Joel Berger wrote: After another busy month outside of the Perl world, I have gotten a little more time in the last week to work on Alien::Base. I must especially thank fellow WindyCity.pm member David Mertens for working with me on some of the Mac problems involved. N.B. I also want to thank him for PDL::Graphics::Prima, which made the rest of my $work easier this month! If you need interactive

Nicholas Clark writes: The most significant activity for the month was discovering, investigating and iterating fixes for the various bugs now fixed on the branch smoke-me/require. This is the cause of the delay on making a 5.16.1 release, as Ricardo explained in "http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2012-07/msg00954.html":http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2012-07/msg00954.html and hence this report, as the issue only went public two days ago. There are two partly related problems. Both affect code which takes untrusted user data

I'm happy to announce that YAPC::NA in 2013 will be in Austin. We had two great locations to choose from, especially from the perspective of other interesting things to do outside the conference. Details and dates will be coming shortly. Congratulations to the Austin group!

Posting the bid submitted by Erica Baum for Austin to host YAPC::NA::2013. Austin YAPC Proposal.pdf

Posting the bid submitted by Mark Prather for Orlando to host YAPC::NA::2013. yapc2013 proposal.pdf

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

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the June period. This month saw the final merging of my re_eval branch back into blead, and incorporated in the 5.17.1 release. This consisted of about 125 commits, spread out over a year. The remainder of the month was spent fixing some of the issues thrown up by the new implementation. Some highlights of the new implementation

The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $2000 in August 2012. 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

Going to be at OSCON this year? The Perl track will have the traditional lightning talk session along with Larry's State of the Onion. If you've got something to share, you've got 2 days left to "submit your lightning talk":http://bit.ly/NhdLEs to give everyone your 5 minutes of wisdom on Thursday evening. TPF will also have a booth at the expo, so stop by and say hi.

I am pleased to announce that we have extended Dave Mitchell's "Fixing Perl 5 Core Bugs":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/02/grant-proposal-fixing-perl5-co.html grant and Nicholas Clark's "Improving Perl 5":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/08/grant-proposal-improving-perl.html grant. This will allow them both to spend another 400 hours improving the Perl 5 core. I would like to thank the community members who took time to provide feedback on this proposal and all those who have made donations to the "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund.

Jonathan Worthington writes: This is the final report for my Hague Grant on "Meta-model Improvements and Natively Typed Attributes":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/07/hague-grant-application-meta-m.html. There was also an "intermediate progress report":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/05/interim-grant-report-meta-mode.html. At the point of the intermediate progress report, a new version of NQP had been delivered. Its objects were implemented in terms of a new meta-object system, developed with the needs of Perl 6 in mind. However, at that point Rakudo had not started

Enrique Nell and Joaquin Ferrero reported: Project status: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkmrG_9Q4x15dC1MNWloU0lyUjhGa2NrdTVTOG5WZVE CPAN distribution: http://search.cpan.org/~enell/POD2-ES-5.16.0.04/ Project host: https://github.com/zipf/perldoc-es During the last month we updated POD2::ES from v5.14.2 to v5.16.0 and released to CPAN the updated distribution. Other translated files that still must be reviewed Tools We have implemented several changes in the post-processing script: Support for the new naming convention used for Readmes in v5.16 Handling of pod files containing the =encoding utf8

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. The grant, that is currently running, is on track to finish successfully at the end of June. This extension would allow Nicholas to devote another 400 hours to the project. Details of the recent work completed can be found in the following blog posts: "March 2012":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/04/improving-perl-5-grant-report-4.html "April 2012":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/06/improving-perl-5-grant-report-5.html "May 2012":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/06/improving-perl-5-grant-report-6.html Before we make a decision on

Nicholas Clark writes: Possibly the most unexpected discovery of May was determining precisely why Merijn's HP-UX smoker wasn't able to build with certain configuration options. The output summary grid looked like this, which is most strange: @O OK F Failure extended report at the bottom@ @X Failure under TEST but not under harness@ still running or test results not available@ @Build failures during: unknown or N/A@ @c Configure, m make,

Dave Mitchell has requested an extension of $20,000 for his "Fixing Perl5 Core Bugs":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/02/grant-proposal-fixing-perl5-co.html grant. During this grant he has sent weekly reports to the p5p mailing list as well as providing monthly summary reports that have been published on this blog. He has also provided a short summary of the work he completed during his "last extension":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/10/fixing-perl5-core-bugs-grant-e.html: My previous $20K extension has, over the last 9 months, been spent

Joel Berger wrote: Well its that time again. Thankfully the news is getting better once more! Much of my time which is earmarked for Perl went to preparing for my YAPC talks. I'm glad they went so well; thanks to all of you who attended. I did even get a question about Alien::Base during one of the Q&As, so I glad to know that people are interested. The news this

In accordance with the terms of my grant from TPF this is the monthly report for my work on improving Devel::Cover covering May 2012. This report is essentially the same as my report for the first week, but that will not be the usual case. If you read that report you can safely skip this one. You may recall that recently I submitted a grant proposal to The Perl Foundation

To give a few interested groups more time to prepare and submit their bids for this year, we're extending the deadline to July 1. You can see details on how to submit in "previous posts":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/04/yapcna-2013-call-for-venue.html. If you're at "YAPC::NA":http://yapcna.org right now and you're interested, you should attend Dan Wright's talk "So, you want to run a Perl event?":http://act.yapcna.org/2012/talk/107 and attend the "YAPC BOF":http://act.yapcna.org/2012/wiki?node=YAPC%20BOF.

For those of you who aren't able to attend YAPC::NA in person, this year's organizers set up live streams of the conference. You can use the "conference schedule":http://act.yapcna.org/2012/schedule to find which talks you want to see and then stream the room you are interested in. The rooms are: "Lowell Dining Room":http://ics.webcast.uwex.edu/mediasite/Catalog/pages/catalog.aspx?catalogId=1de9c319-010c-4585-8617-210873935dfa "Pyle 325":http://ics.webcast.uwex.edu/mediasite/Catalog/pages/catalog.aspx?catalogId=90b5b79a-ceb6-4084-8cca-8977ff1aa729 "Pyle 313":http://ics.webcast.uwex.edu/mediasite/Catalog/pages/catalog.aspx?catalogId=1c56eaf7-1178-4cb9-bf47-53e717ea74c2 "Pyle Vandenburg Auditorium":http://ics.webcast.uwex.edu/mediasite/Catalog/pages/catalog.aspx?catalogId=5b80d7ae-5fc7-46c4-98ba-5f770a8be940 You'll need Microsoft Silverlight, Adobe Flash, or Apple Quicktime to be able

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the May period. This month I continued to rework how the code blocks in are actually invoked, and the work is mostly finished. In particular, no longer SEGV; recursive calling etc works; paren captures work correctly in the presence of recursive and nested and I also found and fixed some buggy behaviour of $^N and when backtracking