Stefan has now come to a conclusion of his efforts with RakuAST. This mammoth task started previously by Jonathan Worthington. In the time since his award of the grant, he has made 823 commits to RakuAST, and his overall contribution to Raku in the past couple of years is second only to the very prolific Elizabeth Mattijsen. His contributions can be viewed on github. It is impossible to describe all

Paul writes: Hours: 4.5 SV vstring API https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/23075 1.5 PERL_MAGIC_env independence in hv.c https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/23076 4 HvSTASHAUX https://github.com/leonerd/perl5/tree/hv-stashaux 3 Rename any and all features https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/23105 Total: 13 hours

The Perl Community Roundtable met on March 21, via Zoom, and the following discussions were presented: Remembrance The Community Roundtable took a moment to remember Andrew Main and discussed his contributions to the Perl community over many years. North American Conference Planning Ruth Holloway, Conference Chair Planning for the 2025 TPRC is well underway; speaker selection is almost completed, and registration is open now at Eventbrite. The conference will be

For some time now, the TPRF has hosted a monthly "Communities and Reps" meeting, when bits of the community could get together and talk about what's going on in our diverse group of subcommunities. Beginning this week, we're expanding on this meeting, and turning it into the "Community Roundtable." Join us this Friday, 21 March, at 1730 UTC, via Zoom. Why Should I Attend? We hear it all the time

Tony writes: 2025/01/06 Monday 0.67 #22695 testing, follow-up 0.43 github notifications 0.75 #22804 research and comment 0.22 #22824 research and comment 1.08 #22882 research and comment 1.18 #22883 review discussion, work on test code 4.33 2025/01/07 Tuesday 0.25 #22888 testing and comment 0.08 #22868 briefly comment 0.33 #22864 review and approve 0.20 #22865 review and approve 0.38 #22889

Tony writes: 2024/12/02 Monday 0.18 github notifications 0.70 #22773 review updates, testing and approve 0.15 #22792 look over test failures, comment 0.30 #22788 rebase. squash and push for CI 0.38 #22799 review, research, comment and approve 0.33 #22795 review and approve 0.65 #22797 review and approve, research and comment 0.18 #22792 follow-up 0.22 #22784 review CI, apply to blead, perldelta

Early Bird Registration remains open for the Perl and Raku Conference 2025 in Greenville, SC, at the early price of $275. Ticket prices go up to $350 on April 15, so get your tickets right away! The conference team is working hard to put together a great program of speakers to help celebrate the Perl and Raku languages. Come on down to the Palmetto State and spend time with friends

Tony O'Dell has been working on a modernised and well documented Ecosystem management platform zeco. This is complex work that integrates contributor management and distro management, and is a vital cog in the evolution of a programming language and its accessibilty to its users. The handling of updates and secure,reliable, reproducible access to distros underpins the sustainable viability of such a platform. It was supported by this grant. Key to

Paul writes: Hours: 4 Regexp global pos API https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/22971 2 faster-signatures parser reshaping https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/22967 3 Lexical method invocation operator 1 Bugfix lexical methods field/signature https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/23030 https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/23031 Total: 10 hours

Dave writes: This is my monthly report on work done during Jan and Feb 2025, covered by my TPF perl core maintenance grant. I spent some time continuing to do various bits of code refactoring and test-adding on Extutils::ParseXS, as a precursor to adding reference-counted stack abilities to XS. I also fixed a bug in regexes which have embedded code blocks where, if the code-block code recurses and calls the