As some readers may recall, I mentioned in a previous post that we were evaluating whether to maintain the Community Advocacy Committee. This announcement was enough to move Mark Prather to action. He wrote to me shortly after the blog post went up and asked what he could do to help keep this committee and its mission alive. The answer was become the new committee chair and I'm happy to

Samantha McVey has made progress on her grant to improve the robustness of Unicode support in Rakudo. She is working in the following repos: https://github.com/samcv/UCD, https://github.com/samcv/Unicode-Grant. Here are a few highlights from her complete blog post. "In Roast there is a new version of GraphemeBreakTest.t. The script tests the contents of each grapheme individually from the GraphemeClusterBreak.txt file from the Unicode 9.0 test suite. Previously we only checked the

Zoffix Znet provided this report on May 29, 2017 The Grants Committee will vote on its completion and payment. If you have feedback or questions, please comment here COMPLETION Report Perl 6 IO TPF Grant This document is the May, 2017 progress report for I believe I reasonably satisfied the goals of the grant and consider it completed. This is the final report and may reference some of the work/commits

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the May/June 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 June 15th, 2017. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced approximately in one week. Revitalize blogs.perl.org Name: Andr� Walker Amount

TPF Board has received a new grant application under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. Before we vote on this proposal, we would like to get feedback from the Perl community. Please leave feedback in the comments or, if you prefer, email your comments to makoto at perlfoundation.org. IRC nickname: Zefram project title: Zefram maintaining the Perl 5 core ###synopsis I'd like a grant to work on the Perl 5 core,

TPF Board has received a new grant application as below. Before we vote on this proposal, we would like to get feedback from the Perl community. Please leave feedback in the comments or, if you prefer, email your comments to makoto at perlfoundation.org. Perl 6 Travel Grant Name: brian d foy Amount Requested: $2,500 Synopsis I'm passing through Europe in June and can extend my trip on either side to

The Perl Conference, 2017 will be held this year in Washington DC, at the US Patent and Trademark Office, from June 18 through June 23rd. This is the conference that many of us have affectionately known as YAPC::NA::17. If you haven't registered yet, please do so as soon as possible. We want to make sure we're providing the best possible experience for our participants, and to that end, accurate registration

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 June 2nd UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback and conclude acceptance by June 12th.

This is a monthly report by Dave Mitchell on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. The main things I did last month were: Fixd require's "Can't locate" error message so that it only mentions @INC if @INC was actually searched, and only gives the "you may need to install" hint if the filename maps to a

The first full day of OSCON sessions, the expo hall, and the hallway track was fun and interesting as always. The Perl Foundation has a great booth this year, right by the O'Reilly booth. We had a great day talking to Perl programmers new and veteran about what's new in the Perl community and in their Perl projects. It's also great to see that O'Reilly still shows the love for

The Perl Foundation is excited to have a booth at OSCON again this year. As part of our booth information and outreach we've put together a summary of some of the activities in the Perl world from 2016. Perl 5 The Perl 5 teams continued the steady release of new versions of Perl 5 with the release of 5.24 in 2016. This release included enhancements to regular expressions, Unicode 8.0

Chad Granun has been working on his Test2 documentation grant, sharing the time with a new family member Although there are not big changes on the documentation, itself, Chad has been working on an update to the Event API for Test2. That is now almost complete, he will soon put it out for trial, and then stable. Once released he will be able to move back to Test2-Manual where he

The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the March 2017 round. There were two proposals in this round: Improving the Robustness of Unicode Support… Improving the Robustness of Unicode Support in Rakudo on MoarVM Voting results: 6 Yes votes, and 2 abstentions with a score of 21 This grant is approved, and will be funded. Sam's previous contributions in this area make her likely to succeed in making marked

Zoffix Znet provided this report on April 19, 2017 Perl 6 IO TPF Grant: Monthly Report This document is the April, 2017 progress report for Timing As proposed to and approved by the Grant Manager, I've extended the due date for this grant by 1 extra month, in exchange for doing some extra optimization work on IO routines at no extra cost. The new completion date is May 22nd; right

This is a grant report by Jonathan Worthington on his grant under Perl 6 Core Development Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. I have completed the second 200 hours of my grant, funded by the Perl 6 core development fund. This report summarizes the work done during those 200 hours. In accordance with community feedback, the vast majority of effort has been put into reliability

Work on the blogs.perl.org grant, started in November 2015, has stalled. With no progress reports from the grantee since November 2016, and after a number of attempts on all sides to jumpstart the work, the Grants Committee has voted to cancel the grant, as provided in the rules of operation. Many on the Committee and in the community would like to see a successful update of blogs.perl.org. With that in

Tony Cook has requested an extension of $20,000 for his Maintaining the Perl 5 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: January 2017 December 2016 November 2016 October 2016 Before

This is a monthly report by Dave Mitchell on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. The main things I did last month were: working on fuzzer-related tickets in the security queue; working on tickets in the 5.26 blocker queue; investigating the possibility of storing short strings directly in the head of an SV, eliminating the need for an

Zoffix Znet provided this report on March 28, 2017 Perl 6 IO TPF Grant: Monthly Report This document is the March, 2017 progress report for Timing My delivery of the Action Plan was one week later than I originally expected to deliver it. The delay let me assess some of the big-picture consistency issues, which led to proposal to remove 15 methods from IO::Handle and to iron out naming and

The Grants Committee has received the following 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 12th, 2017. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced approximately in one week. RPerl User Documentation, Part 3 Name:

The Grants Committee has received the following 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 12th, 2017. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced approximately in one week. Improving the Robustness of Unicode Support in

Please join me in welcoming John SJ Anderson as the newest voting member of The Perl Foundation's Grants Committee. John has helped organize several recent YAPCs, given talks and training at YAPCs, and maintains several modules on CPAN. Additionally, as Makoto Nozaki is transitioning to the secretary of the TPF Board, he is vacating the position of GC Secretary, and I have been selected to to fill the role. My

Zoffix Znet provided this report on February 26, 2017 This document is the February, 2017 progress report for TPF Standardization, Test Coverage, and Documentation of Perl 6 I/O Routines grant Timing I'm currently running slightly behind the schedule outlined in the grant. I expect to complete the Action Plan and have it ratified by other core members by March 18th, which is the date of the 2017.03 compiler release.

The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period has come. This month's round is a little later than usual, due to the selection of a new GC Secretary This round will be slightly compressed, and we'll strive to get back on track for the next round. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will

We've been reviewing Perl Foundation committees over the last few months and I'm happy to report some new people have stepped into committee leadership roles. David Oswald is the new conferences committee chair. This position had gone vacant for a period as TPF Treasurer Dan Wright along with others took a more active role in planning for The Perl Conference. The board is happy to once again have someone in

This is a monthly report by Dave Mitchell on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. The main things I did last month were: Firstly, fixing various issues with scopes in regexes. In particular, code blocks sometimes failed to undo localisations when backtracking. For example the $s below wasn't always being restored when the B part of the match

The Perl Foundation is excited to announce that Makoto Nozaki, grants chair, has joined TPF board as secretary. He has served as grants chair since 2014 and has done a great job overseeing grants and providing funding for perl projects. In addition to supporting Makoto's TPF work, Two Sigma Investments, LP, Makoto's employer, has also provided donations to TPF for which we are very grateful. A focus for us this

This is a monthly report by Tony Cook on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. Approximately 38 tickets were reviewed, and 8 patches were applied 13.82 #122490 more merge conflicts #122490 more merge conflicts, track down warning sources #122490 track down warning sources, start merging test changes #122490 more test merging, testing,

Thanks to The Perl Foundation and our beloved sponsors, a large portion of the critical contributors to the Perl 5 Porters the core group of Perl 5 developers, were able to get together on November 11th, 2016 at the Booking.com headquarters in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, for our very first Perl 5 Core hackathon, nicknamed Perl 5 Hack. This is our report. It was a four-day event, composed of discussions on

Dave Mitchell writes: There are two main things I did in December First I sorted out infrastructure for ops which are called in boolean context. Currently PADHV and RV2HV ops are flagged specially if they are not only used in scalar context, but where the result they return will only ever be used as a boolean value; for example 'if This was originally done since a hash in scalar context

The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the January round. Proposal in this round Proposer Requested Amount Link to the Details Standardization, Test Coverage, and Documentation of Perl 6 I/O Routines USD 999 Proposal Voting Results Title Yes No Score Standardization, Test Coverage, and Documentation of Perl 6 I/O Routines 7 0 35 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 0 0 Definition of the score is found in

Dave Mitchell recently requested an extension of his Maintaining Perl 5 grant. I'm pleased to announce that the Board of Directors approved extension of another $20,000. I would like to thank the community members who took time to comment on this grant extension request and our sponsors who made funding the grant possible through our Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund.

The Perl Foundation's Grants Committee is looking for a new member. The new member will work at the committee in this large, high-profile nonprofit organization with other 13 members who include 4 White Camel Award recipients. The committee has presence in all the global regions and major Perl development threads. It's a volunteer position with no compensation. We would like to elect either one of 1> the Committee Secretary 2>

Tony Cook writes: Approximately 21 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 2 patches were applied. 4.33 #127149 re-work patch to fix a related issue, debugging #127149 debugging, comment on Encode #59 14.98 #127663 testing, minor polish, re-check, comment with patch #127663 reply to comment, work on additional patch for env control of the internal seed #127663 more internal seed env, comment with

Will Braswell has submitted his final report on his grant RPerl User Documentation, Part 2 The Grants Committee welcomes comments from the community before it votes on completion of the grant. MAJ RPerl User Documentation, Part 2, Final Report Deliverables Inch-stones Completeness Criteria RPerl User Documentation, Part 2, Final Report Name: Will Braswell Amount Requested: USD 1,600 Deliverables Deliverables for this grant proposal are: 1. Complete

Will Braswell reports that he has completed the deliverables for RPerl Docs #2: "Lots of big news for RPerl! First, Christmas saw the release of the new Perl-powered platform CloudForFree.org ;v1.0, codename Nimbostratus. Secondly, on New Years Day we released RPerl v2.4 codename Aurora. And last but not least, we are proud to announce the publication of Learning RPerl chapter 4, thereby completing part 2 of the TPF grant! Over

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

Chad Granun reports on his work on the Test2 Manual grant. The last month was devoted to: How to list the test tools in the modules dependencies; Tutorial for TODO tests; Tutorial for advanced test planning.

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:

brian d foy has announced the White Camel Awards for 2016 and we'd like to congratulate the winners. I'd like to add a special congratulations to Karen Pauley for all her work with Perl, both officially as TPF president and unofficially as a community member. Thanks to all of the winners for your constant efforts toward keeping the Perl community a vibrant and fun place to be.

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

Here is Will's report for November: Chapter 3 is now complete! The following new sections of Learning RPerl have been published: Section 3.10: Range Operator Section 3.11: Converting From Array To String Section 3.12: Program Control Using The for foreach Loops Section 3.12.1: The Range for Loop Section 3.12.2: The C-Style for Loop Section 3.12.3: The foreach Loop Section 3.13: Punctuation Variables Magic Section 3.14: reverse Operator

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 team that supports meta::cpan had a busy weekend as they completed their long project to upgrade all of the metacpan infrastructure. Thanks to the team for all of their work and to the sponsors who made meta::hack possible. The site looks and performs great!

A huge number of Perl users can trace their initial coding efforts back to O'Reilly's Learning Perl, now available in its 7th edition. The easy introduction and smooth tour of basic features through more powerful ones made it easy to get started, all with a focus on getting things done. brian d foy, well known in the Perl community and one of the authors of Learning Perl, has launched a

As Mark Keating reported earlier this month, Karen Pauley has stepped down as TPF president after a very successful tenure. Karen served for an amazing 6+ years and did a fantastic job. I'd like to join Mark and many other people in the Perl Community in thanking Karen for all of her work. She has truly set a high bar for the president role. As some might recall, Karen took

Since their third report on migrating blogs.perl.org, Evozon have been working hard to produce a public beta site. This beta site lets you, the community, test and evaluate the platform. If you are a regular user of blogs.perl.org, here's a great opportunity to help us make the release candidate the best version possible. As outlined in the original grant proposal, the site provides the following: features from the exisiting

Throughout our search we considered and visited venues in Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada, Florida, Washington D.C., and Virginia. Many people spent countless hours putting out feelers and soliciting bids. In particular, we would like to give a huge thanks to the Brew City Perl Mongers and the Detroit Perl Mongers: their efforts were invaluable in this process, and we hope that we can soon bring The Perl Conference to their fantastic

Chad continues working on the Test 2 Manual, with the following news: Introduction to testing with Test2 tutorial: https://github.com/Test-More/Test2-Manual/blob/master/lib/Test2/Manual/Testing/Introduction.pm Tutorial for converting from Test::More to Test2: https://github.com/Test-More/Test2-Manual/blob/master/lib/Test2/Manual/Testing/Migrating.pm

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

Tony Cook recently requested an extension of his Maintaining Perl 5 grant. This request was successful and Tony was awarded another $20,000. I would like to thank the community members who took time to comment on this grant extension request and our sponsors who made funding the grant possible through our Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund.

Paweł Murias continues to work on his "JavaScript backend for Rakudo":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2016/02/ian-hague-perl-6-grant-applica.html grant. Paweł Murias writes: Current State rakudo.js compiles 70% of the core setting. I'm working on getting it to compile the whole setting. The setting executes a bunch of code at compile time so the code the compiler is generated is validated to some degree I'm mostly fixing bugs, and implementing missing features in the backend While doing that

Will reports on RPerl documentation for September and most of October: "Chapter 3 is coming along nicely! The following new sections of Learning RPerl have been published: Section 3.5: 2-D Array Data Types Nested Arrays Section 3.6: qw Operator Section 3.7: Array Assignment Section 3.8: push pop Operators Section 3.9: shift unshift Operators Also, more extensive example code has been added to the following sections:

Dave Mitchell writes: I spent last month: eliminating the OP_PUSHRE op, converting OP_SPLIT from being a LISTOP to a PMOP, and making split faster see v5.25.5-71-gdbdb57e; working on various fuzzer tickets; trying to work out when one should use pad_free pad_swipe S_op_clear_gv or just plain SvREFCNT_dec I gave up on this for now; picking some quick and low-hanging fruit off my TODO list; Summary bq. 3:52 sassign is wrongly declared

Tony Cook writes: Approximately 42 tickets were reviewed, and 6 patches were applied. Hours Activity 0.93 %zu on HP-UX issue 3.22 #123981 updates, testing, comment 5.19 #126482 debugging #126482 bisect, review changes #126482 more debugging, comment 12.51 #127663 more tests, code review #127663 re-work, testing #127663 delete on abort, testing #127663 remove some later work, testing #127663 polish, testing #127663 review, push to smoke-me #127663 code review, testing, setup for

In the last two months, Chad Granum has been working on his grant. The latest news are described below: started to write about bundles, and realized there was a major shortcoming, so he has been improving Importer.pm to make writing bundles easier. wrote additional documentation for writing comparison objects for Test2::Compare, that will also present in the manual. Test2::Manual::EndToEnd was finished, in the

Dave Mitchell writes: I spent last month mainly working on "fuzzer" bug reports. Nothing really stands out as deserving special mention. Summary bq. 1:23 "Confused by eval behavior" thread 0:14 "perl #128940":https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=128940 "Use of uninitialized value $fh" mentions wrong variable 2:48 "perl #128951":https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=128951 heap-buffer-overflow in Perl_sv_vcatpvfn_flags 0:51 "perl #128952":https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=128952 stack-buffer-overflow in S_missingterm 1:41 "perl #128989":https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=128989 Bleadperl v5.25.3-266-g1d7e644 breaks VPIT/Variable-Magic-0.59.tar.gz 4:46 perl #129012 heap-buffer-overflow Perl_fbm_instr 2:04 "perl #129029":https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=129029 SIGBUS Perl_sv_peek 0:24

I am pleased to announce that "The Perl Foundation":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ will be taking part in "Outreachy":https://www.gnome.org/outreachy/ again this year. We are offering one full-time internship in the winter program, which will run from December 6th to April 6th. The application process is "now open":https://outreachy.gnome.org/?q=program_home&prg=7 and applications need to be submitted by October 17th. Our mentor, Dylan Hardison, from the Bugzilla project has provided a list of ideas and possible projects "on

Jonathan Worthington's recent "grant extension application":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2016/09/perl-6-performance-and-reliabi-2.html, through the "Perl 6 Core Development Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_6_core_development_fund, has been successful. This extension will allow Jonathan to dedicate another 200 hours to the grant. I would like to thank the community members who took time to comment on this grant extension request and our sponsors who made funding the grant possible.

Will reports progress on Ch. 3 of Learning RPerl during August: "This month we have published content for the chapter 3 opening and its first 4 sub-sections. Start learning how to use arrays in RPerl! CHAPTER 3: ARRAY VALUES VARIABLES Section 3.1: Lists vs Arrays Section 3.2: Array Data Types Section 3.3: How To Access Array Elements Section 3.4: Array Length Negative Indices MAJ

Tony Cook has requested an extension of $20,000 for his "Maintaining Perl 5 Grant":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2013/05/grant-application-maintaining.html. This grant has been running successfully since July 2013. If this extension is granted it 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

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

Jonathan has "successfully completed":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2016/08/perl-6-performance-and-reliabi-1.html his "Perl 6 Performance and Reliability Engineering":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2016/02/grant-proposal-perl-6-performa.html grant. He has requested an extension of $10,000 so that he can spend another 200 hours on this grant. This funding will come from the "Perl 6 Core Development Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_6_core_development_fund. Before we make a decision on this extension we would like to have a period of community consultation that will last for seven days. Please leave feedback in the

Jonathan Worthington writes: I have completed the initial 200 hours awarded under my "Perl 6 performance and reliability engineering grant":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2016/02/grant-proposal-perl-6-performa.html. This report summarizes what has been achieved in this time. I have also written a number of more detailed "blog posts":https://6guts.wordpress.com/ about my work. Tooling I implemented heap snapshots in MoarVM. This is a mechanism for taking recordings of what is in the heap after each garbage collection run. It

Tony Cook writes: Approximately 27 tickets were reviewed, and 5 patches were applied Hours Activity 5.02 #126203 review code for leak issue, apply original patch, find related issues, research #126203 more related issues #126203 email to jhi 0.95 #127663 re-familiarize, consider options 21.05 #127834 comments, fix some issues #127834 customized updates, testing, comment with new patchsets #127834 update patch sets, proposed perldelta #127834 review updates, research, comment #127834 fix some

Dave Mitchell writes: I spent last month mainly working on "fuzzer" bug reports, and trying to process some of the backlog in my p5p mailbox. Summary bq. 1:45 "Confused by eval behavior" thread 1:21 @INC issues 1:26 Deprecate /$empty_string/ 2:03 Assert fail in S_find_uninit_var 1:19 Assert fail in S_sublex_done 0:26 Segfault in Perl_gv_setref 0:14 Segfault due to stack overflow 3:16 fix build warnings and smoke failures 8:46 process p5p mailbox

I am pleased to report that Dave Mitchell's recent request to extend his "Maintaining the Perl 5 Core":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2013/09/grant-application-maintaining-1.html grant has been successful. The award of $20,000 will allow him to spend another 400 hours on this project. Thanks to everyone who provided feedback on this application and to all those who continue to provide financial support to the "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund. If you are interested in funding this

Will reports on the completion of Chapter 2 of Learning RPerl: "Initial work on chapter 2 of Learning RPerl is finally finished! Hopefully chapters 3 and 4 will not take quite so long to complete. All of the following sections have now been published: Section 2.4: Scalar Variables Section 2.4.1: Choosing Good Variable Names Section 2.4.2: Boolean Data Type Section 2.4.3: Unsigned Integer Data Type

Chad has been working slowly on his grant given some personal issues. Nevertheless, there is some progress on Test2-Manual, namely some formatting issues. You can peek Chad work on his GitHub repository, https://github.com/Test-More/Test2-Manual. Be sure to look both to the master and gh-pages branches, as neither gives a complete view of Chad plans in isolation.

Tony Cook writes: Approximately 23 tickets were reviewed, and 5 patches were applied Hours Activity 0.86 #127333 review, try to apply #127333 testing and apply to blead 5.55 #127380 comment #127380 testing aginst blead, pod fixes #127380 finalize pod fixes, testing and testing of backports, push to blead, maint-5.24 and maint-5.22, perldelta #127380 comment 9.68 #127663 testing, also #126710 #127663 debugging, GNUmakefile build issues #127663 debugging, re-work #127663 testing, fixes

Dave Mitchell writes: I didn't really do much that stands this month; I just reduced the backlog in my p5p mailbox a bit, and worked on several miscellaneous tickets. The most noteworthy bugfix related to getting overwritten while exiting an eval scope. Earlier work by Zefram had ensured that is assigned to in a late stage of scope unwinding, but it turns out that in void context or after a

Will Braswell provides this update: "RPerl v2.0 has been officially released, including the long-awaited automatic parallelization feature, which pushes us beyond the everyday speed of serial C++ to the bleeding-edge speed of parallel C++. Accordingly, the following Learning RPerl sections have been added or updated: Section 1.25.2: History Of RPerl Section 1.26: What's New In RPerl v2.0? APPENDIX A: EXERCISE ANSWERS B.8: Modes, Integer Type B.9: Modes, Number Type B.16:

Tony Cook writes: Approximately 33 tickets were reviewed, and 4 patches were applied Hours Activity 1.35 #126228 research, adapt to a new patch, testing and comment 1.47 #126686 review, testing and comment 0.98 #127234 testing and apply to blead 1.80 #127380 adjust one proposed patch, testing, comment #127380 comment, trying to push things along 37.34 #127663 work on path handling, temp file creation, handling #127663 re-work path storage #127663 new

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

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 weekly reports to the p5p mailing list as well as providing monthly summary reports that have been published on this blog, the most recent of which are linked below: "Report for Month 30":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2016/04/maintaining-the-perl-5-core-re-26.html "Report for Month 31":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2016/05/maintaining-the-perl-5-core-re-27.html

Chad Granum just completed his first Test2 grant, and took some time for rest and payment bureaucracy before starting his second grant, now documenting Test 2. This is the first report for this new grant. During the last weeks he worked in an initial Test2 tutorial, that was incorporated into his YAPC presentation available at https://test-more.github.io/Test2-Manual/#tutorial. Accordingly with his report, this is just the beginning on how to write tests.

Tony has supplied the second report for his "Maintaining Perl 5":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2013/05/grant-application-maintaining.html grant, which was recently successfully "extended":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2016/02/maintaining-perl-5---grant-ext-1.html. Tony Cook writes: Approximately 40 tickets were reviewed, and 3 patches were applied. Hours Activity 1.66 #121734 report cygwin issue upstream #121734 test upstream fix and comment #121734 comment on POSIX::strxfrm bug note 0.27 #122551 review discussion, TR::Perl bugs 2.23 #126188 debugging, try potential fixes, comment 0.92 #126203 reproduce, comment and supply

Dave Mitchell writes: I spent last month mainly getting Scope::Upper working on 5.24.0. It broke heavily after the context stack reworking that came with 5.23.8, due to its heavy reliance on the internal details of perl's context stack and scope exit behaviours. I don't intend in general spending so much time again on fixing up such CPAN modules; it's just that once I had started, I wanted to see it

In this issue Register today! Passes still available Q A with Larry Wall Sunday Arrival Dinner Tuesday night Social: Desserts and Drinks Tutorials Wednesday Night Pull Request Challenge Call for Speakers: Lightning Talks Call for Volunteers 2017 Venue Proposals Open! Registration The Early Registration deadline has passed, but it’s not too late! Conference passes are still available! The conference pass is now $350 for general admission. Certain discounts can still

Will Braswell continues his unrestricted production of R -Perl documentation: "May was yet another busy month for Learning RPerl, section 2.3.6 was huge so I split out all the command-line arguments into a new appendix B. We now have documentation for all of RPerl's 15 phases of operation, 27 command-line arguments, and approximately 200 RPerl-specific error messages, with even more coming soon! All of the following sections have now been

In this issue Registration deadlines approaching Keynote address: The Dark Art of Boatbuilding and Project Management A salty look at projects, people and customers Sponsor Spotlight: cPanel Registration deadlines approaching Book your room now! Conference rates are only available until June 1st! After June 1st rates return to the standard hotel rate with no guarantee of availability. Rooms are limited! Reserve yours today! And if you have trouble reserving this

Tony Cook writes: Approximately 48 tickets were reviewed, and 7 patches were applied |Hours Activity 1.57 investigate new ipsysv.t failures on darwin, create cpan #112827, fix in blead, #p5p unicode string behaviour discussion 4.60 #122287 testing #122287 work on a patch to Configure/Makefile.SH #122287 more work, testing cross platform, comment with patch #122287 double check patch, expand comment on patch 1.47 #124430 try to find why App::assh started working #124430

Dave Mitchell writes: I spent last month mainly working on various assorted RT tickets. Summary bq. 10:54 charset.t and subst.t fail on Solaris under -Duse64bitall 0:40 Bleadperl breaks TOKUHIROM/Module-Build-Pluggable-0.10.tar.gz on Windows 18:02 @INC issues 14:57 Blead breaks Scope::Upper 0:51 $=x~0 segfaults Perl 5.24.0-RC1-2-gde1d2c7 1:00 Slowdown in split list assign 9:50 process p5p mailbox 1:00 review Provide -Dfortify_inc 0:29 review and apply Get -DPERL_MEM_LOG working again 1:00 sort out a unconfig.h

Although we have no new progress reports for the blogs.perl.org migration since the third one, a development version of the site is available for testing at http://blogsperlorg.pearlbee.org/. If you use the existing site, please check that the new beta site works for you. Please leave a comment below if you have helpful suggestions for how to improve the new site. Make sure your suggestions fall within the

In this issue: Keynote Speaker: Larry Wall Girl Develop It! discounts available New to Perl Scholarships announced Schedule Released Sponsor Spotlight: craigslist Keynote Speaker: Larry Wall Larry Wall developed the Perl interpreter and language while working for System Development Corporation, which later became part of Unisys, finally releasing it in December of 1987. He is the co-author of Programming Perl

This is a completion report for the Test-Simple Test-Stream grant, by Chad Granum. The Grants Committee will vote on its completion and payment. If you have feedback or question on its completion, please comment here. Test-Simple Test-Stream grant complete This is a completion report for the Test-Simple Test-Stream grant. Note on name change and split During the course of the grant the Test-Stream project was renamed to Test2. Several modules

Will has got a lot done on RPerl in April. Here's his report: "All of section 2.1 and section 2.2 are now completed. RPerl v1.7 codename Tycho was released on April 1st now containing initial capabilities of generating stand-alone binary executable. All of the following sections of Learning RPerl have been published: Section 2.1.9: Truth Values Section 2.1.10: Floating-Point Error Section 2.1.11: Arithmetic Operators Section 2.1.12: Trigonometry Operators Section 2.1.13:

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

Dave Mitchell writes: I spent last month mainly: continuing to look into some of the CPAN breakage associated with my recent context work that's been merged into blead; continuing to look at smoke and 5.24 blocker issues Summary bq. 0:25 Perl_sv_clear: Assertion 1:11 Flawed environmental variable handling 5:24 regex qr/ fails to compile on x64 debugging optimized builds 15:53 dtrace/-DDEBUGGING builds now fail on Solaris 1:27 Bleadperl v5.23.7-133-g7b0c33a breaks WBRASWELL/RPerl-1.600000.tar.gz

Tony Cook writes: Approximately 57 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 14 patches were applied. and are related in that both problems are related to the same set of changes. Between perl 5.8 and 5.16 inclusive, perl cached the CV for DESTROY in overload magic for the stash. This was four times faster than the simple method lookup previously done each time an object needed to be destroyed.

Will Braswell's first report on the follows. "As planned, I've continued work where we left on in part 1 off the Learning RPerl grant. I've implemented a new mechanism for creating tables in POD, currently supporting 14 output formats, which I believe is significantly more than anyone else has achieved to date. learning_rperl_generate.sh 1. pod2text 2. pod2text color 3. pod2man 4. pod2man postscript 5.

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:

Dave Mitchell writes: I spent last month mainly: looking into some of the CPAN breakage associated with my recent context work that's been merged into blead; looking at a build failure with solaris, dtrace, shared library and static inline functions Summary bq. 1:00 Bleadperl breaks Algorithm-Permute 16:01 dtrace/-DDEBUGGING builds now fail on Solaris 6:07 fix build warnings and smoke failures 3:22 fixup CPAN distributions affected by context changes 6:11 fixup

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

Since our last report on the grant to revitalise blogs.perl.org, Amalia writes that Evozon have completed work on the following: 1. Homepage, accommodating latest blog posts 2. At this point, header is reflecting whether the user is logged in or not 3. Ability to register to the website 4. Ability to login to the website, go to admin, see posts 5. Ability to switch between

Tony Cook has requested an extension of $20,000 for his Maintaining Perl 5 grant. This grant has been running successfully since July 2013. If this extension is grounded it 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. As well as posting reports on the p5p mailing list Tony provides detailed monthly reports, the

Jonathan Worthington's "recent grant application":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2016/02/grant-proposal-perl-6-performa.html, through the "Perl 6 Core Development Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_6_core_development_fund, has been successful. This grant will allow Jonathan to dedicate 200 hours to improve both runtime and compiler performance of Rakudo Perl 6. I would like to thank all the community members who took time to comment on this grant request and our sponsors who made funding the grant possible.

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

YAPC::NA::2016 is fast approaching! There are many questions being asked, and I would like to take the time to address a few of them here. Where is the website? It did take us a bit longer to get off the ground than expected, but I’m happy to announce that the YAPC::NA::2016 website is up and running! You can find much of the content you’re looking for at http://www.yapcna.org/yn2016/ Where is

Tony Cook writes: Approximately 43 tickets were reviewed, and 11 patches were applied Hours Activity 2.38 #123737 testing, apply to blead #123737 testing, produce a patch and comment #123737 re-test, look for similar no_op issues, push to blead 2.15 #123788 re-check patch, testing #123788 more testing, apply to blead 4.37 #124387 work on autoload on top of above #124387 testing, code archaeology, produce patches and comment #124387 review test results,

Dave Mitchell writes: I didn't do much this month because I was mostly on vacation. Fixed a couple of bugs. I did merge in my context revamping work, but that's being separately funded by Booking.com. Summary: bq. 2:00 Assert fail/segfault in Perl_sv_pvn_force_flags 2:19 enhance Porting/bench.pl's display formats 3:57 process p5p mailbox 1:00 remove vestigial use of PRIVSHIFT **9:16 Total As of 2015/12/31: since the beginning of the grant: bq. 120.0

Tony Cook writes: Approximately 28 tickets were reviewed, and 5 patches were applied. Hours Activity 0.33 #123981 review and comment 0.38 #123991 re-test and apply to blead |4.24 #124097 research #124097 research, testing #124097 more research and testing, comment with new patch 1.62 #124840 work on reverting 8c34e50dc, deal with conflicts #124840 more conflicts, testing 2.08 #125540 testing, debugging, trying to understand base cause 0.43 #125789/#121048/#125341 test the open tickets

Dave Mitchell writes: This report notionally covers 2 months, but almost all of November has no hours because it was during a gap before my grant was extended. I spent most of my time fixing assorted RT tickets and smoke issues. Summary bq. 2:36 Illegal division by zero leads to Assertion 2:33 Unknown regexp modifier/unmatched 1:21 Bleadperl v5.23.1-199-ga5f4850 breaks BRUMLEVE/ddb-1.3.1.tar.gz 1:00 Out-of-bounds Reads 3:10 Perl_rpeep: Assertion `oldoldop->op_next oldop 8:48 fix

Jonathan Worthington has submitted the following grant proposal under the 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: Perl 6 Performance and Reliability Engineering Synopsis: Improve both runtime and compiler performance of Rakudo Perl

I am pleased to announce that Ricardo Signes' recent grant application to cover the cost of his travel to the QA Hackathon has been successful. I would like to thank everyone who provided feedback on this grant. This grant was awarded from our Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. If you would like to contribute to this fund please use our donation system or contact karen perlfoundation.org The QA Hackathon is

Are you an experienced Perl instructor who would like to offer a course at YAPC:NA this year in Orlando? We want to offer the Perl community a selection of courses and tutorials before and after the conference. Master Classes can be a half day full day or 2 days in length and will run on Sunday 19th, Thursday 23rd, or Friday 24th of June. To submit your proposal please send

The YAPC::NA::2016 call for speakers is now open! The Yet Another Perl Conference is a high-quality, inexpensive technical conference that celebrates the Perl programming language. The conference is accessible to everyone, regardless of experience, yet it remains valuable to the most skilled programmers. Each year the conference attracts hundreds of programmers from around the world, including luminaries such as Larry Wall, Ricardo Signes, and Damian Conway. We hope you will

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

Jonathan Worthington writes: I applied for a third and final extension of my Perl 6 Release Goals grant, which was published for comments in December and subsequently approved. The final extension granted a further 110 hours of work, which I completed prior to the Christmas release of Perl 6. This report covers the work that was done under this extension, and concludes with some final comments on the grant as

We have received the following 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 2016 Amount Requested: $1200 Synopsis: This grant will be used to pay

We have received the following Perl 6 Ian Hague Grant Application. 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: Paweł Murias Project Title: JavaScript backend for Rakudo Synopsis: Improve the JavaScript backend from handling NQP to full Perl 6.

In the last month, Chad has been working with Ricardo Signes rjbs doing final tweaking of Test2. For that, some new versions of Test2 and related modules have been published for testing and review purposes. For those who are lazy, some pointers here for Test2 Test2::Suite, Test2::Workflow and dev release of Test::Builder

Tony Cook writes: Approximately 54 tickets were reviewed, and 12 patches were applied. illustrates how some of perl's internal tools need to be careful of which parts of the language they use. The tr/// operator can do its job in one of two ways, if all the code points are between 0 and 255 with a 256 entry table of shorts, otherwise using a swash, which is created by

Evozon have been busy working on their grant to improve blogs.perl.org Since our first progress report they have worked hard analysing the project's requirements and implementing them in Jeff's public GitHub repository The project runs PearlBee using Docker and Carton. So far, the new system supports the following: RSS export Markdown editing Data migration from the old site ElasticSearch An inproved user interface Home page posts Per-user posts User profile

I am pleased to be able to bring you the news we have all been waiting for! We know the wait hasn't been easy, and so the YAPC::NA 2016 organizing committee would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your patience. It's been a long road getting to this point, but thankfully we have finally secured a location that best fits all of our needs. Throughout our search

Will Braswell has completed his RPerl Docs grant, submitting the following report: "I have released RPerl v1.51 with all grant work items now completed! 1a. Describe Eyapp EBNF grammar format and Grammar.eyp file sections http://rperl.org/learning_rperl.html#B.1%3A_Eyapp_Grammar_Format_%26_Sections 1b. Describe lexical token types http://rperl.org/learning_rperl.html#B.2%3A_Lexicon_Token_Types 1c. Describe operator precedence and associativity http://rperl.org/learning_rperl.html#B.3%3A_Syntax_Precedence_%26_Associativity 1d. Describe all grammar rules and productions 1e. Provide examples of valid code http://rperl.org/learning_rperl.html#B.4%3A_Syntax_Production_Rules 2a. Complete source code of solutions to chapters

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

Tony Cook writes: Approximately 46 tickets were reviewed, and 13 patches were applied. Hours Activity 1.98 #123658 review, testing, apply to blead 0.42 #123985, #123831 review, research, ask kid51 for a test build 2.93 #123994 review code, testing #123994 more testing, comment with some possible fixes 0.63 #124063 apply to blead with some fiddling 2.29 #124068 review, research #124068 more research, comment 0.85 #124080 review, testing, comment 0.35 #125569 research,

Will Braswell provides the following update on his RPerl doc grant. By my assessment of the inchstones, Will is well past the 60% mark and is doggedly making constant headway. "I've released RPerl v1.4 and v1.5 with updated Learning RPerl content: https://metacpan.org/release/RPerl For work item 2b, I am about halfway through writing the explanations of how to arrive at each code solution for the exercises in chapters 1 6: http://rperl.org/learning_rperl.html#APPENDIX_A%3A_EXERCISE_ANSWERS

Happy new year! 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 16th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback and conclude acceptance by

After the first month of work, in his grant, Chad reports the following news: I have been working with Ricardo Signes, and other members of the community to fine-tune the project Out of these discussions have come the following developments: Test-Stream is being split into 2 parts, only 1 part applies to this grant, and it is going to be called 'Test2'. Several parts of Test-Stream have been

I am pleased to announce that Sawyer X has joined the Grants Committee. Sawyer X is a frequent speaker at Perl conferences, an event organizer, and a dedicated CPAN contributor. He has been leading the Dancer web framework, organizing the Perl 5 Porters Summary emails, and is the recipient of this year's White Camel Award for outstanding non-technical contributions to the Perl community. I regret to announce that Ben Tilly

Jonathan has successfully completed his first grant extension of his "Perl 6 Release Goals":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/04/grant-proposal-perl-6-release.html grant. He has provided the following report and is asking for another extension to continue with this work. Before we make a decision on this extension we would like to have a period of community consultation that will last for seven days. Please leave feedback in the comments or, if you prefer, email your comments to

Will Braswell provides the following update on his RPerl doc grant: "For the Learning RPerl exercises, I found a way to work around Perlcritic and get chapter 3 exercise 3 to parse properly, which could be considered extra credit toward work item 2a. I've started formally writing the Learning RPerl textbook, which means we are most of the way done with work item 1b, 1e, 3a, and 3b. On Thanksgiving

The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the November round. Proposals in this round Proposer Requested Amount Link to the Details Ngangsi Richard Akumbo USD 6,938 Women in Technology, Cameroon Chad 'Exodist' Granum USD 2,500 Test::Simple Test::Stream stabilization and merge into perl-blead Chad 'Exodist' Granum USD 2,000 Test::Stream Manual Will Braswell USD 1,200 RPerl Alioth Benchmarks, Part 2 This proposal was carried over from the September round. Voting

Tony Cook writes: Approximately 42 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 7 patches were applied. Hours Activity 1.20 #120903 review, testing, apply to blead #120903 fix typo, half-write a perldelta entry and decide not to 0.97 #122368 review new patch, comment 0.65 #123831 review discussion, research and comment 2.52 #123867 review newest patches, testing #123867 review test results, apply to blead 2.98 #123981 travis modifications and testing #123981 review

Dave Mitchell writes: I spent October mainly working on two things. First, I optimised some common arithmetic operators: so that for the very common case of both args being simple ints in ranges that won't overflow, or both being floats, a simple C-level or whatever can be directly done. For more complex or mixed args, it falls back to the existing slower code. For and I optimised the simple integer

The Grants Committee has received four grant proposals for the November round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on them. Review the proposals below and please comment there. The Committee members will start the voting process on November 28th and the conclusion will be announced by November 30th. If your comment does not appear in 24 hours, it is likely that

We have received the following grant application "Women in Technology, Cameroon". Please leave feedback in the comments field by November 27th, 2015. If your comment does not appear in 24 hours, contact me at tpf-grants-secretary at perl-foundation.org. A project proposal for the promotion of technology entrepreneurs, providing a technology hub and training the next generation of technology entrepreneurs by empowering women and girls. Name: Ngangsi Richard Akumbo Founder

We have received the following grant application "Test::Simple Test::Stream stabilization and merge into perl-blead". Please leave feedback in the comments field by November 27th, 2015. If your comment does not appear in 24 hours, contact me at tpf-grants-secretary at perl-foundation.org. Test::Simple Test::Stream stabilization and merge into perl-blead Name: Chad Granum Amount Requested: USD 2,500 Synopsis Stabilize and release the Test-Stream Test-Simple overhaul. Benefits to the Perl Community Test-Simple

We have received the following grant application "Test::Stream Manual". Please leave feedback in the comments field by November 27th, 2015. If your comment does not appear in 24 hours, contact me at tpf-grants-secretary at perl-foundation.org. Test::Stream Manual Name: Chad 'Exodist' Granum. Amount Requested: USD 2,000 Synopsis I am proposing to write a Test::Stream manual. The Test::Stream distribution already has very complete module documentation. The manual will build off

We have received the following grant application "RPerl Alioth Benchmarks, Part 2". Please leave feedback in the comments field by November 27th, 2015. If your comment does not appear in 24 hours, contact me at tpf-grants-secretary at perl-foundation.org. RPerl Alioth Benchmarks, Part 2 Name: Will Braswell Amount Requested: USD 1,200 Synopsis RPerl v1.2 has been released with a working N-body benchmark, as promised. Thanks to RPerl, we are

Dave Mitchell has requested an extension of $20,000 for his "Maintaining the Perl 5 Core":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2013/09/grant-application-maintaining-1.html grant. This will allow him to dedicate another 400 hours to this work. During this grant he sent weekly reports to the p5p mailing list as well as providing monthly summary reports that have been published on this blog, the most recent of which are linked below: "Report for Month 22":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/09/maintaining-the-perl-5-core-re-19.html "Report for Month 23":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/09/maintaining-the-perl-5-core-re-20.html

We know that many of you are concerned about the status of YAPC::NA::2016. Let us assure you, we are working hard towards next year's event. Planning began approximately a month before YAPC::NA::2015 was over, however we've hit a number of roadblocks along the way. We haven't really been able to say much, until now, and that's been frustrating for us as well as for you. Thank you all for your

Dave Mitchell writes: I spent September mainly working on two things. First, I made the stack grow macros EXTEND and MEXTEND more robust against count truncating and wrapping, especially on platforms where the sizes of ints and pointers differ. The initial impetus to do this was a bug reported against the repeat operator in list mode on a platform with 32-bit pointers but 64-bit ints; but new compiler warnings generated

It has been quiet around the Act Voyager project... but some really important things are slowly coming together! To build a REST API for Act there are some frameworks that would be suitable... and none of them are perfect. And for a long time I had been pondering if I should use Dancer2 or the Web::Machine. Dancer2 is missing a lot of functionality desperately needed to make HTTP actually work.

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 16th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback and conclude acceptance by December 1st. The

Will Braswell provides the following report on RPerl documentation efforts in October: 'I have been diligently working on work item 2a, "Complete source code of solutions to chapters 1 6". This month, I have pushed over 30 commits to Github related to this grant, starting with dd57fcfc7cde28a4f6e46c1b3cbe0b751922ed9c. At this time, all exercises from Learning Perl chapters 1 through 6 are implemented in RPerl and parsing properly, with the exception of

Some time ago, The Perl Foundation awarded a grant to "improve blogs.perl.org":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/07/grant-proposal-revitalize-blog.html. Unfortunately, soon afterwards Jeff, the grant's recipient "ended up in hospital":http://blogs.perl.org/users/drforr/2015/09/post-yapc-update.html at YAPC::Europe. Fortunately, Jeff is recovering and has started work on the project with Amalia. They expect to have a more detailed plan for the project soon. Current work includes comparing the existing site's features to those Pearlbee offers, as well as database migration.

The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the September round. Voting Results Proposal details Title Yes No Abstain Score RPerl Doc 8 1 0 28 5 5 4 4 3 3 3 1 RPerl Benchmarks 5 2 2 10 3 3 2 1 1 RPerl Operators 0 4 5 RPerl Medium-Magic 0 4 5 Plerd 0 7 2 Definition of the score is found in 3.2 of the rules.

Jonathan Worthington has requested an extension of $10,000 for his "Perl 6 Release Goals":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/04/grant-proposal-perl-6-release.html grant. The funds for this extension would come from the "Perl 6 Core Development Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_6_core_development_fund. The requested extension would allow Jonathan to devote another 250 hours to the project. Jonathan has provided a "detailed report":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/09/perl-6-release-goals-initial-g.html for the work done so far, which also provides details of the work he plans to carry out if the extension

Jonathan Worthington writes: In April 2015 I started working on a "grant":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/04/grant-proposal-perl-6-release.html from The Perl Foundation's "Perl 6 Core Development Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_6_core_development_fund. The grant was provided to enable me to dedicate much more time to the Perl 6 project than would otherwise have been possible, and it has indeed enabled this. My work has been, and continues to be, focused on enabling the release of the Perl 6 language along with

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 57 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 12 patches were applied. Hours Activity 0.83 #120826 re-work documentation patch #120826 re-test, apply to blead, close 4.99 #120903 first pass over documentation update #120903 more documentation, testing, comment with patch #120903 local edits, comment 0.53 #121200 check it's the same issue, merge tickets, comment 0.08 #123543 review and resolve 0.67 #123658 comment 0.17 #123867 comment 0.42 #123879

The Grants Committee has received four grant proposals for the September round. With the one which was carried over from the July round, we have five proposals to choose from. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on them. Review the proposals below and please comment there. The Committee members will start the voting process on September 28th and the conclusion will

We have received the following grant application "RPerl Medium-Magic Grammar". Please leave feedback in the comments field by September 27th, 2015. If your comment does not appear in 24 hours, contact me at tpf-grants-secretary at perl-foundation.org. As we have four proposals on RPerl this time, please use RPerl User Documentation proposal if your comment is about RPerl in general and not specific to this proposal. RPerl Medium-Magic Grammar Name:

We have received the following grant application "RPerl Operators". Please leave feedback in the comments field by September 27th, 2015. If your comment does not appear in 24 hours, contact me at tpf-grants-secretary at perl-foundation.org. As we have four proposals on RPerl this time, please use RPerl User Documentation proposal if your comment is about RPerl in general and not specific to this proposal. RPerl Operators Name: Will Braswell

We have received the following grant application "RPerl Alioth Benchmarks, Part 2". Please leave feedback in the comments field by September 27th, 2015. If your comment does not appear in 24 hours, contact me at tpf-grants-secretary at perl-foundation.org. As we have four proposals on RPerl this time, please use RPerl User Documentation proposal if your comment is about RPerl in general and not specific to this proposal. RPerl Alioth Benchmarks,

We have received the following grant application "RPerl User Documentation". Please leave feedback in the comments field by September 27th, 2015. If your comment does not appear in 24 hours, contact me at tpf-grants-secretary at perl-foundation.org. As we have four proposals on RPerl this time, please use this entry if your comment is about RPerl in general and not specific to each RPerl proposal. RPerl User Documentation Name: Will

Raising Hopes, Raising Joy and Raising Money When you travel to Perl conferences, or talk on Perl channels, you will at some point hear about Liz and Wendy. Many of you reading this will already be familiar with the both of them and perhaps, like me, you will already have a deep respect for them as well. Liz and Wendy have been cornerstones of the Netherlands Perl community and the

Dave Mitchell writes: I spent August mainly working on two things. First, I continued working on re-jigging how scope entry and exit works I had already heavily reworked how subs are called, making a bare sub call: bc. sub f f use about 1/3 less instructions, branches etc. I've now made the more general loop and pp_enter context stuff use the new regime too

I am pleased to announce that the "recent grant application":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/08/perl-6-hague-grant-application-1.html from the Swiss Perl Workshop team has been successful. I would like to thank everyone who took the time to comment on this grant application. If you would like to help fund Perl 6 development please consider "donating":https://secure.donor.com/pf012/give to our new "Perl 6 Core Development Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_6_core_development_fund.

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 18th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback and conclude acceptance by October 2nd. The

Dave Mitchell writes: I spent July mainly working on two things. First, I continued to work on the whole issue of how subroutines are invoked and returned from, and especially how the various perl stacks are manipulated during this time, i.e. all the PUSHBLOCK/PUSHSUB stuff. I also started extending the work to other context types, such as loops. I have mainly concentrated on removing unnecessary fields from the CXt_SUB context

Tony Cook writes: Approximately 61 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 10 patches were applied. Hours Activity 0.82 #116054 review, close 120208, comment 2.98 #118127 review and briefly comment #118127 irc discussion, research, comment 1.03 #119515 review discussion, testing, apply to blead 1.38 #120826 review, review code, write up some documentation #120826 review, research, comment with patch 0.60 #122096 review and comment 0.13 #122629 review new discussion 0.50 #123599

Calling for all talks! The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop has already received some great talks and we're looking for a few more! Having already confirmed that Larry Wall will be attending this year's workshop to discuss the release of Perl 6 the organizers are looking to include two tracks of great talks! Talk submissions will continue to be accepted through Friday, August 28th. Visit pghpw.org/ppw2015 for more details and to submit

"Oetiker+Partner":http://www.oetiker.ch have donated 5,000 Swiss Francs to the Perl 6 grant fund. 2015 is turning into a signature year for the development and advancement of Perl 6. Earlier in the year Larry Wall announced that the Perl 6 team were working towards the 'official' Perl 6 Development Release and that they intended to have this ready by Christmas 2015. An important part of this is the grant for Jonathan Worthington

We have received the following Hague Grant application from the organisers of the Swiss Perl Workshop. Before we vote on this proposal we would like to have a period of community consultation for 7 days. Please leave feedback in the comments or if you prefer send email with your comments to karen at perlfoundation.org. Name: Matthias Bloch, Roman Baumer, Dirk Deimeke Project Title: Perl 6 Hackathon at the Swiss Perl

"Booking.com":http://www.booking.com donates $60,000 dollars to The Perl Foundation for continued support of the Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. It is our pleasure to announce that "Booking.com":http://www.booking.com has donated a further sum of $60,000 to the Perl Foundation to aid with further development of the Perl 5 programming language. This donation shows continued support to the Core Maintenance Fund that Booking.com has been a consistent advocate of for many years. Darren

Tony Cook writes: Approximately 65 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 14 patches were applied. Hours Activity 0.45 #122281 review, testing, apply to blead 0.48 #122405 review discussion and comment 1.22 #122872 review discussion, review latest patch and comment 0.27 #123264 retest and apply to blead 1.17 #123398 review discussion and code, testing, push to blead, comment 1.58 #123440 review and update, apply to blead and comment 1.18 #123658

Dave Mitchell writes: I spent June mainly continuing to work on the whole issue of how subroutines are invoked and returned from, and especially how the various perl stacks are manipulated during this time. I also fixed some more Coverity and smoke issues. Summary bq. 55:39 #124156: death during unwinding causes crash 1:11 make /\C/ an error 15:45 process p5p mailbox 10:01 silence compiler warnings **82:36 Total bq. 4.3 weeks

The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the July round. Proposal in this round Document and release Plerd, an open-source lightweight blogging engine, Jason McIntosh, USD 2,000 Revitalize blogs.perl.org, Jeffrey Goff and Amalia Pomian, USD 3,000 Voting Results Title Yes No Score Plerd 4 3 5 2 1 1 1 blogs.perl.org 8 0 35 5 5 5 5 5 5 4 1 Definition of the score is found in

I'm delighted to announce that Dave Mitchell's recent "grant extension request":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/06/grant-extension-request.html has been successful. This extension will allow Dave to continue with this work for another 400 hours. Thanks to everyone who provided feedback on this application and to all those who continue to provide financial support to the "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund. If you are interested in funding this work please contact karen perlfoundation.org or donate directly through

The Grants Committee has received two grant proposals for the July round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on the proposals. Review the proposals below and please comment there. The Committee members will start the voting process on July 27th and the conclusion will be announced by August 2nd. If your comment does not appear in 24 hours, it is likely

_ We are again reviewing this proposal. Please leave feedback by September 27, 2015._ We have received the following grant application "Document and release Plerd, an open-source lightweight blogging engine". Please leave feedback in the comments field by July 26th, 2015. If your comment does not appear in 24 hours, contact me at tpf-grants-secretary at perl-foundation.org. Document and release Plerd, an open-source lightweight blogging engine Name: Jason McIntosh Amount

We have received the following grant application "Revitalize blogs.perl.org". Please leave feedback in the comments field by July 26th, 2015. If your comment does not appear in 24 hours, contact me at tpf-grants-secretary at perl-foundation.org. Revitalize blogs.perl.org Name: Jeffrey Goff, Amalia Pomian Amount Requested: USD 3000 Synopsis blogs.perl.org is in need of replacement. Evozon would like to offer a customized instance of PearlBee in its place, with source

Tony Cook writes: Approximately 37 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 2 patches were applied. bulk88's patch in adds support for building perl in parallel on Win32 using dmake's -P option. I've spent some time trying to improve it, but ended up running into limitations in dmake, in particular it seems to call child makefiles with -S preventing any parallel builds in the child. If a GNU make makefile

Theo has published a blog post on builtinperl, which I think gives a good impression about progress on Act Voyager as well: http://blog.builtinperl.com/post/yapc-na-act-voyager Check it out! #act-voyager

Dave Mitchell writes: I spent the month doing two main things: fixing 5.22 blockers, and once there were no blockers left, I began work on looking at the whole issue of how subroutines are invoked and returned from, and especially how the various perl stacks are manipulated during this time. It turns out that 6 stacks are involved, and there is lots of duplicated code, difficulties with stacks being doubly

The previous round got no proposals and we seriously need one. It doesn't have to be a huge Perl project. Do you have anything in mind you want to spend a few weekends to work to help the Perl community? 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

I am pleased to announce that The Perl Foundation's Grants Committee has voted to treat Taiki Kawakami's grant to work on Perl::Lint as successfully completed. Since our most recent report Taiki has fixed a small bug. To help fund more work like this, please donate to TPF's grants fund

As we close YAPC::NA in Salt Lake City, we want to thank everyone who attended, organized, and sponsored this year's conference. Without our community coming together in support, we wouldn't have such a great event! This year, YAPC sold-out at 340 attendees with a reported attendance of over 350. Specifically, The Perl Foundation would like to thank our local organizing team for all of their hard work. David Oswald and

Dave Mitchell has requested an extension of $20,000 for his "Maintaining the Perl 5 Core":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2013/09/grant-application-maintaining-1.html grant. This will allow him to dedicate another 400 hours to this work. During this grant he sent weekly reports to the p5p mailing list as well as providing monthly summary reports that have been published on this blog, the most recent of which are linked below: "Report for Month 19":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/05/maintaining-the-perl-5-core-re-16.html "Report for Month 17

Tony Cook writes: Approximately 40 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 4 patches were applied. This month blead allowed patches only for blockers, so there won't many patches applied to blead. I spent much of my time working on blockers, both trying to solve them in blead, or to report issues to CPAN maintainers whose modules were broken. Hours Activity 0.20 #122136 review cpan tickets and update 2.92 #122159

The Act Voyager project has not come to a halt, although it has been a bit silent. My apologies for those who had been waiting last month for the report. Life has taken some turns, in my favour, and thanks to Rick Deller from Eligo, I got a nice job at Broadbean technologies in London and yes, moved from my lovely little hometown to the Perl capital of the United

Re: Call For Grant Proposals We have not got grant proposals. We are extending the deadline until the end of May. If you need ideas, rjbs's article is still relevant apart from the Gist one. If you have any questions, let us know at tpf-grants-secretary at perl-foundation.org.

I am pleased to announce that Bart Wiegmans' recent Hague Grant Application, "Advancing the MoarVM JIT":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/04/perl-6-hague-grant-application.html has been successful. I would like to thank everyone who provided feedback on this proposal.

Dave Mitchell writes: I spent the month mainly fixing issues that were 5.22 blockers. Summary bq. 2:18 Apparent failure to localize %^H 2:13 Bleadperl v5.21.6-89-gd648ffc breaks autobox 4:33 S_no_op: Assertion `s oldbp' failed 1:25 Perl_pp_substcont: Assertion failed 1:21 Unable to build 64-bit blead using gcc-4.8.2 1:21 Perl_ck_stringify: Assertion ->op_sibling> 10:57 Perl_sv_clear: Assertion 0:37 Perl_sv_2pv_flags: Assertion 2:09 null ptr deref Perl_cv_forget_slab 0:20 fix t/uni.parser.t under EBCDIC 10:02 more op_siblings stuff 7:27

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

Contribute to Perl and get some 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

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.

Earlier this month The Perl Foundation's Board Treasurer Dan Wright announced that ZipRecruiter has joined to support TPF and YAPC::NA as a Silver Sponsor. Not only will their sponsorship assist with YAPC::NA::2015 in Salt Lake City, but they will be supporting the efforts of The Perl Foundation year-round. "ZipRecruiter has used perl from our company's inception, and we've benefitted greatly from the language, CPAN and the perl community," said Will

It's a while since our last report on Perl::Lint but Taiki has made considerable progress since then, releasing 3 new versions of this Perl source code analyser. Perl::Lint doesn't yet support everything described in Taiki's original proposal for this TPF grant as it needs a few small improvements to match Perl::Critic. Despite this, Taiki has written a fast alternative to Perl::Critic that's easy to use, well documented and now has

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>

The Perl Foundation is pleased to announce DreamHost as one of the newest sponsors of YAPC::NA::2015. DreamHost uses Perl in their custom-built control panel, for managing a big part of their server infrastructure, and for distributing calculations between machines. They also use Perl for their hosting platform, as well as a web application platform. "DreamHost is honored to be sponsoring YAPC::NA! DreamHost was built upon a solid foundation of Perl

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,

For the March round, we got no applications. The next round will be in May. Grant updates: Start ACT Voyager by Theo van Hoesel: Enjoy his report and give feedback April 1 Act Perl::Lint Yet Another Static Analyzer for Perl5 by Taiki Kawakami: We got an update and the report will be posted next week. Modern Object Oriented Programming in Perl by Toby Inkster: No update from the grantee. The

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

Since the beginning of the year, some smaller steps had been made and things are looking good! First of all the the database schema had been changed to provide some additional things on request of some organisers. Now I realise that I also need to make new versions of the Act-out-of-the-Box vagrant-image once in a while. The DBIx::Class has been updated accordingly and it all works like a charm Secondly,

I had flu with a high fever for a week. Unfortunately this happened in the final week of the March grant acceptance period. Apologies I couldn't respond to inquiries in timely fashion. As we haven't received grant applications in this period, we will extend the deadline to March 22nd. To apply for a grant of up to $10,000, please refer to my previous post to understand how.

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