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

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.

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>

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,

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

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

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:

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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:

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