We have received the following grant application under the "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund from Jess Robinson. 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: Jess Robinson Project Title: Improving Cross compilation of Perl 5 Synopsis: Perl 5 has several scripts and tools

"YAPC::NA 2012 in Madison, Wisconsin":http://yapcna.org/ is just six weeks away. With this years conference upon us, it is time to plan for 2013. The call for venue is officially open! The TPF Conference Committee will be accepting bids today through June 1st 2012. What is YAPC::NA? YAPC::NA is an annual Perl-focused conference held at various locations throughout North America. The conference is a grassroots symposia on the Perl programming language

It's over a year since my "last update":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/11/perl-6-tablets-first-progress.html here on Herbert Breunung's "Perl 6 Tablets":http://tablets.perl6.org/. Work continues on this project, however, and tablets 2 to 4 on Perl 6's "basic syntax":http://tablets.perl6.org/tablet-2-basic-syntax.html, "variables":http://tablets.perl6.org/tablet-3-variables.html and "operators":http://tablets.perl6.org/tablet-4-operators.html have progressed. The tablets have moved to their own site at "http://tablets.perl6.org/":http://tablets.perl6.org/ so please use this new address when referencing them. Herbert has written "three":http://blogs.perl.org/users/lichtkind/2012/04/a-real-grant-report.html "blog":http://blogs.perl.org/users/lichtkind/2012/04/perl-6-tablets-what-happened-this-week.html "posts":http://blogs.perl.org/users/lichtkind/2012/04/how-perl-documentation-could-look-like.html about his recent work. His "perl blog":http://blogs.perl.org/users/lichtkind/ will keep

Joel Berger wrote: After last month's breakneck development pace, I knew this month wouldn't be as gratifying, and indeed it turned into quite a slog. This month involved lots of little bug fixes, posting dev releases to CPAN, then waiting for test results from CPANtesters. As a side note, there are a larger number of reports coming from Solaris and BSD than I would have expected. Sadly one of the

David Golden reported: Current progress Three of the eight deliverables are complete: Publish a Chef cookbook for Perl interpreter deployment Publish a Chef cookbook for CPAN module deployment Publish a Chef cookbook for Plack application deployment These have been uploaded to the Opscode Community Cookbooks site in two separate cookbook distributions: perlbrew The perlbrew cookbook satisfies deliverables #1 and #2. It provides several "lightweight resource providers" that use perlbrew to

The North American "Yet Another Perl Conference" starts June 13th. "Registration":http://act.yapcna.org/2012/purchase is open. All of the workshops have already sold out, but there are still tickets available for the general conference and the spouses program. Also, if you want to a "reserve a hotel":http://blog.yapcna.org/post/16909963700/conference-hotel-registration-open room at the "YAPC::NA 2012":http://www.yapcna.org/ conference facilities then you need to do so now. Reservations close on May 1. See you at YAPC::NA!

Nicholas Clark writes: A short report this month as less work got done, due to illness and disruption. The single largest item of the month was spent getting my head around the state of cross compilation. Mostly this was figuring out the history and state of various cross compilation approaches in the core codebase, to help Jess Robinson refine a potential TPF grant application for cross compilation At the time

Nicholas Clark writes: Sorry for the delay in this report I've been ill, been away, been ill while away, and generally disrupted, and I wasn't the only one ill in the house. Fortunately everyone is well again, and the backlog of other tasks is considerably reduced. Zombie undead global backref destruction panics strike again. I don't know what it is with these critters, but another variant turned up, in almost

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the March period. Spent the month successfully bringing run-time regex code blocks into the new way of doing things. My previous work on this had handled the cases where the code appears within a literal regex, e.g. bq. /ab $r qr/xy /z$r/; In all the above cases, the code block is parsed and compiled by the

It is that time of the year, again, and here follows the usual message. I am sorry for not being more creative The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $2000 in May 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

We have received the following grant application from Paul Johnson. 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: Paul Johnson Project Title: Improving Devel::Cover Synopsis: In the past few months Booking.com has donated €100,000 to The Perl Foundation to aid the further development

I am pleased to announce that Nicholas Clark's "request":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/02/grant-extension-request---impr.html to extend his "Improving Perl 5 grant":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/08/grant-proposal-improving-perl.html has been successful. This extension would not have been possible without the generous contributions that have been made to the "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund. I would like to thank everyone who has supported this fund and in particular "Booking.com":http://www.booking.com/, "cPanel":http://www.cpanel.net/, "craigslist":http://www.craigslist.org/, "Dijkmat":http://www.dijkmat.nl/, "Liquid Web":http://www.liquidweb.com/, "Net-A-Porter":http://www.net-a-porter.com/, the "Oslo Perl Mongers":http://oslo.pm.org/, "perl-services.de":http://www.perl-services.de/, and the "Vienna

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the February period. I spent a couple of days rebasing my davem/re_eval branch to incorporate recent changes to blead, but apart from that didn't do anything, due to a mixture of illness, being stuck, and doing other things. The good news is that the illness and stuck-ness are both ended, so I have started work on the

Joel Berger wrote: Once again I would like the thank the Perl Foundation for supporting me in my effort to provide a mechanism to ease the creation of Alien:: modules. Further I'd like to thank the many Perlers who have commented in various places that this project is of interest and that they are looking forward to providing that Alien:: module that they have always meant to write. This is

David Golden reported: I have adapted the "proof of concept" code that I demonstrated at Perl Oasis based on issues discovered subsequently. The code is sufficient to deploy the "Hello World" application that will be the basis for one of the tutorials and the presentation. Over the next couple weeks, I will be working on documentation and preparing the "cookbooks" for release to Opscode's community Chef repository. I will also

In order to satisfy requirements involving the use of the word "Foundation" in our business name, the board of directors have voted to amend the articles of incorporation for The Perl Foundation with an updated set of purposes for the organization. The new purposes for which the corporation is organized are: cultivating a collaborative open source community and an ecosystem of computer language implementations collectively known as "Perl" and complementary

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 March. This extension would allow Nicholas to devote another 400 hours to the project. Details of the work completed so far can be read in the following blog posts: "Month 1":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/10/improving-perl-5-report-for-mo.html "Month 2":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/11/improving-perl-5-report-for-mo-1.html "Month 3":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/12/improving-perl-5-grant-report.html "Month 4":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/01/improving-perl-5-grant-report-1.html "Month 5":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/02/improving-perl-5-grant-report-2.html Before

After reading the community comments about the four grant proposals, and after the grant committee vote on the proposals, the results are: The grant proposal EPublisher Website, was voted for rejection. The grants Alien::Base Base classes for Alien:: modules and Cooking Perl with Chef were voted to be funded. Given to budget restrictions the grant proposal Easy installation of non-CPAN dependencies will not be founded on this round, but will

I am pleased to announce that Ricardo Signes's grant application for "travel to the QA Hackathon":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/01/perl-5-grant-application-trave.html has been accepted. 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. If you would like to contribute directly to the "2012 Perl QA Hackathon":http://2012.qa-hackathon.org/qa2012/ they are accepting "donations":http://2012.qa-hackathon.org/qa2012/donate.html.

Nicholas Clark writes: I finally got time to address the weak reference global destruction "panic" described in November's report. Now understanding the problem, the interim fix seemed clean and fast to implement. Of course no plan survives contact with the enemy. In this case, fixing the first panic revealed a second panic at a different point in the code. In turn, that took a lot of time to nail down