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

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

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

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;

Grant Proposal: Learning Perl 6, a book from O'Reilly Media At the invitation of the TPF board, brian has withdrawn the grant proposal for the Learning Perl 6 book, and will submit a proposal to TPF on other ways for TPF to participate in enhancing the visibility of Perl 6.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

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

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:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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:

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

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

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

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