon 2016 Amount Requested: $1200 Synopsis: This grant will be used to pay ... read more |
We have received the following Perl 6 Ian Hague Grant Application. Before we vote on this proposal we would like to have a period of community consultation for 10 days. Please leave feedback in the comments or if you prefer send email with your comments to karen at perlfoundation.org. Name: Paweł Murias Project Title: JavaScript backend for Rakudo Synopsis: Improve the JavaScript backend from handling NQP to full Perl 6. ... read more |
In the last month, Chad has been working with Ricardo Signes rjbs doing final tweaking of Test2. For that, some new versions of Test2 and related modules have been published for testing and review purposes. For those who are lazy, some pointers here for Test2 Test2::Suite, Test2::Workflow and dev release of Test::Builder ... read more |
Tony Cook writes: Approximately 54 tickets were reviewed, and 12 patches were applied. illustrates how some of perl's internal tools need to be careful of which parts of the language they use. The tr/// operator can do its job in one of two ways, if all the code points are between 0 and 255 with a 256 entry table of shorts, otherwise using a swash, which is created by ... read more |
Evozon have been busy working on their grant to improve blogs.perl.org Since our first progress report they have worked hard analysing the project's requirements and implementing them in Jeff's public GitHub repository The project runs PearlBee using Docker and Carton. So far, the new system supports the following: RSS export Markdown editing Data migration from the old site ElasticSearch An inproved user interface Home page posts Per-user posts User profile ... read more |
I am pleased to be able to bring you the news we have all been waiting for! We know the wait hasn't been easy, and so the YAPC::NA 2016 organizing committee would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your patience. It's been a long road getting to this point, but thankfully we have finally secured a location that best fits all of our needs. Throughout our search ... read more |
Will Braswell has completed his RPerl Docs grant, submitting the following report: "I have released RPerl v1.51 with all grant work items now completed! 1a. Describe Eyapp EBNF grammar format and Grammar.eyp file sections http://rperl.org/learning_rperl.html#B.1%3A_Eyapp_Grammar_Format_%26_Sections 1b. Describe lexical token types http://rperl.org/learning_rperl.html#B.2%3A_Lexicon_Token_Types 1c. Describe operator precedence and associativity http://rperl.org/learning_rperl.html#B.3%3A_Syntax_Precedence_%26_Associativity 1d. Describe all grammar rules and productions 1e. Provide examples of valid code http://rperl.org/learning_rperl.html#B.4%3A_Syntax_Production_Rules 2a. Complete source code of solutions to chapters ... read more |
This site, The Perl Foundation News, got a technical issue and it had to be changed to read-only mode last week. I'm pleased to announce that this site is back up with the latest version of Movable Type. Apologies for those who tried to leave a comment in the past week and ended up with an error. Grants Committee's January round is rescheduled as follows: Proposal deadline: February 3rd Public ... read more |
Tony Cook writes: Approximately 46 tickets were reviewed, and 13 patches were applied. Hours Activity 1.98 #123658 review, testing, apply to blead 0.42 #123985, #123831 review, research, ask kid51 for a test build 2.93 #123994 review code, testing #123994 more testing, comment with some possible fixes 0.63 #124063 apply to blead with some fiddling 2.29 #124068 review, research #124068 more research, comment 0.85 #124080 review, testing, comment 0.35 #125569 research, ... read more |
Will Braswell provides the following update on his RPerl doc grant. By my assessment of the inchstones, Will is well past the 60% mark and is doggedly making constant headway. "I've released RPerl v1.4 and v1.5 with updated Learning RPerl content: https://metacpan.org/release/RPerl For work item 2b, I am about halfway through writing the explanations of how to arrive at each code solution for the exercises in chapters 1 6: http://rperl.org/learning_rperl.html#APPENDIX_A%3A_EXERCISE_ANSWERS ... read more |
Happy new year! The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period has come. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, consider sending a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 January 16th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback and conclude acceptance by ... read more |
After the first month of work, in his grant, Chad reports the following news: I have been working with Ricardo Signes, and other members of the community to fine-tune the project Out of these discussions have come the following developments: Test-Stream is being split into 2 parts, only 1 part applies to this grant, and it is going to be called 'Test2'. Several parts of Test-Stream have been ... read more |
I am pleased to announce that Sawyer X has joined the Grants Committee. Sawyer X is a frequent speaker at Perl conferences, an event organizer, and a dedicated CPAN contributor. He has been leading the Dancer web framework, organizing the Perl 5 Porters Summary emails, and is the recipient of this year's White Camel Award for outstanding non-technical contributions to the Perl community. I regret to announce that Ben Tilly ... read more |
Jonathan has successfully completed his first grant extension of his "Perl 6 Release Goals":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/04/grant-proposal-perl-6-release.html grant. He has provided the following report and is asking for another extension to continue with this work. Before we make a decision on this extension we would like to have a period of community consultation that will last for seven days. Please leave feedback in the comments or, if you prefer, email your comments to ... read more |
Will Braswell provides the following update on his RPerl doc grant: "For the Learning RPerl exercises, I found a way to work around Perlcritic and get chapter 3 exercise 3 to parse properly, which could be considered extra credit toward work item 2a. I've started formally writing the Learning RPerl textbook, which means we are most of the way done with work item 1b, 1e, 3a, and 3b. On Thanksgiving ... read more |
The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the November round. Proposals in this round Proposer Requested Amount Link to the Details Ngangsi Richard Akumbo USD 6,938 Women in Technology, Cameroon Chad 'Exodist' Granum USD 2,500 Test::Simple Test::Stream stabilization and merge into perl-blead Chad 'Exodist' Granum USD 2,000 Test::Stream Manual Will Braswell USD 1,200 RPerl Alioth Benchmarks, Part 2 This proposal was carried over from the September round. Voting ... read more |
Tony Cook writes: Approximately 42 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 7 patches were applied. Hours Activity 1.20 #120903 review, testing, apply to blead #120903 fix typo, half-write a perldelta entry and decide not to 0.97 #122368 review new patch, comment 0.65 #123831 review discussion, research and comment 2.52 #123867 review newest patches, testing #123867 review test results, apply to blead 2.98 #123981 travis modifications and testing #123981 review ... read more |
Dave Mitchell writes: I spent October mainly working on two things. First, I optimised some common arithmetic operators: so that for the very common case of both args being simple ints in ranges that won't overflow, or both being floats, a simple C-level or whatever can be directly done. For more complex or mixed args, it falls back to the existing slower code. For and I optimised the simple integer ... read more |
The Grants Committee has received four grant proposals for the November round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on them. Review the proposals below and please comment there. The Committee members will start the voting process on November 28th and the conclusion will be announced by November 30th. If your comment does not appear in 24 hours, it is likely that ... read more |
We have received the following grant application "Women in Technology, Cameroon". Please leave feedback in the comments field by November 27th, 2015. If your comment does not appear in 24 hours, contact me at tpf-grants-secretary at perl-foundation.org. A project proposal for the promotion of technology entrepreneurs, providing a technology hub and training the next generation of technology entrepreneurs by empowering women and girls. Name: Ngangsi Richard Akumbo Founder ... read more |
We have received the following grant application "Test::Simple Test::Stream stabilization and merge into perl-blead". Please leave feedback in the comments field by November 27th, 2015. If your comment does not appear in 24 hours, contact me at tpf-grants-secretary at perl-foundation.org. Test::Simple Test::Stream stabilization and merge into perl-blead Name: Chad Granum Amount Requested: USD 2,500 Synopsis Stabilize and release the Test-Stream Test-Simple overhaul. Benefits to the Perl Community Test-Simple ... read more |
We have received the following grant application "Test::Stream Manual". Please leave feedback in the comments field by November 27th, 2015. If your comment does not appear in 24 hours, contact me at tpf-grants-secretary at perl-foundation.org. Test::Stream Manual Name: Chad 'Exodist' Granum. Amount Requested: USD 2,000 Synopsis I am proposing to write a Test::Stream manual. The Test::Stream distribution already has very complete module documentation. The manual will build off ... read more |
We have received the following grant application "RPerl Alioth Benchmarks, Part 2". Please leave feedback in the comments field by November 27th, 2015. If your comment does not appear in 24 hours, contact me at tpf-grants-secretary at perl-foundation.org. RPerl Alioth Benchmarks, Part 2 Name: Will Braswell Amount Requested: USD 1,200 Synopsis RPerl v1.2 has been released with a working N-body benchmark, as promised. Thanks to RPerl, we are ... read more |
Dave Mitchell has requested an extension of $20,000 for his "Maintaining the Perl 5 Core":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2013/09/grant-application-maintaining-1.html grant. This will allow him to dedicate another 400 hours to this work. During this grant he sent weekly reports to the p5p mailing list as well as providing monthly summary reports that have been published on this blog, the most recent of which are linked below: "Report for Month 22":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/09/maintaining-the-perl-5-core-re-19.html "Report for Month 23":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/09/maintaining-the-perl-5-core-re-20.html ... read more |
We know that many of you are concerned about the status of YAPC::NA::2016. Let us assure you, we are working hard towards next year's event. Planning began approximately a month before YAPC::NA::2015 was over, however we've hit a number of roadblocks along the way. We haven't really been able to say much, until now, and that's been frustrating for us as well as for you. Thank you all for your ... read more |
Dave Mitchell writes: I spent September mainly working on two things. First, I made the stack grow macros EXTEND and MEXTEND more robust against count truncating and wrapping, especially on platforms where the sizes of ints and pointers differ. The initial impetus to do this was a bug reported against the repeat operator in list mode on a platform with 32-bit pointers but 64-bit ints; but new compiler warnings generated ... read more |
It has been quiet around the Act Voyager project... but some really important things are slowly coming together! To build a REST API for Act there are some frameworks that would be suitable... and none of them are perfect. And for a long time I had been pondering if I should use Dancer2 or the Web::Machine. Dancer2 is missing a lot of functionality desperately needed to make HTTP actually work. ... read more |
The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period has come. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, consider sending a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 November 16th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback and conclude acceptance by December 1st. The ... read more |
Will Braswell provides the following report on RPerl documentation efforts in October: 'I have been diligently working on work item 2a, "Complete source code of solutions to chapters 1 6". This month, I have pushed over 30 commits to Github related to this grant, starting with dd57fcfc7cde28a4f6e46c1b3cbe0b751922ed9c. At this time, all exercises from Learning Perl chapters 1 through 6 are implemented in RPerl and parsing properly, with the exception of ... read more |
Some time ago, The Perl Foundation awarded a grant to "improve blogs.perl.org":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/07/grant-proposal-revitalize-blog.html. Unfortunately, soon afterwards Jeff, the grant's recipient "ended up in hospital":http://blogs.perl.org/users/drforr/2015/09/post-yapc-update.html at YAPC::Europe. Fortunately, Jeff is recovering and has started work on the project with Amalia. They expect to have a more detailed plan for the project soon. Current work includes comparing the existing site's features to those Pearlbee offers, as well as database migration. ... read more |
The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the September round. Voting Results Proposal details Title Yes No Abstain Score RPerl Doc 8 1 0 28 5 5 4 4 3 3 3 1 RPerl Benchmarks 5 2 2 10 3 3 2 1 1 RPerl Operators 0 4 5 RPerl Medium-Magic 0 4 5 Plerd 0 7 2 Definition of the score is found in 3.2 of the rules. ... read more |
Jonathan Worthington has requested an extension of $10,000 for his "Perl 6 Release Goals":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/04/grant-proposal-perl-6-release.html grant. The funds for this extension would come from the "Perl 6 Core Development Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_6_core_development_fund. The requested extension would allow Jonathan to devote another 250 hours to the project. Jonathan has provided a "detailed report":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/09/perl-6-release-goals-initial-g.html for the work done so far, which also provides details of the work he plans to carry out if the extension ... read more |
Jonathan Worthington writes: In April 2015 I started working on a "grant":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/04/grant-proposal-perl-6-release.html from The Perl Foundation's "Perl 6 Core Development Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_6_core_development_fund. The grant was provided to enable me to dedicate much more time to the Perl 6 project than would otherwise have been possible, and it has indeed enabled this. My work has been, and continues to be, focused on enabling the release of the Perl 6 language along with ... read more |
Tony Cook has requested an extension of $20,000 for his "Maintaining Perl 5":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2013/05/grant-application-maintaining.html grant. This grant has been running successfully since July 2013. The requested extension would allow Tony to devote another 400 hours to the project. The funds for this extension would come from the "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund. As well as posting reports on the p5p mailing list Tony provides detailed monthly reports, the most recent of ... read more |
Tony Cook writes: Approximately 57 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 12 patches were applied. Hours Activity 0.83 #120826 re-work documentation patch #120826 re-test, apply to blead, close 4.99 #120903 first pass over documentation update #120903 more documentation, testing, comment with patch #120903 local edits, comment 0.53 #121200 check it's the same issue, merge tickets, comment 0.08 #123543 review and resolve 0.67 #123658 comment 0.17 #123867 comment 0.42 #123879 ... read more |
The Grants Committee has received four grant proposals for the September round. With the one which was carried over from the July round, we have five proposals to choose from. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on them. Review the proposals below and please comment there. The Committee members will start the voting process on September 28th and the conclusion will ... read more |
We have received the following grant application "RPerl Medium-Magic Grammar". Please leave feedback in the comments field by September 27th, 2015. If your comment does not appear in 24 hours, contact me at tpf-grants-secretary at perl-foundation.org. As we have four proposals on RPerl this time, please use RPerl User Documentation proposal if your comment is about RPerl in general and not specific to this proposal. RPerl Medium-Magic Grammar Name: ... read more |
We have received the following grant application "RPerl Operators". Please leave feedback in the comments field by September 27th, 2015. If your comment does not appear in 24 hours, contact me at tpf-grants-secretary at perl-foundation.org. As we have four proposals on RPerl this time, please use RPerl User Documentation proposal if your comment is about RPerl in general and not specific to this proposal. RPerl Operators Name: Will Braswell ... read more |
We have received the following grant application "RPerl Alioth Benchmarks, Part 2". Please leave feedback in the comments field by September 27th, 2015. If your comment does not appear in 24 hours, contact me at tpf-grants-secretary at perl-foundation.org. As we have four proposals on RPerl this time, please use RPerl User Documentation proposal if your comment is about RPerl in general and not specific to this proposal. RPerl Alioth Benchmarks, ... read more |
We have received the following grant application "RPerl User Documentation". Please leave feedback in the comments field by September 27th, 2015. If your comment does not appear in 24 hours, contact me at tpf-grants-secretary at perl-foundation.org. As we have four proposals on RPerl this time, please use this entry if your comment is about RPerl in general and not specific to each RPerl proposal. RPerl User Documentation Name: Will ... read more |
Raising Hopes, Raising Joy and Raising Money When you travel to Perl conferences, or talk on Perl channels, you will at some point hear about Liz and Wendy. Many of you reading this will already be familiar with the both of them and perhaps, like me, you will already have a deep respect for them as well. Liz and Wendy have been cornerstones of the Netherlands Perl community and the ... read more |
Dave Mitchell writes: I spent August mainly working on two things. First, I continued working on re-jigging how scope entry and exit works I had already heavily reworked how subs are called, making a bare sub call: bc. sub f f use about 1/3 less instructions, branches etc. I've now made the more general loop and pp_enter context stuff use the new regime too ... read more |
I am pleased to announce that the "recent grant application":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/08/perl-6-hague-grant-application-1.html from the Swiss Perl Workshop team has been successful. I would like to thank everyone who took the time to comment on this grant application. If you would like to help fund Perl 6 development please consider "donating":https://secure.donor.com/pf012/give to our new "Perl 6 Core Development Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_6_core_development_fund. ... read more |
The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period has come. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, consider sending a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 September 18th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback and conclude acceptance by October 2nd. The ... read more |
Dave Mitchell writes: I spent July mainly working on two things. First, I continued to work on the whole issue of how subroutines are invoked and returned from, and especially how the various perl stacks are manipulated during this time, i.e. all the PUSHBLOCK/PUSHSUB stuff. I also started extending the work to other context types, such as loops. I have mainly concentrated on removing unnecessary fields from the CXt_SUB context ... read more |
Tony Cook writes: Approximately 61 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 10 patches were applied. Hours Activity 0.82 #116054 review, close 120208, comment 2.98 #118127 review and briefly comment #118127 irc discussion, research, comment 1.03 #119515 review discussion, testing, apply to blead 1.38 #120826 review, review code, write up some documentation #120826 review, research, comment with patch 0.60 #122096 review and comment 0.13 #122629 review new discussion 0.50 #123599 ... read more |
Calling for all talks! The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop has already received some great talks and we're looking for a few more! Having already confirmed that Larry Wall will be attending this year's workshop to discuss the release of Perl 6 the organizers are looking to include two tracks of great talks! Talk submissions will continue to be accepted through Friday, August 28th. Visit pghpw.org/ppw2015 for more details and to submit ... read more |
"Oetiker+Partner":http://www.oetiker.ch have donated 5,000 Swiss Francs to the Perl 6 grant fund. 2015 is turning into a signature year for the development and advancement of Perl 6. Earlier in the year Larry Wall announced that the Perl 6 team were working towards the 'official' Perl 6 Development Release and that they intended to have this ready by Christmas 2015. An important part of this is the grant for Jonathan Worthington ... read more |
We have received the following Hague Grant application from the organisers of the Swiss Perl Workshop. Before we vote on this proposal we would like to have a period of community consultation for 7 days. Please leave feedback in the comments or if you prefer send email with your comments to karen at perlfoundation.org. Name: Matthias Bloch, Roman Baumer, Dirk Deimeke Project Title: Perl 6 Hackathon at the Swiss Perl ... read more |
"Booking.com":http://www.booking.com donates $60,000 dollars to The Perl Foundation for continued support of the Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. It is our pleasure to announce that "Booking.com":http://www.booking.com has donated a further sum of $60,000 to the Perl Foundation to aid with further development of the Perl 5 programming language. This donation shows continued support to the Core Maintenance Fund that Booking.com has been a consistent advocate of for many years. Darren ... read more |
Tony Cook writes: Approximately 65 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 14 patches were applied. Hours Activity 0.45 #122281 review, testing, apply to blead 0.48 #122405 review discussion and comment 1.22 #122872 review discussion, review latest patch and comment 0.27 #123264 retest and apply to blead 1.17 #123398 review discussion and code, testing, push to blead, comment 1.58 #123440 review and update, apply to blead and comment 1.18 #123658 ... read more |
Dave Mitchell writes: I spent June mainly continuing to work on the whole issue of how subroutines are invoked and returned from, and especially how the various perl stacks are manipulated during this time. I also fixed some more Coverity and smoke issues. Summary bq. 55:39 #124156: death during unwinding causes crash 1:11 make /\C/ an error 15:45 process p5p mailbox 10:01 silence compiler warnings **82:36 Total bq. 4.3 weeks ... read more |
The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the July round. Proposal in this round Document and release Plerd, an open-source lightweight blogging engine, Jason McIntosh, USD 2,000 Revitalize blogs.perl.org, Jeffrey Goff and Amalia Pomian, USD 3,000 Voting Results Title Yes No Score Plerd 4 3 5 2 1 1 1 blogs.perl.org 8 0 35 5 5 5 5 5 5 4 1 Definition of the score is found in ... read more |
I'm delighted to announce that Dave Mitchell's recent "grant extension request":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/06/grant-extension-request.html has been successful. This extension will allow Dave to continue with this work for another 400 hours. Thanks to everyone who provided feedback on this application and to all those who continue to provide financial support to the "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund. If you are interested in funding this work please contact karen perlfoundation.org or donate directly through ... read more |
The Grants Committee has received two grant proposals for the July round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on the proposals. Review the proposals below and please comment there. The Committee members will start the voting process on July 27th and the conclusion will be announced by August 2nd. If your comment does not appear in 24 hours, it is likely ... read more |
_ We are again reviewing this proposal. Please leave feedback by September 27, 2015._ We have received the following grant application "Document and release Plerd, an open-source lightweight blogging engine". Please leave feedback in the comments field by July 26th, 2015. If your comment does not appear in 24 hours, contact me at tpf-grants-secretary at perl-foundation.org. Document and release Plerd, an open-source lightweight blogging engine Name: Jason McIntosh Amount ... read more |
We have received the following grant application "Revitalize blogs.perl.org". Please leave feedback in the comments field by July 26th, 2015. If your comment does not appear in 24 hours, contact me at tpf-grants-secretary at perl-foundation.org. Revitalize blogs.perl.org Name: Jeffrey Goff, Amalia Pomian Amount Requested: USD 3000 Synopsis blogs.perl.org is in need of replacement. Evozon would like to offer a customized instance of PearlBee in its place, with source ... read more |
Tony Cook writes: Approximately 37 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 2 patches were applied. bulk88's patch in adds support for building perl in parallel on Win32 using dmake's -P option. I've spent some time trying to improve it, but ended up running into limitations in dmake, in particular it seems to call child makefiles with -S preventing any parallel builds in the child. If a GNU make makefile ... read more |
Dave Mitchell writes: I spent the month doing two main things: fixing 5.22 blockers, and once there were no blockers left, I began work on looking at the whole issue of how subroutines are invoked and returned from, and especially how the various perl stacks are manipulated during this time. It turns out that 6 stacks are involved, and there is lots of duplicated code, difficulties with stacks being doubly ... read more |
The previous round got no proposals and we seriously need one. It doesn't have to be a huge Perl project. Do you have anything in mind you want to spend a few weekends to work to help the Perl community? The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period has come. If you have an idea for doing some ... read more |
I am pleased to announce that The Perl Foundation's Grants Committee has voted to treat Taiki Kawakami's grant to work on Perl::Lint as successfully completed. Since our most recent report Taiki has fixed a small bug. To help fund more work like this, please donate to TPF's grants fund ... read more |
As we close YAPC::NA in Salt Lake City, we want to thank everyone who attended, organized, and sponsored this year's conference. Without our community coming together in support, we wouldn't have such a great event! This year, YAPC sold-out at 340 attendees with a reported attendance of over 350. Specifically, The Perl Foundation would like to thank our local organizing team for all of their hard work. David Oswald and ... read more |
Dave Mitchell has requested an extension of $20,000 for his "Maintaining the Perl 5 Core":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2013/09/grant-application-maintaining-1.html grant. This will allow him to dedicate another 400 hours to this work. During this grant he sent weekly reports to the p5p mailing list as well as providing monthly summary reports that have been published on this blog, the most recent of which are linked below: "Report for Month 19":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/05/maintaining-the-perl-5-core-re-16.html "Report for Month 17 ... read more |
Tony Cook writes: Approximately 40 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 4 patches were applied. This month blead allowed patches only for blockers, so there won't many patches applied to blead. I spent much of my time working on blockers, both trying to solve them in blead, or to report issues to CPAN maintainers whose modules were broken. Hours Activity 0.20 #122136 review cpan tickets and update 2.92 #122159 ... read more |
The Act Voyager project has not come to a halt, although it has been a bit silent. My apologies for those who had been waiting last month for the report. Life has taken some turns, in my favour, and thanks to Rick Deller from Eligo, I got a nice job at Broadbean technologies in London and yes, moved from my lovely little hometown to the Perl capital of the United ... read more |
Re: Call For Grant Proposals We have not got grant proposals. We are extending the deadline until the end of May. If you need ideas, rjbs's article is still relevant apart from the Gist one. If you have any questions, let us know at tpf-grants-secretary at perl-foundation.org. ... read more |
I am pleased to announce that Bart Wiegmans' recent Hague Grant Application, "Advancing the MoarVM JIT":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/04/perl-6-hague-grant-application.html has been successful. I would like to thank everyone who provided feedback on this proposal. ... read more |
Dave Mitchell writes: I spent the month mainly fixing issues that were 5.22 blockers. Summary bq. 2:18 Apparent failure to localize %^H 2:13 Bleadperl v5.21.6-89-gd648ffc breaks autobox 4:33 S_no_op: Assertion `s oldbp' failed 1:25 Perl_pp_substcont: Assertion failed 1:21 Unable to build 64-bit blead using gcc-4.8.2 1:21 Perl_ck_stringify: Assertion ->op_sibling> 10:57 Perl_sv_clear: Assertion 0:37 Perl_sv_2pv_flags: Assertion 2:09 null ptr deref Perl_cv_forget_slab 0:20 fix t/uni.parser.t under EBCDIC 10:02 more op_siblings stuff 7:27 ... read more |
Tony Cook writes: Approximately 25 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 2 patches were applied. This was a short month since my old grant ran out, and a new grant started. was interesting to me because is illustrated how perl tracks which globs a given @ISA is present in and how that was broken in this case. Each @ISA has isa magic. If the @ISA is only present ... read more |
Contribute to Perl and get some The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period has come. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, consider sending a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 May 15th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback and ... read more |
I am happy to announce that Jonathan Worthington's grant proposal, "Perl 6 Release Goals":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/04/grant-proposal-perl-6-release.html, has been accepted. This is the first grant awarded under the new "Perl 6 Core Development Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_6_core_development_fund. Thanks goes to the community members who took time to provide feedback on this proposal. I would also like to thank Patrick Michaud and Liz Mattijsen who have agreed to help with the management of this grant. ... read more |
Earlier this month The Perl Foundation's Board Treasurer Dan Wright announced that ZipRecruiter has joined to support TPF and YAPC::NA as a Silver Sponsor. Not only will their sponsorship assist with YAPC::NA::2015 in Salt Lake City, but they will be supporting the efforts of The Perl Foundation year-round. "ZipRecruiter has used perl from our company's inception, and we've benefitted greatly from the language, CPAN and the perl community," said Will ... read more |
It's a while since our last report on Perl::Lint but Taiki has made considerable progress since then, releasing 3 new versions of this Perl source code analyser. Perl::Lint doesn't yet support everything described in Taiki's original proposal for this TPF grant as it needs a few small improvements to match Perl::Critic. Despite this, Taiki has written a fast alternative to Perl::Critic that's easy to use, well documented and now has ... read more |
Dave Mitchell writes: I spent the month mainly fixing issues reported by the Coverity static code analyser, and fixing assorted bugs that were in the main 5.22 blockers. Some notable highlights: Coverity reported an issue related to MEM_WRAP_CHECK although it turned out to be harmless, looking at it gave me an idea to make the wrap check be constant-folded at compile time more often, and since this macro Copy etc> ... read more |
The Perl Foundation is pleased to announce DreamHost as one of the newest sponsors of YAPC::NA::2015. DreamHost uses Perl in their custom-built control panel, for managing a big part of their server infrastructure, and for distributing calculations between machines. They also use Perl for their hosting platform, as well as a web application platform. "DreamHost is honored to be sponsoring YAPC::NA! DreamHost was built upon a solid foundation of Perl ... read more |
We have received the following Hague Grant application from Bart Wiegmans. Before we vote on this proposal we would like to have a period of community consultation for 10 days. Please leave feedback in the comments or if you prefer send email with your comments to karen at perlfoundation.org. Name: Bart Wiegmans Project Title: Advancing the MoarVM JIT Synopsis: Implement an advanced code generation algorithm for the MoarVM JIT compiler, ... read more |
For the March round, we got no applications. The next round will be in May. Grant updates: Start ACT Voyager by Theo van Hoesel: Enjoy his report and give feedback April 1 Act Perl::Lint Yet Another Static Analyzer for Perl5 by Taiki Kawakami: We got an update and the report will be posted next week. Modern Object Oriented Programming in Perl by Toby Inkster: No update from the grantee. The ... read more |
Jonathan Worthington has submitted a grant proposal under our new "Perl 6 Core Development Fund.":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_6_core_development_fund Before we vote on this proposal we would like to get feedback and endorsements from the Perl community. Please leave feedback in the comments or send email with your comments to karen at perlfoundation.org. Name: Jonathan Worthington Project Title: Work towards the 2015 Perl 6 release goals Synopsis: Fund a leading Rakudo Perl 6 and ... read more |
I am pleased to announce the launch of a new fundraising drive to raise money for Perl 6 development. Its immediate focus is the target of releasing a Perl 6 language specification along with a conforming implementation in 2015; beyond this, funds will be used to support maintenance and improvement of Perl 6 implementation. The initial goal is to raise $25,000 to fund the work of Jonathan Worthington. Jonathan is ... read more |
Since the beginning of the year, some smaller steps had been made and things are looking good! First of all the the database schema had been changed to provide some additional things on request of some organisers. Now I realise that I also need to make new versions of the Act-out-of-the-Box vagrant-image once in a while. The DBIx::Class has been updated accordingly and it all works like a charm Secondly, ... read more |
I had flu with a high fever for a week. Unfortunately this happened in the final week of the March grant acceptance period. Apologies I couldn't respond to inquiries in timely fashion. As we haven't received grant applications in this period, we will extend the deadline to March 22nd. To apply for a grant of up to $10,000, please refer to my previous post to understand how. ... read more |
Tony Cook writes: Approximately 55 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 10 patches were applied. shows perl's dependency on other system tools, in this case there were two issues when using GCC 5.0. First, with GCC 5.0, by default the pre-processor with generate #line entries showing the origin of the definition of a macro that's been replaced, so the pre-processor was producing output from: bc. "EDOM" something like: ... read more |
I am pleased to announced that The Perl Foundation will be taking part in "Outreachy":https://www.gnome.org/outreachy/, the successor of the Outreach Program for Women. The Outreach Program for Women was started by the GNOME Foundation in 2006 to encourage women to participate in the GNOME project. Since inception the project has grown to include many Free and Open Source organisations, including The Perl Foundation, and now the program has been rebranded ... read more |
Tony Cook has requested an extension of $20,000 for his "Maintaining Perl 5":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2013/05/grant-application-maintaining.html grant. This grant has been running successfully since July 2013. The requested extension would allow Tony to devote another 400 hours to the project. The funds for this extension would come from the "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund. As well as posting reports on the p5p mailing list Tony provides detailed monthly reports, the most recent of ... read more |
Tony Cook writes: Approximately 61 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 11 patches were applied. There were no especially interesting tickets this month. Hours Activity 1.60 cpan #101078 create/test bisect script and start bisect cpan #101078 review bisect results, comment 0.27 #120357 research and comment 0.52 #122432 review status #122432 summarize status of cpan dists 2.25 #122443 testing, polish 1.48 #122730 bang head against dzil, try some simple fixes, ... read more |
The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period has come. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, consider sending a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 March 15th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback and conclude the acceptance by March 30th. ... read more |
The Perl Foundation is excited to announce three hackathons that will be running sequentially with YAPC ::NA 2015 in Salt Lake City this June. These events include a Perl 6 hackathon with Perl creator Larry Wall to be held on June 11th. The cost to attend these three hackathons is included in all YAPC ::NA 2015 passes, but we do encourage you to RSVP online so we know how many ... read more |
I am pleased to announce that Ricardo Signes' recent grant application to cover the costs of his travel to the "QA Hackathon":http://act.qa-hackathon.org/qa2015/ has been successful. I would like to thank everyone who provided feedback on this grant. The grant was awarded from our "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund. If you wish to contribute to this fund please go to our donation system or contact karen perlfoundation.org The "QA Hackathon":http://act.qa-hackathon.org/qa2015/ is ... read more |
Dave Mitchell writes: At the start of the month I continued work on making the stderr of builds less noisy, and for blead to build, test, and be stderr-clean under ASan -fsanitize=undefined. At the end of this work I raised around 26 RT and github tickets with fixes for cpan/ distributions; currently around 9 of these have been merged back into blead and a further 4 have been merged upstream ... read more |
Are you an experienced Perl instructor who would like to offer a course at YAPC:NA this year in Salt Lake City? We want to offer the Perl community a selection of courses and tutorials before and after the conference. Master Classes can be a half day full day or 2 days in length and will run on Sunday 7th, Thursday 11th, and Friday 12th of June. To submit your proposal ... read more |
We have received the following Perl 5 grant application from Ricardo Signes. Before we vote on this proposal we would like to have a period of community consultation that will last seven days. Please leave feedback in the comments or if you prefer send email with your comments to karen at perlfoundation.org. Name: Ricardo Signes Project Title: Perl QA Hackathon 2015 Amount Requested: $1200 Synopsis This grant will be used ... read more |
Tony Cook writes: Approximately 36 tickets were reviewed, and 5 patches were applied. I spent some time this month working on getting minitest working on Win32. In 2004 the Win32 makefiles were changed to use harness instead of TEST for minitest, presumably at some time after that Test::Harness was changed to load IO unconditionally, breaking minitest on Win32. So I switched minitest back to using TEST and then worked through ... read more |
Last week Taiki released "version 0.11 of Perl::Lint":https://metacpan.org/release/MOZNION/Perl-Lint-0.11 to CPAN. This new version fixes several bugs reported after "Perl::Lint's release":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2014/11/perllint-released.html in November. Taiki has not achieved everything outlined in his "grant proposal":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2014/03/grant-proposal-perllint---yet.html: implementing some of Perl::Lint's policies has been much harder than expected. However, Perl::Lint provides a useful tool for analysing Perl source code. So, The Perl Foundation's grants committee would like to treat this grant as successfully completed soon. ... read more |
The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the January round. Proposal in this round Ado a rapid active commotion Krasimir Berov, USD 4,500 Voting Results Title Yes No Score Ado 1 4 Definition of the score is found in 3.2 of the rules. Details While it is always difficult to make decision on grant proposals, this was a particularly tough one. We understand this is a serious project with ... read more |
As you prepare for this year's YAPC::NA be sure to take advantage of the early bird rates being offered by Little America Hotel in Salt Lake City! Reserve your room prior to March 1st 2015 and receive a nightly discount. After March 1st, rates will go up $20/room/night. So be sure to book today. The reservation link can be found at "yapcna.org/yn2015/location.html":http://yapcna.org/yn2015/location.html. CALLING ALL SPEAKERS! Don't forget that submissions for ... read more |
Tony Cook writes: Approximately 38 tickets were reviewed, and 10 patches were applied. is interesting in the number of things that were wrong with the first test in t/op/utf8cache.t. This was reported by Daniel Dragan where op/utfcache.t was producing a an error message, but was still passing: bc. 1..15 is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. ok 1 ok ... read more |
Dave Mitchell writes: I spent most of my time last month making the stderr of the perl build and test process less noisy, and for blead to build, test, and be stderr-clean under ASan -fsanitize=undefined. Quite a few of the fixes are on cpan/ code, so I haven't pushed those to blead, but rather to the branches davem/cpan-warn and davem/cpan-undef. and I've opened tickets sent notifications to the relevant CPAN ... read more |
Yes, it's January. But we found that Toby did provide a blog post on 2014-12-31 detailing some work on his book, with some new committed material. Looking forward to continued progress in 2015. MAJ ... read more |
The Grants Committee has received one grant proposal for the January round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on the proposal. Review the proposal below and please comment here by January 25th, 2015. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced by January 31st. **Ado a rapid active commotion Name: Krasimir Berov ... read more |
Here are updates of the running grants. Grant Report: Inline::C December 2014, Final. This grant has completed successfully and the payment is underway. It was a great contribution to the community and I enjoyed reading their continuous updates on their blog. Act Voyager long story Grant Report: Modern OO Programming in Perl Dec 2014 Perl::Lint Yet Another Static Analyzer for Perl5: We got an update and are discussing it with ... read more |
Happy New Year from outer space... since the last report a lot has happened on our journey with Act-Voyager... So, let me try to write down the episode of this saga... In the months leading to the Act-hackathon there where two things being worked on... Firstly, there is now a 'Act-out-of-the-Box' that makes it super easy to start hacking on Act With three simple commands, any developer can be up ... read more |
Happy New Year! The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period has come. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, consider sending a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 January 14th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback and conclude the acceptance ... read more |
Paul Johnson has successfully completed his "Improving Devel::Cover grant":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/04/grant-application-improving-de.html. I would like to thank Paul and his grant managers for all their work. I would also like to thank those who support the "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund without your contributions we would not have been able to fund this project. Paul Johnson writes: In accordance with the terms of my grant from TPF this is the final report for ... read more |
Ingy and David have completed work on Inline::Module, or "How to be an XS author without knowing XS". According to the original proposal, the proposed deliverables were: Allow compilation of inlined C code to happen during a module's build time, and then allow Inline to get out of the way to a greater degree than currently happens. Make |
Upon hearing the community's voice, we have re-worked our YAPC timeline, and found a way to extend the call for papers deadline to March 1st. We want to thank those individuals who have already submitted their talk proposals, they will be considered in the first round of rotating acceptances. And we'd also like to thank those in the Perl community who spoke up. This is your YAPC, and we want ... read more |
As Ingy says, Christmas is the time when we wrap things up. Inline::Module is nearly an officially-released reality. The last few weeks of progress can be found here. Highlights: "Autostubbing" feature generates Inline-calling stub modules in memory automagically Example module Alt::Acme::Math::XS in many flavors Lots of community interaction and support The committee will soon be tasked to vote on completion and payment. MAJ ... read more |
The winter round of the "Outreach Program for Women":https://wiki.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen/2014/DecemberMarch has begun and will run from the 9th December 2014 to the 9th March 2015. There are forty-four participants in this round and three of them will be working on Perl. When "we announced":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2014/09/outreach-program-for-women---w.html that we would be taking part in the program again we had funding for one intern. There is additional funding available for good candidates and thanks to ... read more |
Dave Mitchell writes: I spent nearly all my time last month developing a new tool for benchmarking perl itself, Porting/bench.pl. See "http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/222802":http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/222802 for the announcement. Summary bq. 2:00 /\G^/ seems abnormally slow 0:40 Memory leak in regex appears in 5.20.1> 0:43 Slow global pattern match in taint mode with input from utf8 41:22 create Porting/bench.pl 11:20 process p5p mailbox **56:05 TotaL As of 2014/11/30: since the beginning of the grant: ... read more |
Tony Cook writes: This is the first monthly report for my fourth grant. Approximately 58 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 11 patches were applied. is a bug that expresses itself as writing unexpected text after the text you expect to write, when writing to the Win32 console. This is caused by a bug in the Win32 WriteFile API, which returns the number of character written, rather than ... read more |
The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the November round. Proposal in this round IO::All Redux, Ingy döt Net and David Oswald, USD 4,000 Voting Results Title Yes No Score IO::All Redux 2 5 Definition of the score is found in 3.2 of the rules. Details This grant was not approved. The majority of the committee members preferred to wait until the Inline::C grant completes. There was positive feedback ... read more |
I am pleased to announce that Dave Mitchell's "recent request":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2014/10/grant-extension-request-dave-m.html for an extension of his "Maintaining the Perl 5 Core":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2013/09/grant-application-maintaining-1.html grant has been successful. This extension will allow Dave to continue with this work for another 400 hours. Many thanks to everyone who provided feedback on this application and to all those who continue to provide financial support to the "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund. ... read more |
Efforts have been made to obtain a report on MOOP book progress during November; unfortunately, Toby has not provided one. No recent commits are in evidence. I will back out of this post on receipt of a report or blog entry. MAJ ... read more |
Ingy and David have made great strides this month on Inline::Module. Weekly updates can be found at the Ouistreet Inline blog. Highlights "We now have real, usable, open source software on GitHub, so the roadmap and problems will start being expressed as Issues." Support for ExtUtils::MakeMaker, Dist::Zilla, Zilla::Dist, and Module::Install based distributions for Inline. Well filled out Inline::Module::Tutorial According to David: "In brief, our primary objective now works for four ... read more |
It hasn't always been the case that The Perl Foundation has much of a budget to speak of. There were many early years that we flew by the seat of our pants. "Is it in the budget" was more or less the same as asking "what's left in the bank account?" But, as the foundation has grown up, so have our business and accounting practices. First, it is helpful to ... read more |
Since "our last report":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2014/09/more-perllint-progress-2.html, Taiki has made even more progress on Perl::Lint, a static analyser for Perl 5. Taiki has now "released a usable version of this code to CPAN":https://metacpan.org/release/Perl-Lint that improves on the development version mentioned in our previous report. So, now would be a great time to install Perl::Lint using your favourite CPAN client, run your code through Perl::Lint and let us know what you think. If you ... read more |
Walnut, CA The Perl Foundation, along with the Salt Lake Perl Mongers is pleased to announce that the official venue for YAPC::NA 2015 will be the Little America Hotel, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Little America, a four-diamond hotel located on South Main Street has been working with this year's organizer team to meet all of the needs necessary to host a YAPC. The facility, which boasts 14 meeting rooms ... read more |
The Grants Committee has received one grant proposal for the November round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on the proposal. Review the proposal below and please comment there. The Committee members will start the voting process on November 26th and the conclusion will be announced by November 30th. IO::All Redux, Ingy döt Net and David Oswald, USD 4,000 Note that ... read more |
We have received the following grant application "IO::All Redux". Please leave feedback in the comments field by November 25th, 2014. IO::All Redux Name Ingy döt Net David Oswald Amount Requested USD $4,000 Synopsis Rewrite IO::All to match the needs of 10 years experience. Benefits to the Perl Community IO::All is a Perl module that attempts to make all Input/Output operations in Perl, as simple, normal, and uniform ... read more |
Grant recipients are required to publish a grant report every month. We got the following updates in October: Grant Report: Modern OO Programming in Perl Grant Report: Inline::C October 2014 ACT Voyager logbook 2014-10-01 ACT Voyager logbook 2014-09-01 We appreciate those who made great progress and kept the community updated during the autumn conference season. Just a reminder, CFP for the November round will be closed tomorrow. ... read more |
Dave Mitchell writes: The main things I worked on this month were: set up the beginnings of a basic performance/optimisation testing infrastructure under t/perf/ investigated the performance of perl's string allocation and growing implementation, and came up with some suggested improvements ... read more |
This is a bi-monthly reminder. The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period has come. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, consider sending a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 November 14th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback and conclude ... read more |
Toby Inkster reports in his blog that the book took a back seat to other duties this month. He is continuing to develop the basic ideas, most recently in the form of a talk that he will present at the London Perl Workshop. Toby has shared this |
Dave Mitchell writes: The main things I worked on this month were: finished off making the op_private OP flags and data be auto-generated from a single consistent source. I started to investigate how the allocation and growing of strings interacts with COW and the underlying malloc library implementation reviewing, discussing, fixing up and applying Syber's method call optimisation work bq. 3:52 Bleadperl v5.21.1-120-g34dadc6 breaks SYOHEX/Text-Xslate-3.3.3.tar.gz 1:14 Memory leak oddities with ... read more |
Ingy and David report on their Inline:C grant progress in their "joint blog":http://inline.ouistreet.com/page/inline-grant-weekly-report-1.html. Some exciting highlights: All work being done publicly: David and Ingy code in remote PairUpâ„¢ session All realtime communication in IRC Tmux to be termcasted soon Fork 'em on "GitHub":https://github.com/ingydotnet/inline-module-pm Figured out a decent Inline Module API strategy Authors do 3 simple new things to ship Inline code to CPAN No end-user dependency on Inline for these ... read more |
As time moves on the Voyage gradually moves forward. In the proposal I sent, I already knew that I would not be able to dedicate any time until the last week of September. So, what did happen until now: The Apache mod_perl nightmare ACTually, let me take you back december 2013. After I visited the London Perl Workshop, I went to the French hackathon Patch -p1 in Paris to see ... read more |
Grant Manager's note: please excuse the delay in posting these progress reports. Future progress reports will be more in time. This is the progress report about August 2014. As in the original proposal for the Grant, it was stated I would not start before the second half of september because of a project that is very tight on the deadline. However that does not mean that nothing happens. On the ... read more |
Dave Mitchell has requested an extension of $20,000 for his "Maintaining the Perl 5 Core grant":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2013/09/grant-application-maintaining-1.html. This will allow him to dedicate another 400 hours to this work. During this grant he sent weekly reports to the p5p mailing list as well as providing monthly summary reports that have been published on this blog, the most recent of which are linked below: "Report for Month 11":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2014/10/maintaining-the-perl-5-core-re-9.html "Report for Month 10":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2014/08/maintaining-the-perl-5-core-re-8.html ... read more |
I am pleased to announce that Tony Cook's "Maintaining Perl 5":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2014/03/grant-extension-request-from-t.html grant has been extended by another 400 hours. I would like to thank everyone who responded to the call for comments and who provided feedback on this grant extension. I would also like to thank all those who continue to provide financial support to the "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund. ... read more |
Dave Mitchell writes: The main things I worked on this month were: making the op_private OP flags and data be auto-generated from a single consistent source. Its actually complete now, although wasn't at the end of last month, which is the period this report covers. some more work on my OP_MULTIDEREF optimisation. The basic optimisation works, but it still needs work on being handled by B::* and by the use ... read more |
Grant recipients are required to publish a grant report every month. Here are what we got in September: Modern Object Oriented Programming in Perl Perl::Lint TPF also got a grant report on "Start ACT Voyager" so I expect it to be published shortly. If you have any comments/suggestions for each grant, please get in touch with them. We appreciate their hard work and we look forward to seeing the next ... read more |
It is our pleasure to announce that Booking.com has donated the sum of $60,000 to the Perl Foundation to aid with further development of the Perl 5 programming language. This donation is a further contribution to the Core Maintenance Fund that Booking.com has consistently supported over several years. This donation is a another step in the support that Booking.com gives to TPF and the broader Perl community. Darren Huston, Chief ... read more |
The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the September round. Proposals in this round Nile Visual Web App Framework Separating Code From Design Multi Lingual And Multi Theme, Ahmed Amin Elsheshtawy, USD 10,000 IO::All Redux, Ingy döt Net and David Oswald, USD 3,000 Inline::C Module Support, Ingy döt Net and David Oswald, USD 2,000 Pegex Grammar for YAML, Ingy döt Net and David Oswald, USD 3,500 Swim Pod, Ingy ... read more |
Walnut, CA With the planning stages of YAPC::NA 2015 underway, The Perl Foundation has made an increased commitment to marketing and public relations: by teaming up with Pittsburgh based firm ALTRIS Incorporated. ALTRIS Incorporated, a full-service printing, marketing, and web design firm, specializes in non-profit marketing, fundraising, branding, and event management. "We originally brought in the team at ALTRIS to help with our 2012 and 2013 end-of-the-year reports and sponsorship ... read more |
Toby Inkster reports on his book-writing progress in his latest blog post Highlights: The material is open and mirrored at GitHub and Bitbucket He welcomes your comments and suggestions. Work on the namespace chapter is beginning. I and I'm sure many others are looking forward to having this great resource. MAJ #oop #moop ... read more |
I am delighted to announce that the Perl Foundation will once again be taking part in the "GNOME Outreach Program for Women":http://gnome.org/opw/. The Outreach Program for Women was started by the GNOME Foundation in 2006 to encourage women to participate in the GNOME project. In the first round eight interns took part working from GNOME. This program has been expanded and in the last round, that took place this summer, ... read more |
The Grants Committee has received five grant proposals for the September round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on the proposals. Review the proposals below and please comment there. The Committee members will start the voting process on September 26th and the conclusion will be announced by September 30th. Nile Visual Web App Framework Separating Code From Design Multi Lingual And ... read more |
We have received the following grant application "Swim to Pod". Please leave feedback in the comments field by September 25th, 2014. Swim to Pod Name: Ingy döt Net David Oswald Amount Requested USD $3000 Synopsis Provide Swim tools that allow Perl programmers to produce elaborate Pod documention, painlessly. Provide all the functionality of Pod in a syntax better than Markdown. Provide 5 plugins for extending Swim in ... read more |
We have received the following grant application "Pegex Grammar for YAML". Please leave feedback in the comments field by September 25th, 2014. Pegex Grammar for YAML Name: Ingy döt Net David Oswald Amount Requested USD $3500 Synopsis Make YAML.pm and YAML::Tiny driven by a common formal grammar. Benefits to the Perl Community Perl has four major YAML implementations: YAML YAML::Tiny YAML::XS YAML::Syck They all have major incompatabilities. ... read more |
We have received the following grant application "Inline::C Module Support". Please leave feedback in the comments field by September 25th, 2014. Inline::C Module Support Name Ingy döt Net David Oswald Amount Requested USD $2,000 Synopsis Make Inline::C and Inline::CPP the best choice for writing "XS" modules. Benefits to the Perl Community In 2000, Inline.pm and Inline::C brought XS from "hard things possible" to "hard things simple". People ... read more |
We have received the following grant application "IO::All Redux". Please leave feedback in the comments field by September 25th, 2014. IO::All Redux Name Ingy döt Net David Oswald Amount Requested USD $3,000 Synopsis Rewrite IO::All to match the needs of 10 years experience. Benefits to the Perl Community IO::All is a Perl module that attempts to make all Input/Output operations in Perl, as simple, normal, and uniform ... read more |
We have received the following grant application "Nile Visual Web App Framework Separating Code From Design Multi Lingual And Multi Theme". Please leave feedback in the comments field by September 25th, 2014. Nile Visual Web App Framework Separating Code From Design Multi Lingual And Multi Theme Name: Ahmed Amin Elsheshtawy Amount Requested: USD 10,000 Synopsis The main idea in this framework is to separate all the html design, ... read more |
Pattawan Kaewduangdee writes: First of all, I would like to say thank you to "The Perl Foundation":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ for giving me such a great opportunity to work on "MetaCPAN":https://metacpan.org/ as an intern in the "GNOME Outreach Program for Women":http://gnome.org/opw/. MetaCPAN is a really friendly part of the Perl community where I have learnt a lot from smart and specialized Perl developers. While I was participating in the program I improved the ... read more |
The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop Organizers are happy to announce our 7th annual event this November 7th through 9th in downtown Pittsburgh, PA. Our web site is now live and accepting registrations. We are also accepting talk submissions through September 26th: "http://pghpw.org":http://pghpw.org Thanks to Mark Jason Dominus and Tom Christiansen for volunteering talks for PPW already. And thanks to Infinity Interactive for covering the costs for John Anderson to come ... read more |
It's a while since I "reported":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2014/07/perllint-progress.html on "Taiki Kawakami's grant to work on Perl::Lint":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2014/03/grant-proposal-perllint---yet.html, a static analyser for Perl 5. Taiki continues to work on Perl::Lint actively: you can track his progress in "the project's public Github repository":https://github.com/moznion/Perl-Lint. Recently he has implemented more policy checks and added filters to exclude policies. The impressive "Perl::Lint playground":http://perl-lint.moznion.net/ lets you experiment with the module from within your Web browser and the "preview release ... read more |
Tony Cook has requested an extension of $20,000 for his "Maintaining Perl 5 grant":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2013/05/grant-application-maintaining.html. This grant has been running successfully since July 2013. The requested extension would allow Tony to devote another 400 hours to the project. The funds for this extension would come from the "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund. As well as posting reports on the p5p mailing list Tony provides detailed monthly reports, the most recent of ... read more |
Tony Cook writes: Approximately 22 tickets were reviewed or otherwise worked on, and 3 patches were applied. With this month I've exceeded the hours in my grant. Hours Activity 8.36 #121159 code, tests #121159 debugging, coding #121159 refactor, testing 0.50 #121404 fix, retest, apply to blead and comment 1.12 #122005 review is_common ptr_table_* code, produce a crash, comment 0.10 #122024 review and close 0.57 #122107 re-test, apply to blead, comment ... read more |
This announcement is essentially the same as the one from July. This is a bi-monthly reminder. The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period has come. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, consider sending a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 September 14th UTC. ... read more |
Randy Stauner writes: Thanks to the sponsorship of the Perl Foundation, this summer I had the pleasure of mentoring "Pattawan Kaewduangdee":http://oiami.blogspot.jp/ from Thailand as a "MetaCPAN":https://metacpan.org/ contributor through the "GNOME Foundation's Free and Open Source Program for Women":http://gnome.org/opw/. Pattawan was a great help to MetaCPAN and the Perl community. She's bright and ambitious and accomplished a lot during her internship. Her schedule adapted over the summer and she kept up ... read more |
We are pleased to announce that Mark Jensen has joined the Grants Committee as a Grant Manager. Mark has been a core developer on the BioPerl project since 2009, and is the author of the Neo4j graph database Perl driver, REST::Neo4p. He currently manages the Data Coordinating Center team of The Cancer Genome Atlas. Please join me in extending a warm welcome to Mark. ... read more |
Dave Mitchell writes: I spent July mainly processing my p5p mailbox, and looking at various bugs, especially ones which appear that they may be 5.20.0 regressions. Summary bq. 2:45 "Malformed UTF-8 character 1:41 Bad STORE call for tied hash 0:13 Possible regexp memory explosion in 5.20.0 1:28 OOK hack example in perlguts is outdated with COW 0:25 Pathological performance of a pattern match 0:30 cpan/Time-HiRes/t/itimer.t persistently fails with clang 2:24 ... read more |
The organizers of The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop have announced the tentative dates of November 8 and 9, 2014 for this year's PPW. The event is conditional on having 30 signups by September 1st. They have established a Tilt campaign to determine if there is sufficient community interest to host the event. ... read more |
Tony Cook writes: Approximately 67 tickets were reviewed or otherwise worked on, and 11 patches were applied. I spent some more time on this month, finding a bug in pthreads on NetBSD. Thread specific storage should be initialized to NULL, but under some circumstances this doesn't happen on NetBSD, including NetBSD 6.1.3. This is apparently fixed in NetBSD current. I produced a candidate patch for this ticket, LeonT asked me ... read more |
Tony Cook writes: Approximately 63 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 10 patches were applied. Probably the most interesting task this month was attempting to optimize regen/regcharclass.pl which became noticably slower when extra EBCDIC code pages were added to the build. Two fairly simple optimizations fell out of the profile from Devel::NYTProf. get_a2n and get_I8_2_utf were each called over 150,000 times, and returned their mappings as a list, while ... read more |
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 May and June 2014. Actually, it's really only for May. I did some work on Devel::Cover in June, but I am not charging that to the grant, so the month referred to here is May. This month I released versions 1.14 and 1.15. Perls 5.20.0 ... read more |
We are looking for enthusiastic volunteers who can make contributions to Perl development through the Grants Committee. Currently we have a couple of openings for Grant Managers. Responsibilities Work with grantees and help grants be delivered successfully. Ensure the grant progress is published to the community every month. Become the communication hub between grantees and the Committee. Join the Committee's discussion to improve the grant program. Preferred qualifications Medium or ... read more |
The Salt Lake Perl Mongers User Group has been selected to host the YAPC::NA::2015. The conference will be held June 8-10th, 2015. The Salt Lake Perl Mongers and the local Provo Linux Users Group will combine to host this national event. Salt Lake City is well known as a technology hub for both start-ups and large corporations. Companies such as Adobe, Intel, Bluehost, Overstock.com, Boeing, and ATK call Salt Lake ... read more |
The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the July round. Proposals in this round Start ACT Voyager, Theo van Hoesel, USD 6,000 Book: Practical Approach to Web Programming with Perl 5, Ahmed Bilal, USD 1,000 Voting Results Title Yes No Score Start ACT Voyager 5 2 18 5+4+3+3+3 Book: Practical Approach to... 2 7 Definition of the score is found in 3.2 of the rules. Details Start ACT Voyager ... read more |
During June, Taiki Kawakami continued work on "his grant to write Perl::Lint, a static analyzer for Perl 5":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2014/03/grant-proposal-perllint---yet.html. Taiki has implemented more than half the policies and has almost finished work representing complex structures such as block scope. If you would like to see this work in progress, please take a look at the project's "public GitHub repository":https://github.com/moznion/Perl-Lint or attend "Taki's talk about Perl::Lint at YAPC::Asia":http://yapcasia.org/2014/talk/show/6e5b28f4-0191-11e4-b7e8-e4a96aeab6a4. If you have any ... read more |
Dave Mitchell writes: I spent June mainly processing my p5p mailbox, and looking at various bugs, half of which appeared to be 5.20 regressions. Summary bq. 6:40 COWification seems expensive in PADMY variables 0:28 newSVpvf slow in perl 5.20.0 0:28 Benchmark.pm uses excessive CPU on OpenBSD 0:07 PL_sv_no weirdness 1:16 Bleadperl v5.21.0-274-ga7ab896 breaks SHURIKO/String-Simrank-0.079.tar.gz 1:39 Perl regression bug since 5.13.11 bq. 4.3 weeks 36.6 total hours 8.5 average hours per ... read more |
The Grants Committee has received two grant proposals for the July round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on the proposal. Review the proposals below and please comment there. The Committee members will start the voting process on July 26th and the conclusion will be announced by July 31st. Book: Practical Approach to Web Programming with Perl 5, Ahmed Bilal, USD ... read more |
We have received the following grant application "Start ACT Voyager". Please leave feedback in the comments field by July 25th, 2014. Start ACT Voyager Name: Theo van Hoesel Amount Requested: 1.000 DBIx::Class 2.000 Dancer implementation 1.000 REST api 2.000 Theme Based templates 6.000 TOTAL Synopsis The Perl Community is a social community that gathers at several places around the world during Conferences and WorkShops ... read more |
We have received the following grant application "Book: Practical Approach to Web Programming with Perl 5". Please leave feedback in the comments field by July 25th, 2014. Book: Practical Approach to Web Programming with Perl 5 Name: Ahmad Bilal Amount Requested: USD 1000 Synopsis This book would teach web programming from ground up through a practical and minimalist approach. Benefits to the Perl Community 2 years back, when ... read more |
Dave Mitchell writes: I mainly spent May helping to get blead ready for release; in particular by trying to reduce smoke failures and by looking at 5.20 blocker tickets. Summary bq. 0:24 #95493 for Devel-Size: broken by bleadperl 1:00 #95940 for Cache-Mmap: Test suite segfaults with Perl 5.20.0-RC1 2:04 document/publicize THINKFIRST 1:15 Bleadperl v5.19.3-16-gce0d59f breaks the CPAN 2:10 Bleadperl v5.19.6-171-g437e3a7 breaks ROBIN/Want-0.21.tar.gz 4:08 COW related performance regression in 5.19 1:41 ... read more |
Tony Cook writes: Approximately 80 tickets were reviewed or otherwise worked on, 1 change was applied to blead Hours Activity 3.11 #116925 review new discussion #116925 review discussion and update patch 0.47 #119425 review and comment 3.72 #119593 code review and debugging #119593 more debugging, review, produce patch and comment #119593 add explanation to patch 8.53 #121332 applying 5.21.1 blockers patches #121332 more 5.21.1 blockers #121332 apply more 5.21.1 blocker ... read more |
As communicated at the May round closure the Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period has come. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, consider sending a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 July 15th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback ... read more |
The following grants have been cancelled and no payments will be made to the grantees. YACT Yet Another Conference Tool The grant was started on May 2013 and has been cancelled as the grantee opted to cancel it. Next Release of Pinto With Key Features The grant was started on May 2013 and has been cancelled due to the rules of operation 2.6. Perl 6 Tablets The ... read more |
Taiki Kawakami started work on "his Perl::Lint grant":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2014/03/grant-proposal-perllint---yet.html in May. You can track his work in a "public repository":https://github.com/moznion/Perl-Lint at Github. Encouragingly, Taiki reports that he has already completed a third of his work. ... read more |
Tony Cook writes: Approximately 68 tickets were worked on, and 7 patches were applied. Jarkko starts his long stream of patches for Coverity issues this month, which I spent a lot of time reviewing. Hours Activity 3.87 #116925 reply to comments, work on patch changes #116925 reply to comments #116925 work on patch #116925 editing, comment with updated patch 1.40 #119949 review 5.18.3 blockers, backport fix and apply 0.35 #119973 ... read more |
The Grants Committee is pleased to announce the voting result of the May round. The following grant is approved and funded: Modern Object Oriented Programming in Perl, Toby Inkster, USD 4,000 Voting result: Title Yes No Score Modern Object Oriented Programming in Perl 6 0 25 5+5+5+5+3+2 Definition of score is found in 3.2 of the rules. We would like to express gratitude for those who took time to give ... read more |
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 April 2014. This month I released versions 1.10, 1.11, 1.12 and 1.13. I finished up the work I was doing to the test system. Part of this included improving the tests for merged databases, and imposing more of an ordering on STDOUT and STDERR within ... read more |
Dave Mitchell writes: I mainly spent April helping to get blead ready for release; in particular by trying to reduce smoke failures and by looking at 5.20 blocker tickets, including: Get PERL_GLOBAL_STRUCT and PERL_GLOBAL_STRUCT_PRIVATE builds to smoke successfully under ithreads: there were a number of race conditions. Fix a race condition in File-Glob/t/basic.t that caused occasional smoke failures. Stop t/run/locale.t from producing spurious warnings under some shells. Make ExtUtils::Install handle ... read more |
Tony Cook writes: Approximately 16 tickets were reviewed or otherwise worked on. This is the start of my third grant. I mostly worked on 5.20 blockers for this week. |Hours Activity 0.37 #116296 review 1.52 #116925 research and write documentation, comment twice 0.08 #120670 comment and resolve 0.47 #120939 review latest patch and comment 0.45 #121198 work on patch to make croaks into warnings 0.35 #121335 comment 0.33 review 5.20 ... read more |
The Grants Committee has received one grant proposal for the May round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on the proposal. Review the proposal below and please comment there. The Committee members will start the voting process on May 22nd and the conclusion will be announced by May 31st. Modern Object Oriented Programming in Perl, Toby Inkster, USD 4,000 ... read more |
We have received the following grant application. Please leave feedback in the comments field by May 22nd, 2014. Modern Object Oriented Programming in Perl Name: Toby Inkster Amount Requested: USD 4,000 Synopsis The proposal is to write a book on Modern OO programming techniques using Moose, Moo, and Class::Tiny. This would be written in a similar style to chromatic's Modern Perl book, following the same test-driven approach to ... read more |
I would like to congratulate "Pattawan Kaewduangdee":http://oiami.blogspot.jp/ on her successful application to work with Perl in the current round of the "Outreach Program for Women":https://gnome.org/opw/. Pattawan will begin her internship working on "MetaCPAN":https://metacpan.org/ on May 19th with "Olaf Alders":http://blogs.perl.org/users/olaf_alders/ as her mentor. We wouldn't be able to take part in this program without the support of our sponsors or the support of the mentors. I would like to thank Olaf ... read more |
The Grants Committee calls for grant proposals every two months. It's time for the May round! If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, consider sending a grant application. The application deadline is 23:59 May 10th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback and conclude the acceptance by May 31st. The format will be the same as the March ... read more |
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 March 2014. Those of you who have been paying close attention may have noticed that it has been some months since my last report. Unfortunately I got rather busy and Devel::Cover work was one of the casualties. However, with the approval of my grant managers ... read more |
I am pleased to announce that Tony Cook's grant "Maintaining Perl 5":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2014/03/grant-extension-request-from-t.html grant has been extended by another 400 hours. Thank you to everyone who responded to the call for comments and who provided feedback on this grant extension. I would also like to thank all those who continue to provide financial support to the "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund. ... read more |
Dave Mitchell writes: Apart from a bit of time spent on a few miscellaneous bugs, I mainly continued working on refactoring re_intuit_start During the course of the month I merged two sets of commits back into blead. At this point I have now audited the whole of the body of code for general correctness, and in particular for utf8 bugs and inefficiencies, and for correct treatment of anchors, especially \G. ... read more |
As his "Maintaining the Perl 5 Core":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2013/09/grant-application-maintaining-1.html grant is about to be successfully completed, Dave Mitchell has requested an extension of $20,000. This will allow him to dedicate another 400 hours to this work. During this grant he sent weekly reports to the p5p mailing list as well as providing monthly summary reports that have been published on this blog, the most recent of which are linked below: "Report for ... read more |
It is my pleasure to announce that "Booking.com":http://www.booking.com/ approached Karen Pauley, President of The Perl Foundation, to announce further sponsorship of the "Perl5 Core Maintenance Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund. Booking.com have been generous contributors and supporters of this fund since its inception and this latest generous support is for the incredible amount of €10,000 Booking.com have sponsored Perl events and initiatives for many years and have also been host to Perl events at ... read more |
The Grants Committee is pleased to announce the voting results of the March round. The following grant is approved and funded: Perl::Lint Yet Another Static Analyzer for Perl5, Taiki Kawakami, USD 800 The following grant is approved but not funded as specified in 3.4 of the Rules of Operation. This will be reconsidered in the next round according to 1.2 of the rules. Automated generation of DWIM Perl, Gabor Szabo, ... read more |
Enroll your Amazon account in Amazon Smile, and The Perl Foundation will receive a donation of 0.5% of all qualifying purchases you make at smile.amazon.com. Yet Another Society ... read more |
Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer reported: This past May, The Perl Foundation awarded a grant to fund development of a couple features in Pinto. Pinto is a robust tool for curating a private repository of CPAN modules, so you can build your application with the right modules every time. This is my fifth progress report on that work. Pinto 0.0995 was just shipped to CPAN and it includes a |
Dave Mitchell writes: I spent about half my time last month continuing to work on fixing and refactoring the Perl_re_intuit_start function, which is the main run-time optimisation facility in the regex engine. My work so far was merged back into blead on 8th February; I've since done some more work which hasn't been pushed yet. I also fixed a regression in maint-5.18 regarding whether a variable is seen in a ... read more |
The Grants Committee got four grant proposals for this round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on these proposals. Review the proposals below and please comment on each page. They are listed in the order in which they were received. JERL Perl5 running in the JVM, Michael Shomsky, USD 3,000 RPerl Test Suite Upgrade Module::Compile Integration, William N. Braswell, Jr., USD ... read more |
We have received the following grant application. Please leave feedback in the comments field by March 22nd, 2014. Automated generation of DWIM Perl Name: Gabor Szabo Email: undisclosed Amount Requested: $6,000 Synopsis DWIM Perl is a "batteries included" Perl distribution for Microsoft Windows and for Linux. On Windows it is based on Strawberry Perl, on Linux it is compiled from the source released by the Perl 5 ... read more |
We have received the following grant application. Please leave feedback in the comments field by March 22nd, 2014. Perl::Lint Yet Another Static Analyzer for Perl5 Name: Taiki Kawakami Email: undisclosed Amount Requested: $800 Synopsis This project aims to create a fast and flexible static analyzer for Perl5 that has compatibility with Perl::Critic, with the goal to be light and fast enough to allow near real-time check of ... read more |
We have received the following grant application. Please leave feedback in the comments field by March 22nd, 2014. Project Title RPerl Test Suite Upgrade Module::Compile Integration Name: Name of proposer. William N. Braswell, Jr. Email: Where we can contact you! undisclosed Amount Requested: How much is your project worth? $800 Synopsis A short description. Whether we want to admit it to ourselves or not, ... read more |
We have received the following grant application. Please leave feedback in the comments field by March 22nd, 2014. JERL Perl5 running in the JVM Name Michael Shomsky Email: undisclosed Amount Requested: How much is your project worth? ~3000 Note: The project is in maintenance mode and it's 2nd year. It's gotten this far on 4hrs/month from one developer who would like to see it in a ... read more |
Tony Cook writes: Approximately 57 tickets were worked on, and 12 patches were applied. Probably the most interesting issue this month was diagnosing the HP-UX bus error in during regexp compilation, I won't repeat the diagnosis here, but it can be found at: "http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/02/msg212925.html":http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/02/msg212925.html with some on-point follow-ups from Nicholas Clark, Dave Mitchell and Yves Orton. This month brings the total hours spent on my second grant to 265.07 hours, ... read more |
Tony Cook has requested an extension of $20,000 for his "Maintaining Perl 5":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2013/05/grant-application-maintaining.html grant. This grant has been running successfully since July 2013. The requested extension would allow Tony to devote another 400 hours to the project. The funds for this extension would come from the "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund. Before we make a decision on this extension we would like to have a period of community consultation that ... read more |
The Perl Foundation is now listed as a "cause on Benevity.org":https://causes.benevity.org/causes/840-383536536. This means that employees of Google may now donate to The Perl Foundation through GooglersGive, their workplace giving program. When making contributions through benevity, please search for "Yet Another Society" We appreciate all of the Google employees that nominated us, and we thank everybody for all of your support of The Perl Foundation. Through your support, we are ensuring ... read more |
I am pleased to announce that we will once again be taking part in the "Outreach Program for Women.":https://wiki.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen/2014/MayAugust#Participating_Organizations The application period is now open for women looking for a summer internship working on a Perl related project. The internship will take place from May 19th to August 18th 2014. The internship pays a stipend of $5,500 and the intern is expected to work full-time on the project. The deadline ... read more |
I am pleased to announce that Ricardo Signes' "grant application":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2014/01/perl-5-grant-application-trave-2.html and David Golden's "QA Hackathon Travel Grant":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2014/02/perl-5-grant-application-trave-3.html application have been successful. I would like to thank everyone who provided feedback on these grants. The grants were awarded from our "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund. If you wish to contribute to this fund please go to our "donation system":https://secure.donor.com/pf012/give or contact karen perlfoundation.org The "QA Hackathon":http://act.qa-hackathon.org/qa2014/ is a free of charge ... read more |
As "announced previously":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2014/02/new-rules-of-operation---grant.html, the Grants Committee calls for grant proposals every two months. This is the first round under the new rule. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, consider sending grant application. The application deadline is March 14th. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback and conclude the acceptance by March 31st. There are several reasons for you ... read more |
We are pleased to announce that the Grants Committee has updated the Rules of Operation. This change was made to make the program more useful for the grant applicants. It is a result of discussions stemming from the community feedback since "this post":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2013/08/2013q3-grant-proposals.html in August 2013. These rules will be in effect beginning with the next call for grant applications in March. Change summary **1. More frequent and faster evaluation ... read more |
The Perl Foundation is please to present its 2013 year end report to the community. The theme of this year's report is "ensuring the future of Perl." With the help of our volunteers and sponsors, TPF is making a real impact on Perl's future. Thank you to everybody that helped to make 2013 a successful year for TPF. 2013 Year-end report.pdf ... read more |
Dave Mitchell writes: I spent the majority of my time last month continuing to work on fixing and refactoring the Perl_re_intuit_start function, which is the main run-time optimisation facility in the regex engine. Part of my goal has been to simplify the structure of the code, which uses no large-scale structural features like while-loops, but instead relies on lots of labels and goto's. Ignoring the three "go here on failure" ... read more |
Torsten Raudssus reported: The next phase working on YACT was at the patch -p1 Hackathon in Paris from 6.-8. December 2013. At this time it was very often my mission to explain to others how the YACT project is organized so trying to spread the awareness. But as usual this didn't kicked on, no pull requests or any involvement, but still it was a bit of a prove that the ... read more |
We have received the following Perl 5 grant application from David Golden. Before we vote on this proposal we would like to have a period of community consultation that will last seven days. Please leave feedback in the comments or if you prefer send email with your comments to karen at perlfoundation.org. Name David Golden Project Title Perl QA Hackathon 2014 Amount Requested $1200 Synopsis This grant will be used ... read more |
We are pleased to announce that Daisuke Maki has joined the Grants Committee. Daisuke was involved in the world's largest YAPC, YAPC::Asia Tokyo, since its inception in 2006, and has been the main organizer since 2009. He was also the main person behind creating and incorporating the Japan Perl Association. He received the White Camel Award in 2011. We regret to announce that Renée Bäcker, one of the Grant Managers ... read more |
Mark Keating writes: The Perl Foundation are participating as a mentor organization in GSoC 2014! Student applications may be submitted starting March 10th and are due by March 21st, but students should start getting involved with their communities and the "TPF Summer of Code Students mailing list":https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/tpf-gsoc-students and start thinking about project ideas now. You can see a list of project ideas "here":http://wiki.enlightenedperl.org/gsoc2014/ideas. NOTE: Students are encouraged to come up ... read more |
We are pleased to announce that Makoto Nozaki has been elected as the new Secretary of the Grants Committee. Makoto has a background in project management and has been an integral part of the Grants Committee as a Grant Manager, where all of his managed grants have been completed successfully. The outgoing Secretary, Alberto Simões, has held this position since October 2007. We would like to thank Alberto for his ... read more |
We have received the following Perl 5 grant application from Ricardo Signes. Before we vote on this proposal we would like to have a period of community consultation that will last seven days. Please leave feedback in the comments or if you prefer send email with your comments to karen at perlfoundation.org. Name Ricardo Signes Project Title Perl QA Hackathon 2014 Amount Requested $1200 Synopsis This grant will be used ... read more |
Tony Cook writes: Approximately 30 tickets were worked on, and 10 patches were applied. "perl #120384":https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=120384 This month I re-worked Data::Dumper's pure-perl and XS output of hash keys to be consistent with both each other, and with the Quotekeys configuration. "perl #82948":https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=82948 Also on Data::Dumper, I modified the code that dumps qr// objects to output them as qr/original re/flags rather than the qr/ form that tends to expand each time ... read more |
Dave Mitchell writes: I spent the majority of my time last month working on a function called Perl_re_intuit_start in the regex engine. This function is one of the major optimisations in the regex engine. For each compiled pattern, it is noted what is the longest fixed and floating strings that must appear in the string for the match to succeed, along with what char class the pattern must start with. ... read more |
Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer reported: This past May, The Perl Foundation awarded a grant to fund development of a couple features in Pinto. Pinto is a robust tool for curating a private repository of CPAN modules, so you can build your application with the right modules every time. This is my fourth progress report on that work. I've done quite a lot of work on Pinto the last few weeks. And ... read more |
Dave Mitchell writes: I spent the majority of my time last month fixing compiler warnings in smokes; along with fixing a few bugs, "working" my p5p mailbox etc. Over the last month I have averaged 17.1 hours per week. As of 2013/11/30: since the beginning of the grant: bq. 6.9 weeks 115.6 total hours 16.8 average hours per week There are 284 hours left on the grant. bq. 7:55 RT#119847 ... read more |
I am pleased to announce that Dave Mitchell's grant application, "Maintaining the Perl 5 Core":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2013/09/grant-application-maintaining-1.html, was accepted. This is his first report. Dave Mitchell writes: I spent my time mainly working on several bug reports, applying patches, fixing smokes, and "working" my p5p mailbox etc. None of the fixes are particularly noteworthy. Over the last month I have averaged 16.1 hours per week. As of 2013/10/31: since the beginning of ... read more |
Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer reported: This past May, The Perl Foundation awarded a grant to fund development of a couple features in Pinto. Pinto is a robust tool for curating a private repository of CPAN modules, so you can build your application with the right modules every time. This is my third progress report on that work. I've been preoccupied with Stratopan lately, so I have no progress to report this ... read more |
Torsten Raudssus reported: In July 2013 I started work on my grant, using time off given by my empoyer for such projects. Unfortunately, after my first week of work, the NSA Snowden Affair brought a massive influx of interest towards DuckDuckGo, forcing me to pause my progress. At the Patch -p1 event I plan to continue my work on the grant. In the first week, I concentrated on forming a ... read more |
Tony Cook has requested an extension of $13,000 for his "Maintaining Perl 5 grant":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2013/05/grant-application-maintaining.html. This grant was started in July 2013 and was successfully completed. The requested extension would allow Tony to devote another 260 hours to the project. The funds for this extension would come from the "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund. Tony provided detailed monthly reports of the work he completed and these can be found in the ... read more |
Nicholas Clark writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the August period. Multiple cores are the future! And we need to enjoy this, because we aren't going to get any choice about it. The current hardware for the hot backup for perl5.git.perl.org has 24 cores, and even mobile phones are thinking about going quad-core. The upshot of this is that the more that you can get ... read more |
Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer reported: This past May, The Perl Foundation awarded a grant to fund development of a couple features in Pinto. Pinto is a robust tool for curating a private repository of CPAN modules, so you can build your application with the right modules every time. This is my second progress report on that work. The next deliverable on the grant proposal is a merge command. The idea here ... read more |
Nicholas Clark writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the July period. The main theme for this month seems to be "clean up parts of the build". perl was first developed on a Unix system, back in the times when there dozens of different Unix variants. Hence portability was initially across the different C libraries Figuring out precisely what the system could do was performed by ... read more |
Tony Cook writes: The most interesting changes this month were probably: "115928":https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=115928 a common rand implementation "117265":https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=117265 failing system calls on embedded NULs "3330":https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=3330 warning on ++$foo when $foo isn't a number, or magically incrementable "85104":https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=85104 preserving $^E across signal handlers ... read more |
I'm pleased to announce that diakopter's grant proposal, "Wrap up Perl 5 Interop for Rakudo Perl 6 on MoarVM":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2013/07/hague-grant-application.html, has been accepted. I would like to thank everyone who took the time to comment on the proposal. If you would like to help fund grants like this or any of our other projects please visit our "donation system":https://secure.donor.com/pf012/give. ... read more |
In accordance with the terms of my grant from TPF this is the monthly report for my work on improving Devel::Cover covering August 2013. This month I released Devel::Cover versions 1.07 and 1.08. Version 1.07 was primarily concerned with getting Devel::Cover to work with recent Perl releases: 5.18.1, 5.19.1, 5.19.2 and 5.19.3. The main problem was with 5.18.1 which is a stable, maintenance release of Perl and which was causing ... read more |
In accordance with the terms of my grant from TPF this is the monthly report for my work on improving Devel::Cover covering August 2013. This month I released Devel::Cover versions 1.07 and 1.08. Version 1.07 was primarily concerned with getting Devel::Cover to work with recent Perl releases: 5.18.1, 5.19.1, 5.19.2 and 5.19.3. The main problem was with 5.18.1 which is a stable, maintenance release of Perl and which was causing ... read 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 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 ... read more |
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 ... read more |
Tony Cook writes: The most interesting changes this month were probably: 116190 making -F imply -a and -a imply -n. 116989 S_croak_memory_wrap 117265 safesyscalls 74798 Data::Dumper XS I added tests and fix for that, and applied it as 2780a6ed. Of course this being Data::Dumper, a change in the code broke some tests on CPAN, in one case a tweak to the output format to match the pure perl code exactly ... read more |
We have received a new grant application, under the Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund, from David Mitchell. Before we vote on this proposal we would like to get feedback and endorsements from the Perl community. Please leave feedback in the comments or send email with your comments to karen at perlfoundation.org. Name: David Mitchell Project Title: Maintaining the Perl 5 Core Synopsis Having recently finished a three-year TPF grant devoted ... read more |
The call for talks for The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop has officially opened. Interested parties may submit talks or register for the event at: "http://pghpw.org":http://pghpw.org PPW will be held this October 4th, 5th, and 6th at the Pittsburgh Technical Institute, located near Pittsburgh International Airport. ... read more |
For this quarter the Grants Committee just received one proposal, by Peter Rabbitson, for "Advanced environment for CI of Perl projects". Unfortunately the Grants Committee could not accept this proposal as it requests more than the limit of $3000 stated on the Grants Committee Rules. Nevertheless, this lack of "lower than $3000" grant proposals, and the fact that lot of people have been discussing about this value being too low, ... read more |
Tony Cook writes: The most interesting changes this month were probably: 116190 making -F imply -a and -a imply -n. 116989 S_croak_memory_wrap 117265 safesyscalls 74798 Data::Dumper XS The original request in this ticket was that -F without -a should warn or fail with an error. The problem with that, as discussed, is that there's a perfectly reasonable thing to do instead: have -F switch on ... read more |
I am pleased to announce that Dr Nicholas Clark's "Improving Perl 5":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/08/grant-proposal-improving-perl.html grant has been extended by another 400 hours. I would like to thank everyone who commented on his "request for an extension":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2013/07/grant-extension-request---impr-4.html for their feedback. I would also like to thank all those who continue to provide financial support to the "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund.":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund ... read more |
Nicholas Clark writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the June period. bq. The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from I guess the same can be said about build systems. So the structural intent of the build is Permit the user to choose configuration options Build the package so the configuration system has to run using native tools. And ... read more |
Nicholas Clark writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the May period. This month I simplified part of the implementation of pack and unpack, removing about 130 lines of code, and reducing the object code size by about 2K. The only casualty was support for mixed-endian systems. Sorry, PDP-11 users. In the medal stakes for "risk to sanity", the implementation of pack and unpack are strong ... read more |
We have received the following Hague Grant application from diakopter. Before we vote on this proposal we would like to have a period of community consultation for 10 days. Please leave feedback in the comments or if you prefer send email with your comments to karen at perlfoundation.org. Applicant's Name: diakopter Project Title Wrap up Perl 5 Interop for Rakudo Perl 6 on MoarVM Synopsis Embed Perl 5 in Rakudo's ... read more |
Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer reported: This past May, The Perl Foundation awarded a grant to fund development of a couple features in Pinto. Pinto is a robust tool for curating a private repository of CPAN modules, so you can build your application with the right modules every time. This is my first progress report on that work. The grant proposal covered two key features. I have a tendency to pick the ... read more |
Dr. Nicholas Clark has requested an extension of $20,000 for his "Improving Perl 5":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/08/grant-proposal-improving-perl.html grant. This grant started in September 2011 and has been running successfully since then. The requested extension would allow Nicholas to devote another 400 hours to the project. The funds for this extension would come from the "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund. As well as weekly reports posted on the p5p mailing list Nicholas provides detailed ... read more |
As you might have noticed, TPF has been granting money for some big tasks, like funding Nicholas Clark or Dave Mitchel's work on Perl 5. Nevertheless, TPF has a Grants Committee with its own budget, to give grants for smaller projects, ranging from $500 to $3000. With this amount we do not expect to fund full-time work, but instead, use it as an incentive to complete some specific task. Therefore, ... read more |
I am pleased to announce that The Perl Foundation has accepted Tony Cook's grant application for "Maintaining Perl 5":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2013/05/grant-application-maintaining.html. As always the application was considered after a public consultation and feedback period. I would like to thank everyone who took the time to view, assess, and provide feedback on the application. This grant was awarded from money previously raised for the "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund, an initiative maintained by ... read more |
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 ... read more |
Nicholas Clark writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the April period. I started the month looking at the Unicode Names code. At Karl's suggestion I changed it to parse the UnicodeData.txt file properly. Previously it had hardcoded various constants, particularly related to the CJK ideographs and Hangul syllables. The CJK ranges in Unicode have increased in the past, and so it's possible that they will ... read more |
Dave Mitchell writes: This month was mostly spent on removing global state from the regex engine, making re-entrantcy less error-prone. The extract from the merge commit description below gives you all the details you could ever want. Apart from that I spent a few hours re-enabling Copy-on_Write by default post the 5.18.0 release, plus a few other bits and pieces. It turns out that I have finally used up all ... read more |
It took some time to get the grant results. In fact, grantees are aware of the status of their grants for about a week, but we were dealing with some internal details before posting the results. In this round the Grant Committee did not vote for rejection of any grant. That is good, but the committee does not have funds to accept all grants at once. This lead to a ... read more |
We have received the following grant application, under the "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund, from Tony Cook. Before we vote on this proposal we would like to get feedback and endorsements from the Perl community. Please leave feedback in the comments or send email with your comments to karen at perlfoundation.org. Project Title: Maintaining Perl 5 Name: Tony Cook Synopsis Free up one of the Perl 5 core's contributors to ... read more |
Dave Mitchell writes: This month I worked on three 5.18 blocker tickets; all three being regressions related to my jumbo re_eval fix back in 5.17.1. The first, which I continued working on from last month, was the "Regexp::Grammars" bug. Basically, my reworking of the implementation assumed that a constant string segment like "foo" in /foo..../ would indeed be constant; but in the presence of bc. use overload::constant qr sub bless ... read more |
Joel Berger wrote: Alien::Base Final Report Summary With this report I end my grant for Alien::Base. I consider it to be a reasonable success and have hope that the project will continue further. It became, as perhaps I should have expected, a larger project than anticipated; the problems were rarely the anticipated ones. In the end Alien::Base faced two major problems: compile-time linking of the library and the localization of ... read more |
For this quarter, TPF Grants Committee have four different proposals. Who invite the Perl Community to comment on the proposals and their relevance to the community. Please comment on each grant on their specific page. "YACT Yet Another Conference Tool":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2013/05/2013q2-gp-yact---yet-another-c.html by Torsten Raudssus _ "rpm.perl.it":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2013/05/2013q2-gp-rpmperlit.html by _Jozef Kutej "Review of Perl Web Frameworks":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2013/05/2013q2-gp-review-of-perl-web-f.html by Neil Bowers "Next Release of Pinto With Key Features":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2013/05/2013q2-gp-next-release-of-pint.html by Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer ... read more |
Name: Torsten Raudssus Amount Requested: $3000 Synopsis The current Act software and their instances are an often discussed topic in the world of Perl. The migrating of those instances, and the move forward to more modern Perl solutions in the system are often discussed. Last year we were able to address and start a concept at the Quack and Hack Europe 2012, we called it YACT Yet Another Conference Toolkit, ... read more |
Name: Jozef Kutej Amount Requested: 2000 Synopsis Create similar page to http://deb.perl.it/ for RPM world. Benefits to the Perl Community For many sysadmins it's pretty common task to look for and install Perl distribution from Linux OS packages and only the rest via some CPAN shell. It would save them a lot of time if they can get this install instruction instantly via a web service. Deliverables http://rpm.perl.it/ RPM-PM distribution ... read more |
Name: Neil Bowers Amount Requested: $1500 Synopsis A review of the main modern web frameworks for Perl, somewhat in the style of the other reviews I've done: http://neilb.org/reviews/ Benefits to the Perl Community A comparison of the main web frameworks, with the same sample application available for all of them in github. This will help people make informed decisions, and hopefully encourage more people to "have a go" at web ... read more |
Name: Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer Amount Requested: $3000.00 Synopsis Pinto is a turnkey solution for constructing and managing local CPAN-like repositories of Perl modules. This purpose of this grant proposal is to obtain funding for development of the next release of Pinto, which will include specific features described below. The Pinto project is less than 2 years old, but it has already gained a modest user base and is potentially relevant ... read more |
Nicholas Clark writes: gcc 4.8.0 was released on 22nd March. This version of gcc has integrated Address Sanitizer, a Google project to provide a fast runtime heap and stack validation tool. I set it off building gcc from source, which pleasingly worked first time on the system I chose for the task. In turn blead built with it without problems, which is good in itself, and a known good starting ... read more |
The North American Yet Another Perl Conference is still seeking a few more sponsors to help make YAPC a success this year. "Benefits of being a sponsor":http://www.yapcna.org/yn2013/sponsorship.html include increasing your brand awareness, recruitment, and giving back to a language that give you so much. There are many different "levels of sponsorship ":http://www.yapcna.org/yn2013/levels-of-sponsorship.html with various perks available. So, please "become a sponsor":http://www.yapcna.org/yn2013/become-a-sponsor.html today. ... read more |
TPF is looking for contributions to the Outreach Program for Women and I am pleased to announce that Renée Bäcker has started us off with a pledge of 1000 Euros. Together with existing funding this gets us one intern so far in the first round, and a opening for the second. Now we need additional generous donations to keep this rolling. If you would like to donate to this program ... read more |
Dave Mitchell writes: This month I mainly worked on one of the 5.18 blocker tickets; in this case how bq. overload::constant qr sub interacts with "constant" regexes such as qr/foo/ and qr/foo if the sub replaces constant strings like "foo" with an overloaded object. It turns out this was something I hadn't anticipated in my re_eval reworking, and my code didn't handle it at all well. I'm now about 3/4 ... read more |
Nicholas Clark writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the February period. The first significant thing I worked on in February was a detailed review of Peter Martini's work towards an API for subroutine signatures. In particular, I wondered how much of the existing call checker hooks they could use. In turn, I wondered whether the call checker hooks were robust against some of the torture ... read more |
Ricardo Signes' "Perl QA Hackathon":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2013/02/perl-5-grant-application-trave-1.html grant has been successfully completed and closed. Details regarding the grant may be found on "his blog":http://rjbs.manxome.org/rubric/entry/1992. Please consider "making a donation of any amount":https://secure.donor.com/pf012/give to help support projects such as this. Details regarding the Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund may be found on "The Perl Foundation's web site":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund. ... read more |
As you might have noticed, TPF has been grating money for some big tasks, like funding Nicholas Clark or Dave Mitchel work on Perl 5. Nevertheless, TPF has a Grants Committee with its own budget to give grants for smaller projects, ranging from $500 to $3000. With this amount we do not expect to fund full-time work, but instead, use it as an incentive to complete some specific task. Therefore, ... read more |
I am pleased to announce that we will be taking part in the next round of the "Free and Open Source Outreach Program for Women.":https://live.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen This successful program was started in 2006 by the GNOME Foundation to encourage women to participate in the FOSS community. This round of the program is open to women looking for internships between June and September of 2013. Full details of the eligibility requirements can ... read more |
Dave Mitchell writes: Got out of the habit of fixing bugs for the last couple of months. Spent most of the time that I was able to devote to perl mainly doing other stuff; in particular, pumpkining the 5.14.4 security release, and trying to keep up-to-date with my p5p inbox, which seems to be a full-time job these days. Hopefully I'll be able to put lots of effort into working ... read more |
I am pleased to announce that Dr Nicholas Clark's "Improving Perl 5":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/08/grant-proposal-improving-perl.html grant has been extended by another 400 hours. I would like to thank everyone who commented on this "request":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2013/02/grant-extension-request---impr-3.html for their feedback. I would also like to thank all those who continue to provide financial support to the "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund. ... read more |
I am pleased to announce that Ricardo Signes's "grant application":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2013/02/perl-5-grant-application-trave-1.html for travel to the "Perl QA Hackathon":http://2013.qa-hackathon.org/qa2013/ has been accepted. I would to thank everyone who took the time to provide feedback on this grant application. The Perl QA Hackathon is taking place in Lancaster from Friday April 12th to Sunday April 14th 2013. If you would like to contribute directly to the 2013 Perl QA Hackathon they are "accepting ... read more |
Nicholas Clark writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the January period. After catching up with some of the e-mail backlog, I tried having another prod at the awkward clang/ASAN problem described last month. It turned out that I missed something. Key to replicating the problem was that one must turn on clang's optimiser. Of course, trying to debug a problem in the C code, I'd ... read more |
We need people excited about Perl and want YAPC to come to their City. Forget the Mississippi rule lets go all across America! Please have a prepared bid with location and simple budget emailed to me by May 15th, 2013! So get your ideas and plans together and lets get YAPC::NA::2014 planned. #yapc #yapcna #yapc-2014 ... read more |
As chair of the Grants Committee I am sorry to inform that this committee did not receive any grant proposal to be funded in this quarter. This is the second, consecutive, quarter without grant proposals. ... read more |
We have received the following Perl 5 grant application from Ricardo Signes. Before we vote on this proposal we would like to have a period of community consultation that will last seven days. Please leave feedback in the comments or if you prefer send email with your comments to karen at perlfoundation.org. Name Ricardo Signes Project Title Perl QA Hackathon 2013 Amount Requested: $1200 Synopsis This grant will be used ... read more |
Dr. Nicholas Clark has requested an extension of $20,000 for his "Improving Perl 5 grant":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/08/grant-proposal-improving-perl.html. This grant started in September 2011 and is on track to finish successfully in February 2013. The requested extension would allow Nicholas to devote another 400 hours to the project. The funds for this extension would come from the "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund. As well as weekly reports posted on the p5p mailing list ... read more |
From the grant manager: This project is in a phase where a bit of help from the community is required. Get in touch with Joel if you are able to help him with his problem. Joel Berger wrote: After a busy Christmas season and being engrossed in my upcoming thesis defense I have found it hard to find too much time to focus on Perl projects. Still Alien::Base has been ... read more |
Twenty-five years ago, Larry Wall conceived of a way to make his work a little bit easier by combining the UNIX tools he found most useful into something more like a general purpose programming language than the various shells available to him. This modest act started the chain of events that lead Perl to be one of the longest-standing F/OSS projects we have today. An unavoidable side effect of this ... read more |
To date, the P5CMF has been used to pay out $130,733 in grants for the improvement of Perl 5. We have allocated $35,610 towards additional grant work not yet completed. There remains $116,643 in unallocated grant funds. For full financial details regarding the P5CMF, please visit this "Google Doc":https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AkU6pBm3WGeedGlqV1d0OXFVaG8yVTVDRFI5c0hLOHc&output=html. For information regarding the Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund, including how it is administered and how to apply for a grant, ... read more |
Dave Mitchell writes: The first part of November was spent finishing off the PADRANGE optimisation and merging it into blead. Here's the commit message. After it, I'll discuss timings. bq. add PADRANGE op and $B::overlay bq. This commit implements three optimisations and one new feature. bq. The new feature is $B::overlay, which can be set to a hash ref, indexed by op address, that allows you to override the values ... read more |
Nicholas Clark writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the December period. A frustrating month. Having completed the investigation into the state of hashing described in November's report, and becoming comfortable that it wasn't likely to explode without warning, I turned to dealing with the backlog of everything else. Given that I've only been able to do about 2 weeks' work in the past 2 months, ... read more |
The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $2000 in March 2013. You don't have to have a large, complex, or lengthy project. You don't even have to be a Perl master or guru. If you have a good idea and the means and ability to accomplish it, we want to hear from you! Do you have something that could benefit the Perl community but ... read more |
Enrique Nell and Joaquin Ferrero reported: Project status: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkmrG_9Q4x15dC1MNWloU0lyUjhGa2NrdTVTOG5WZVE CPAN distribution: http://search.cpan.org/dist/POD2-ES/ Project host: https://github.com/zipf/perldoc-es If we hadn't lost so much time building a nuclear shelter in the backyard, our final report would have been ready by Christmas time... We still can't believe the Mayan prophecy was wrong!! This is our last monthly grant report. It also includes a summary of the tasks completed during this 6-month period. New files ... read more |
The Perl Foundation is proud to present this report to it's members. 2012 was a spectacular year for Perl and The Perl Foundation. TPF has supported the community via grants programs, conferences, and new outreach efforts. The community has, in turn, supported TPF through their generous donations of time and money. We look forward to continuing our support as we begin Perl's next 25 years. 2012 Year End Report ... read more |
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 ... read more |
Grant Conclusion Report Shlomi Fish has sent a Grant Conclusion Report: This is a final report of my grant of improving the Perl built-in debugger |
Nicholas Clark writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the November period. There was no report for October, as I wasn't able to do any work, due to an unforseen bureaucratic trip hazard. An "interesting" surprise emerged as a side effect of moving. It turned out that I need some paperwork to comply with something about three levels of prerequisites back from what I actually need ... read more |
Carl Mäsak writes: This is a report on the progress that I have made with my current Hague Grant, Implementation of macros in Rakudo. We're now at the halfway point of the grant, and Rakudo has an early, working implementation of macros. Here is the status of the deliverables identified in the original report: **D1. Completed. In Rakudo, you can now declare macros just like you declare ordinary subroutines. There's ... read more |
Joel Berger wrote: This month featured lots of work in the latter parts of Alien::Base. These improve library detection logic, pkg-config functionality and packlist support. I was especially pleased to get a bug report filed by bpo regular Toby Inkster. He is writing a provisional Alien::LibXML based on Alien::Base. He noticed some odd behaviors that we are still trying to work out. This feedback led to more improvements than just ... read more |
Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the October period. Last month was mostly spent continuing to work on the PADRANGE optimisation. The work is actually complete now, but was finished after the end of this report's scope, so will be covered in more detail in next month's report. Apart from working the PADRANGE optimisation itself, the work triggered some other pieces of work, ... read more |
Shlomi Fish reported: This report will be less formal and detailed than the other reports, because I have neglected to write the changes I did every day as I went. I continued to refactor |
Enrique Nell and Joaquin Ferrero reported: Project status: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkmrG_9Q4x15dC1MNWloU0lyUjhGa2NrdTVTOG5WZVE CPAN distribution: http://search.cpan.org/dist/POD2-ES/ Project host: https://github.com/zipf/perldoc-es After a brief interlude, we have resumed our reporting activity. A careful analysis of our report date slip trend shows strong evidence that our final report might be ready at Christmas time. During this month we updated to v5.16.2 and finally completed the translation of |
This quarter the TPF Grants Committee didn't receive any proposal for grant funding. In the next quarter we'll be receiving grant proposals again. ... read more |
Once again we will be attempting to participate in the ""Google Code-In":http://":http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2012 ... read more |
Joel Berger wrote: This month has been a good one for Alien::Base, and I'm happy to report that I believe that the grant is winding up. We saw a beta release and had a project night during which we hacked on a few issues, but also I was keenly observing people assessment of usability, which I consider key to the success of the project. I think I have only a ... read more |
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 ... read more |
I'm pleased to announce the Nicholas Clark's request for an extension to his "Improving Perl 5":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/08/grant-proposal-improving-perl.html grant has been approved. The extension will allow Nicholas to dedicate another 400 hours to this important work. I would like to thank everyone who provided feedback on this request and to all those who continue to provide financial support to the "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund. ... read more |
Shlomi Fish reported: 2012-Sep-25: Test |
I am pleased to announce that the books on YAPC::NA 2012 in Madison Wisconsin have now been closed. Thanks to the excellent management by the Madison Perl Mongers, the event was a success and has concluded with a net profit of $3,000. YAPC::NA 2012 details: Event Registration Income: $34,200 Sponsorship Income: $48,400 Less Expenses: -$79,600 Net Income: $3,000 Thanks, in particular, to the following financial contributors for helping to make ... read more |