This is my final report for my second TPF perl5 maintenance grant, which has now come to an end. Many thanks to my grant monitors for their endless +1's First: the 'what I did last month' part of this report covers all of August and up to 10th September. I made a start on getting the build back into shape by starting to look at things like failing smokes and

Tony reports his July progress on maintaining Perl 5 core: Approximately 23 tickets were reviewed, and 1 patches were applied 19.37 #1420 working on a fix #1420 accessor for the split up last_in_*, start replacing accesses #1420 testing, fix some bugs, need more tests #1420 more tests, debugging ${^LAST_FH} problem #1420 more debugging, fixes, more tests #1420 code review, fix one problem, try to refactor a bit, debugging #1420 debugging

Dave reports the following for July: In July I managed to mostly catch up on the last few months of unread p5p emails, github notifications etc, and have been keeping up to date with them on a daily basis now. SUMMARY: 16:04 process p5p mailbox 16:04 TOTAL There are 12.6 hours left on the existing grant,

Patrick Böker has submitted the following grant progress report for his Raku CI Bot grant: In July I worked on the GitHub and OBS integrations. I decided to work on OBS first and tackle Azure once OBS and the system as a whole works. I implemented logic to parse GitHub hook messages and add them to an internal work queue. On the OBS side I added functionality to start test

Jonathan Worthing has submitted the following report on his RakuAST grant. Delays in publishing are purely my fault, not Jonathan's. Jonathan also gave a talk during the first Raku conference on the topic of RakuAST. It is a highly recommended watch. My work on RakuAST and the new RakuAST-based compiler frontend in June saw a further 40 test files from the Raku test suite start to pass in full. I

Paul "LeoNerd" Evans has submitted his final grant report for the LibUV grant. The Grants Committee will vote on its completion and payment. If you have feedback or question on its completion, please comment here. The latest release of UV version 2.000 indicates that this project is now fundamentally done. The CPAN version of UV, the libuv binding module, is now sufficiently complete and useable, to allow event systems and

The Grants Committee has concluded voting on the July 2021 round. One grant request was submitted: Grant Proposal: Maintaining Perl 5 Core VOTING RESULTS: Approved. 7 YES vote 0 NO votes We accept proposals throughout the year; our next round of review will begin in July. You can submit proposals at any time. If you want to help with funding and increase our budget, please visit our donations page. We

Approximately 30 tickets were reviewed, and 3 patches were applied 3.09 research, comment on PSC #024, review Neil’s perl quirks PSC #024 follow-up 2.49 #17521 research #17521 research #17521 research 11.28 #18534 review, re-work general xlocale.h handling #18534 testing, try to work out an autodoc issue #18534 fix some porting issues, push for CI #18534 testing my PR on freebsd, debugging, working

Synopsis This application is to extend into the future the TPF grant funding I have been receiving over the last ten years or so to maintain the Perl core. I'm one of the main maintainers of the Perl core internals, and new funding will help me to continue working on the core. Project Details This project will cover improvements to the perl core such as: general maintenance, bug fixes, performance

The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another round is starting. If you have an idea for doing some work that will benefit the Perl or Raku communities, please consider submitting a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 July 27, 2021, UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback through August 3rd, and we

Patrick Böker writes about the progress of his Raku CI Bot grant: Building on Khalids work, I improved the GitHub API auto-generation. Implemented and tested the logic to efficiently retrieve, package and store sets of Rakudo, NQP, MoarVM checkouts. I implemented and tested a nifty little helper to aid with asynchronous task processing. It's a trait that tacks onto a method and changes it so: It runs asynchronously.

This is a monthly report by Tony Cook on his Maintaining Perl 5 grant. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this possible. Approximately 36 tickets were reviewed, and 6 patches were applied 0.55 research, comment on https topic in PSC #021 2021-05-21 0.67 #15608 research and comment 0.93 #18660 review suggested test code, research 0.15 #18670 re-check, apply to blead 10.57 #18703 try to

The Grants Committee has concluded voting on the May 2021 round. Two grant requests were submitted: Grant Proposal: Raku Dispatch and Compiler Improvements VOTING RESULTS: Approved. 7 YES vote 0 NO votes, 3 ABSTAIN Grant Proposal: Persistent Data Structures for Raku VOTING RESULTS: Approved. 7 YES vote 0 NO votes, 3 ABSTAIN The Grants Committee is excited to see work begin on these. We accept proposals throughout the year; our

Regarding his RakuAST Grant, Jonathan Worthington reports some awesome progress for May 2021. Side note: due to a bug in the Markdown rendering in this blog post, the less-than and greater-than characters in code blocks are double-encoded. Please refer to this gist for a correctly rendered version. Anyway, here is Jonathan's report: During May I focused on filling out the regex part of RakuAST, with the result that the majority

Name Daniel Sockwell Synopsis Immutable, persistent data structures give a program certain superpowers that it's very hard to have in any other way: they allow the program to "time travel" they allow let the program share data across threads or asynchronously save it to disk without needing locks; they enable a much more purely functional style of programming which results in code that many software developers find much easier to

Name Jonathan Worthington Synopsis I currently have two ongoing grants: A Raku performance and reliability grant, under which almost all the time is currently dedicated to implementing a new generalized dispatch mechanism. Progress so far indicate it will offer both performance improvements and simplify future development. A RakuAST grant, which involves implementing a user-facing document object model for the Raku programming language. This will provide a

Jonathan wrote an update to his RakuAST grant RakuAST continues to grow to cover more of the Raku language, and the new RakuAST-based compiler frontend advances along with it. This month saw 30 further spectest files start passing in full using the new compiler frontend. New AST nodes were created and compilation implemented for the following language constructs: Placeholder parameters, both positional and named Sigilless variable declarations Loop labels The

The Grants Committee needs your help! We presently have an opening in the committee that needs to be filled. If you would be interested in assisting the TPF please contact me at tpf-grants-secretary at perlfoundation dot org. Thanks! Jason CromeDome

The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another round is starting. If you have an idea for doing some work that will benefit the Perl or Raku communities, please consider submitting a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 May 30, 2021, UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback through June 9th, and we

Regarding his Raku CI Bot grant, Patrick writes: In April I didn't find much time to work on the Raku CI Bot grant, because non computer things required my time. I added more API mappings to my clone of In particular I added relevant parts of the Checks, Pulls, OAuth and Issues APIs. I also rebased my changes on the fork of khalid who incidentally also started working on the