I'm pleased to announce the Nicholas Clark's request for an extension to his "Improving Perl 5":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/08/grant-proposal-improving-perl.html grant has been approved. The extension will allow Nicholas to dedicate another 400 hours to this important work. I would like to thank everyone who provided feedback on this request 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.

Shlomi Fish reported: 2012-Sep-25: Test o inhibit_exit. 2012-Sep-28: Add some tests for o PrintRet. Commit: 81de4a156bc803cb68a711f9ef9de78c75b86c20 2012-Sep-30: Yesterday and today I started refactoring lib/perl5db.pl. I'm glad to say that the test suite caught some bugs introduced by refactoring. Commit: 85b0ebc0aba46f02639bd872967061727fa43b06 Filed an rt.perl.org bug with patches: https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=115084 2012-Oct-04: Did more refactoring to the perl debugger. Fixed a without a line number: https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=115110 Commit:24a3c3702109c5e7485eb6cab7d581199c9888cd` 2012-Oct-05: More refactoring leading ampersands and

I am pleased to announce that the books on YAPC::NA 2012 in Madison Wisconsin have now been closed. Thanks to the excellent management by the Madison Perl Mongers, the event was a success and has concluded with a net profit of $3,000. YAPC::NA 2012 details: Event Registration Income: $34,200 Sponsorship Income: $48,400 Less Expenses: -$79,600 Net Income: $3,000 Thanks, in particular, to the following financial contributors for helping to make

Enrique Nell and Joaquin Ferrero reported: Project status: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkmrG_9Q4x15dC1MNWloU0lyUjhGa2NrdTVTOG5WZVE CPAN distribution: http://search.cpan.org/dist/POD2-ES/ Project host: https://github.com/zipf/perldoc-es In the context of our terminology extraction efforts, we decided to give priority to perlglossary.pod, one of the largest Perl docs Life will be a lot easier if we freeze the terminology at an early stage of the project. This file's word count nearly doubles the volume we have been releasing in previous months so

The call for papers for YAPC::NA 2013 has been officially announced. Please email your papers to admin@yapcna.org On 11/8/2013 I was finally given the go ahead to release the dates for YAPC::NA 2013 "I just spoke with Will from Austin PM. We approve of you publishing the date Erica"

The Perl Foundation is pleased to be working with and promoting Kevin Carillo's research into newcomer experience and contributor behavior in Perl and other FOSS communities. You also can help by taking the time to "fill out this survey":https://limesurvey.sim.vuw.ac.nz/index.php?sid=89971&lang=en. Kevin is a PhD candidate in the School of Information Management at Victoria University of Wellington. His research topic is about the influence of newcomer experience on contributor behaviour and performance

Nicholas Clark has requested an extension of $20,000 for his "Improving Perl 5 grant":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/08/grant-proposal-improving-perl.html. This grant has been running since September 2011 and is on track to finish successfully this month. The requested extension would allow Nicholas to devote another 400 hours to the project. Nicholas provides detailed monthly reports and the recent ones can be found in the following blog posts: "June 2012":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/07/improving-perl-5-grant-report-7.html "July 2012":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/09/improving-perl-5-grant-report-8.html "August 2012":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/09/improving-perl-5-grant-report-9.html "September 2012":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/10/improving-perl-5-grant-report-10.html

Nicholas Clark writes: In September I finally emerged from the rabbit hole of PL_main_start, that I entered into at some point in mid July. Father Chrysostomos has refactored OP allocation to always use a slab allocator, as part of fixing some very long standing bugs to do with OPs. At the start of parsing, a new slab is allocated. While parsing is ongoing, the slab is "owned" by the CV

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the September period. This month I mostly spent my time: 1> Making regexes only copy the needed part of a string. In general when a regex is executed, and it is seen that captures exist or implicitly in the presence of or then perl makes a copy of the string that was matched against, so that subsequent

The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $2000 in November 2012. You don't have to have a large, complex, or lengthy project. You don't even have to be a Perl master or guru. If you have a good idea and the means and ability to accomplish it, we want to hear from you! Do you have something that could benefit the Perl community but

Shlomi Fish reported: 2012-Sep-08: Added a test for the w command for setting a watch expression. Added a test for theW command for removing a watch expression. Added a test for the W command for removing all watch expressions. Added a test for theocommand Added a test for theo anyoption?command. Added a test for theo option=value` command. Added a test for the Added a

Nicholas Clark writes: A fair chunk of the month was taken up with investigating three related areas: How code such as -e 'BEGIN {1}' is compiled, and the interaction between PL_main_cv, CvSTART PL_main_root and PL_main_start Code in op.c which calls CopLINE_set and warnings from multi-line constructions Building with -DPERL_DEBUG_READONLY_OPS to force shared ops to be read-only, and determining the causes of code trying to write to read-only ops Of these,

Paul Johnson writes: In accordance with the terms of my grant from TPF this is the monthly report for my work on improving Devel::Cover covering August 2012. This month I released Devel::Cover 0.93. The bulk of this report is taken from my weekly reports, so if you have read them there is little new here. One of the nice things about having this grant and being able to spend more

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the July/August period. I spent a bit of time fixing a few issues causes by my rewriting of the implementation, then started to look into the last unclosed ticket still attached to the re_eval meta-ticket. This concerns code within that modifies the string being matched against, and generally causes assertion failures or coredumps: bc. my $text "a";

Enrique Nell and Joaquin Ferrero reported: Project status: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkmrG_9Q4x15dC1MNWloU0lyUjhGa2NrdTVTOG5WZVE CPAN distribution: http://search.cpan.org/~enell/POD2-ES-5.16.1.02/ Project host: https://github.com/zipf/perldoc-es This month we updated POD2::ES from v5.16.0 to v5.16.1. It was a swift operation, since only one document changed Translated files not included in the distribution were also updated to v5.16.1. As mentioned in a previous report, v5.16.0 fixed the issues that prevented displaying correctly the extended characters in UTF-8 encoded files using perldoc in

Shlomi Fish reported: 2012-Sep-01: Plans for today: 1. Report the segfaults in Devel::Cover. Done: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79338 2. Add more tests. 3. Respond to this message by Rocky Bernstein: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg191414.html Done: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/09/msg191426.html 4. Blog about the grant on my blogs.perl.org blog Also mention the new CPAN distributions I have uploaded. Mention the fact I made use of the `b feature for debugging Games-Solitaire-Verify. Done: http://blogs.perl.org/users/shlomi_fish/2012/09/grant-for-improving-the-perl-debugger-new-cpan-distributions.html 2012-Sep-02: Plans for today: Handle the correspondence

Jess Robinson writes: tool designed to make using the cross-compiled gcc similar to a normal gcc. In the end it turned out to be more of a hinderance. Getting rid of it and using Android's suggestion for "--sysroot" as a gcc option means upgrading the NDK to the latest one is now simple. The SDK is now not required at all. The last 2 weeks I was at the

Nicholas Clark writes: More fun with compilers this month, with make utilities joining in. H. Merijn Brand and I identified this problem with HP's compiler a while back, but I'd not yet had time to fix it: bc. cc -DPERL_CORE -c -Ae -D_HPUX_SOURCE -Wl,+vnocompatwarnings +DD64 DDEBUGGING -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 +O 2 +Onolimit -g pp_sys.c cc: line 2976: panic 5172: Backend Assert Unimplemented CVT. echo 1 Of course, HP's make just

Shlomi Fish reported: 2012-Aug-28: I received the E-mail that my grant for improving the Perl debugger was accepted in the afternoon today My grant manager will be Alan Haggai Alavi, whom I talked with and successfully collaborated with in the past. I decided to start working. I checked the pending tests on my shlomif-perl-d-add-tests-take-2-may-git-burn-in-hell has given me some trouble in the past incarnation of the branch>, and after merging the

For this quarter we had two proposals. Grants' committee voted, and here are the results: Improve WriteAt suite by exporting books to pdf and epub formats proposed by Aliaksandr Zahatski, was voted for not being funded. Adding tests to and refactoring the perl debugger proposed by Shlomi Fish, was voted for funding.

I'm happy to announce that Heath Bair is our new Conferences Committee Chair. Heath was the organizer for YAPC::NA in Columbus in 2010 and he has remained passionate about YAPCs ever since. I'm looking forward to him bringing that passion to one of the most active committees in TPF. Please join me in congratulating Heath on his new role!

David Golden reported: Cooking Perl with Chef Grant Completion Report I am pleased to report the completion of my TPF grant, "Cooking Perl with Chef". The goal of this grant was to create ready-to-use tools and supporting tutorials that teach Perl developers how to deploy Perl applications repeatable and reliably using the Chef configuration management tool. In the section of the original proposal on my motivations for this grant, I

For this quarter we have two grant proposals being voted: "Improve WriteAt suite by exporting books to pdf and epub formats":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/08/2012q3-grant-proposal-improve.html proposed by Aliaksandr Zahatski "Adding tests to and refactoring the perl debugger regarding their relevance, value for money, etc. The GC will vote in these proposals, and we expect to publish the results by the end of the month.

Shlomi Fish Email: shlomif Amount Requested: $1500. Synopsis Add tests to the built-in perl debugger and refactor it. Benefits to the Perl Community The default perl debugger is useful and powerful. However, it suffers from lack of automated tests and its internal code quality leaves a lot to be desired. This project aims to improve the debugger's test coverage, and afterwards to refactor it. Deliverables 1. More automated tests for

Name: Aliaksandr Zahatski Email: zahatski Amount Requested: 1000$ Synopsis WriteAt http://search.cpan.org/perldoc suite for making books and maintaining docs in pod6 format. It is built on top of the Perl6::Pod implementation of Synopsis26. Currently WriteAt supports exporting books from pod6 to HTML format. This grant will allow me to add the export feature to pdf and epub formats. Benefits for the Perl Community The tools developed as a part of this

In accordance with the terms of my grant from TPF this is the monthly report for my work on improving Devel::Cover covering July 2012. This month I released Devel::Cover 0.90, 0.91 and 0.92. I wasn't able to spend as much time working on Devel::Cover this month as I had hoped to. The time I did spend was primarily on working through RT and github tickets, resolving those I could and

Enrique Nell and Joaquin Ferrero reported: Project status: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkmrG_9Q4x15dC1MNWloU0lyUjhGa2NrdTVTOG5WZVE CPAN distribution: http://search.cpan.org/~enell/POD2-ES-5.16.0.07/ Project host: https://github.com/zipf/perldoc-es During the second month we did a thorough proofreading of files included in POD2::ES which led to fixing several errors We also kept updating translated files to 5.16.0, and reviewed a few files that were included in the latest POD2::ES releases. While translating perlobj.pod, a bug in sample code was detected and reported through perlbug.

David Golden reported: Overview For those wondering about of updates on this grant, I'm pleased to be back with some significant progress on the teaching deliverables. Some circumstances in my personal life required me to put the grant on the back burner during June, but July and OSCON-centered conference-driven development have allowed me to rebuild some momentum. In particular, I have three things to announce: perlchef.com is now live. This

Patrick Michaud writes: This is an interim report for my Hague Grant on "Lists, Iterators, and Parcels":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/07/hague-grant-application-lists.html. This report has been far too long in coming; at the time of the original grant proposal it was expected that the design and implementation of Perl 6 lists and iterators was near completion, and that most of what remained to be done would be updating the documentation, tests, and Synopses. Since that

Josh McAdams is stepping down as conferences chair, so TPF is now accepting self-nominations for this role. This is a great opportunity to help the Perl community and is one of the key roles that can have a huge impact without writing code. You can take a look at the expectations for the role on the "conference roles page":http://www.perlfoundation.org/conferences_committee_roles. If you're interested, answer the questions at the bottom of the

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $2000 in August 2012. You don't have to have a large, complex, or lengthy project. You don't even have to be a Perl master or guru. If you have a good idea and the means and ability to accomplish it, we want to hear from you! Do you have something that could benefit the Perl community but

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

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

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

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

Nicholas Clark has requested an extension of $20,000 for his "Improving Perl 5 grant":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/08/grant-proposal-improving-perl.html. The grant, that is currently running, is on track to finish successfully at the end of June. This extension would allow Nicholas to devote another 400 hours to the project. Details of the recent work completed can be found in the following blog posts: "March 2012":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/04/improving-perl-5-grant-report-4.html "April 2012":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/06/improving-perl-5-grant-report-5.html "May 2012":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/06/improving-perl-5-grant-report-6.html Before we make a decision on

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Moritz has completed his grant and provided the following closing report. Moritz Lenz writes: After working for more than a year on my "grant on exceptions":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/02/hague-grant-application-struct.html, I am now confident that I have done all that I have promised, and can now close the grant. Deliverables A short summary of what I did for each deliverable follows D1: Specification "S32::Exception":http://perlcabal.org/syn/S32/Exception.html contains my work in this area. It provides information about

I am pleased to announce that Jess Robinson's grant application, "Improving Cross compilation of Perl 5":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/05/grant-application-improving-cr.html, has been successful. This grant will be managed by Tom Hukins and Renee Bäcker. I would like to thank everyone who provided feedback on this grant, both on our blog and during the consultation phase.

Nicholas Clark writes: The largest part of of the month was spent on various topics related to cleaning up the build process. In particular, simplifying the top-level Makefile, by removing duplication and self-recursion. On platforms that run Configure the Makefile is extracted from a shell script Makefile.SH. Most of it is written out verbatim, but there is some shell logic to generate OS or configuration specific code. In turn that

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the April period. Mostly spent the month improving how the code blocks in are actually invoked. Previously a proper entry wasn't made on the context stack, so things like caused erratic behaviour, and even seg faults. My new method makes use of the MULTICALL API rather than having its own hand-rolled implementation, so it benefits from code

The deadline for submitting proposals for hosting YAPC::NA 2013 is June 1st, which is only a few days away. The "original post":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/04/yapcna-2013-call-for-venue.html has more details.

Joel Berger wrote: This month's work on Alien::Base started really exciting. I had tracked down several bugs and was honing in on full Linux compatibiliy. Turns out much of my testing problems had been in the test suite, wherein I mimiced make/Makefile with a perl script but made some incorrect assumptions. The problem came when I went to look at OS X. The problem I have found is that Mac

The Grant Committee informs that there is a final result about the 2012Q2 Grant Proposals. The following two grants were voted for rejection: Easy installation of non-CPAN dependencies by Alexandr Ciornii Perl module for Linked Data by Tope Omitola Also, the following grant was voted for funding: Spanish Localization of the Perl Core Documentation by Enrique Nell and Joaquin Ferrero

David Golden reported: Current progress Three of the eight deliverables are complete and a fourth is substantially complete: Publish a Chef cookbook for Perl interpreter deployment Publish a Chef cookbook for CPAN module deployment Publish a Chef cookbook for Plack application deployment Improve the Pantry command line tool Pantry I released new versions of Pantry to CPAN, which add support for command-line configuration of Chef nodes and roles for use

This quarter, The Perl Foundation Grants Committee has three grant proposals. One of them was not funded in the last round, given to budget restrictions. Accordingly with GC rules it should be voted again in this round. Together with that, we have two new proposals. You can read their descriptions bellow, and you are invited to comment on their own posts. Your feedback is important for the Grants Committee. The

Name: Enrique Nell Language Lead Joaquin Ferrero Tech Lead Amount Requested: USD$2,000 Synopsis Spanish is the third most commonly used language on the Internet after English and Mandarin. It is also the second most studied language and second language in international communication, after English, in the world. Currently, there are 400 million native speakers and Spanish is the official language in 21 countries. However, the number of

Name: Tope Omitola Kjetil Kjernsmo will assist Tope with Perl and CPAN Amount Requested: How much is your project worth? $500 Synopsis The Semantic Web community has developed a vocabulary named VoID, which is a World Wide Web Consortium Interest Group Note, a de facto standard: http://www.w3.org/TR/void/ The goal of this project is to generate such descriptions, partly automatically, partly by hand-maintained descriptions, using RDF::Trine Benefits to the Perl Community

Name: Alexandr Ciornii Amount Requested: $2000 Synopsis Many CPAN modules depend on non-CPAN libraries Installation of such module requires that library be installed before installing CPAN module. For beginners it is more confusing as library may be installed, but its headers may not. I'd like to automate this step and install corresponding Linux package as part of module install. Currently main module of this project has codename CPAN::non, it will

I am pleased to announce that Paul Johnson's grant application, "Improving Devel::Cover":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/04/grant-application-improving-de.html, has been successful. The grant will be split in two phases, the second phase starting after the completion of the first. I would like to thank everyone who provided feedback on this grant, both on our blog and during the consultation phase.

We have received the following grant application under the "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund from Jess Robinson. Before we vote on this proposal we would like to get feedback and endorsements from the Perl community. Please leave feedback in the comments or send email with your comments to karen at perlfoundation.org. Name: Jess Robinson Project Title: Improving Cross compilation of Perl 5 Synopsis: Perl 5 has several scripts and tools

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is that time of the year, again, and here follows the usual message. I am sorry for not being more creative The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $2000 in May 2012. You don't have to have a large, complex, or lengthy project. You don't even have to be a Perl master or guru. If you have a good idea and the means

We have received the following grant application from Paul Johnson. Before we vote on this proposal we would like to get feedback and endorsements from the Perl community. Please leave feedback in the comments or send email with your comments to karen at perlfoundation.org. Name: Paul Johnson Project Title: Improving Devel::Cover Synopsis: In the past few months Booking.com has donated €100,000 to The Perl Foundation to aid the further development

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

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

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

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

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

Nicholas Clark has requested an extension of $20,000 for his "Improving Perl 5 grant":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/08/grant-proposal-improving-perl.html. The grant, that is currently running, is on track to finish successfully at the end of March. This extension would allow Nicholas to devote another 400 hours to the project. Details of the work completed so far can be read in the following blog posts: "Month 1":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/10/improving-perl-5-report-for-mo.html "Month 2":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/11/improving-perl-5-report-for-mo-1.html "Month 3":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/12/improving-perl-5-grant-report.html "Month 4":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/01/improving-perl-5-grant-report-1.html "Month 5":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/02/improving-perl-5-grant-report-2.html Before

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

I am pleased to announce that Ricardo Signes's grant application for "travel to the QA Hackathon":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/01/perl-5-grant-application-trave.html has been accepted. If you would like to help fund grants like this or any of our other projects please visit our "donation system":https://secure.donor.com/pf012/give. If you would like to contribute directly to the "2012 Perl QA Hackathon":http://2012.qa-hackathon.org/qa2012/ they are accepting "donations":http://2012.qa-hackathon.org/qa2012/donate.html.

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

The Perl Foundation Grants Committee is proud to present four grant proposals for community discussion. As in previous rounds, please comment and clarify any issue about the grant in each grant post and not in this post. The submitted grants are: "Alien::Base Base classes for Alien:: modules":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/02/2012q1-grant-proposal-alienbas.html by Joel Berger "EPublisher Website":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/02/2012q1-grant-proposal-epublish.html by Boris Däppen "Easy installation of non-CPAN dependencies":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/02/2012q1-grant-proposal-easy-ins.html by Alexandr Ciornii "Cooking Perl with Chef":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/02/2012q1-grant-proposal-cooking.html by David Golden

Cooking Perl with Chef Name: David Golden Email: Amount Requested: USD $2000 Synopsis I propose to create ready-to-use tools and supporting tutorials that teach Perl developers how to deploy Perl applications repeatable and reliably using the Chef configuration management tool. Benefits to the Perl Community First-class support for Perl in Chef, just like other web development languages Open cookbooks and tutorials to encourage sharing techniques and practices for app deployment

Name: Joel Berger Email: Amount Requested: $500 Synopsis Artur Bergman's documentation for the Alien namespace specifically says that there is no framework for Alien:: modules, however, in writing the Alien::GSL manpage I find that most of the code I am writing has nothing to do with the GSL library and could as easily apply to many external libraries. I intend for Alien::Base to comprise some base classes for other Alien::

Boris Däppen Email: Amount Requested: 800$ Synopsis Develop and deploy a website which offers the service of rendering different content into eBooks. There will be several input and output formats supported by the website. An explicit input option will be CPAN documentation. POD in general will be an input option. Output options will be eBook formats. The open EPUB but also Amazons MOBI format will be implemented. The framework used

Name: Alexandr Ciornii Email: Amount Requested: $2000 Synopsis Many CPAN modules depend on non-CPAN libraries Installation of such module requires that library be installed before installing CPAN module. For beginners it is more confusing as library may be installed, but its headers may not. I'd like to automate this step and install corresponding Linux package as part of module install. Currently main module of this project has codename CPAN::non, it

We have received the following Perl 5 grant application from Ricardo Signes. Before the Board votes on this proposal we would like to have a period of community consultation. 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 2012 Amount Requested: $900 Synopsis This grant will be used to pay for travel

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the December period. Spent it continuing my overhaul of the re_eval mechanism. This month I finished off fixing literal code blocks within patterns; that is to say, in all places where a code block appears literally within a quoted-regex context in perl source, that code block will only be compiled once, at the same time as the

The Perl Foundation is proud to announce that the craigslist Charitable Fund is supporting the Perl community with a generous donation of $100,000 toward Perl5 maintenance and for general use by the Perl Foundation. According to craigslist CEO and former Perl Hacker Jim Buckmaster, "craigslist has gloried in and relied upon Perl for most of its software development for more than a decade. craigslist Charitable Fund is honored to recognize

Nicholas Clark writes: The start of December was mostly spent unpicking and simplifying how embed.h is included in perl.h. embed.h is one of the core's generated headers, containing C pre-processor directives to simplify use of the C API functions, by wrapping them such that the programmer doesn't need to deal with the implementation details of ithreads. Over the years, embed.h has come to be included by perl.h in 4 different

Its that time of the year, again. The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $2000 in February 2012. You don't have to have a large, complex, or lengthy project. You don't even have to be a Perl master or guru. If you have a good idea and the means and ability to accomplish it, we want to hear from you! Do you have something

chromatic writes: Last year Perl.com came back to life, this time under the guidance of The Perl Foundation. We're glad to be back, publishing tips, tricks, and tutorials for novices, dabblers, and professionals alike! We've already published some great articles, but we need your help. What cool things are you doing with Perl in your work? What clever hacks have you perpetuated as you play? Which module did you just

Booking.com donates again to The Perl Foundation, gives €100,000 to Perl 5 development Booking.com have announced that they have donated a new grant of €100,000 to the Perl Foundation to aid with further development of the Perl 5 programming language. The grant follows Booking.com's $50,000 grant to TPF that was just recently successfully concluded, having contributed to a significant improvement in quality of the Perl 5 core. Booking.com is the

Dear Community, After the voting process, the grants committee rejected all grant proposals. One of them was rejected by not compliance with the GC rules, and the other were rejected by a vote of the committee. A new round of grant proposals will open next week.

In August of 2011 Gabor Szabo started an ambitious project intended to bring a snapshot of the Perl World to the wider community. That project was called "Perl Weekly":http://perlweekly.com/. Gabor had seen an issue in the community, in order to follow the latest news, learn about the latest events or keep up-to-date with important elements of the community you were required to sift through a large number of blogs, news

This year the Perl Foundation have been proud to send out a festive card to celebrate the, broadly Western, holiday season. The list of recipients was garnered from those who have supported the Foundation in the past year in many different ways, excluding those who have selected not to be contacted further. This method however was not wholly effective and I know that we missed a whole bunch of people

For some time there has been a square Perl Foundation Onion sticker doing the rounds at conferences and events and we are finally at the point where there are very few of them left. So I thought it was about time we had some new stickers for the organisation so that we can stick them on people and things at the many Perl and non-Perl related events. This is the

Dear Community, In the last two months we had a call for grant proposals. We got four proposals that are now available for discussion. Please follow the links below, read each proposal, and comment about the relevance of the grant, and if you think TPF should sponsor that work. "#103612: Still perl-controlled alcohol distillation system":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/12/2011q4-grant-proposal-still--.html by Steve Eirium "#104490.1: raidlax raid5-style redundancy above the filesystem":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/12/2011q4-grant-proposal-raidlax.html by Steve Eirium "#104490.2: recogniser

Steve Eirium DISCUSSION In a world of bank bailouts and wikipedia's cries for funding, one thing rises above the swamp of crap: making alcohol. Clearly one of the best things to be doing on the surface of a planet, it is only natural that some fusion would erupt on the interface with perl. Operating a reflux still is a fumey experience of careful timing. To avoid dying or going blind,

Steve Eirium DISCUSSION Browse for a file in nautilus you are seeing a staggering lack of form that shrouds what's there amongst itself. You feel clinking fatigue as you struggle to apply your natural capacities for visual recognition to this stark landscape of despairing monotony. What about all the chaos that went into the creation of this mess? It's in the order of the dates, you feebly suppose. I hope

Steve Eirium DISCUSSION RAID5 is well-understood but under-utilised, mostly due to the massive logistical problems of doing anything with it. RAID is a layer below the filesystem and above the disk partitions, one would have to be some kind of pervert to bother with such arcane nonsense. Just google around to see what a wasteland of human experience it is. The reality of the security you get on the life

Name: Allyson Whitney-Caputo Email: Amount Requested: USD10,000 Synopsis Perl is used by companies and taught in computer science classes around the world, but the most up-to-date Perl documentation is only readily available in English. There have been attempts over the years to translate Perl's documentation into other languages, but all have been abandoned. The proposed grant would support the complete Turkish localization of this documentation.   Benefits to the

Nicholas Clark writes: A fair chunk of November was spent on disentangling pod/buildtoc Originally pod/buildtoc was a script run by the pumpking to rebuild pod/buildtoc.pod, and pod/buildtoc.pod was shipped in the distribution. In 2003 I extended it to add code to regenerate the lists of Pod files in various Makefiles, which were repetitive to maintain manually, and contained several errors where particular files were omitted. The assumption was that pod/buildtoc

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the November period. Spent it continuing my overhaul of the re_eval mechanism. This month I made literal code blocks work properly within runtime patterns, i.e. /$runtime I also made it so that qr//'s embedded within other patterns are no longer simply stringified and interpolated into the new pattern; instead, any code blocks within the qr are

In December of 2008, Booking.com provided a $50,000 grant for the development and maintenance of Perl. In February of 2010, Dave Mitchel submitted a grant proposal to use $25,000 of these funds for Fixing Perl5 Core Bugs. This grant was eventually accepted and then extended twice. The grant has been a massive success and has allowed Dave Mitchell to put in over 1,000 hours fixing bugs in Perl 5. Thanks

I am happy to announce that Dr. Nicholas Clark's request for an extension of his "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Grant":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund, "Improving Perl 5":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/08/grant-proposal-improving-perl.html, has been accepted. This extension will allow Nicholas to spend another 400 hours working on the Perl 5 core. Since the "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund was created in June we have raised a total of $58,856. I would like to thank everyone who has supported this

Michael Schwern didn't finish his grant in the usual way, completing all the proposed milestones, but he was forced into it, as the Grants Committee decided a hard deadline for the grant We asked Schwern a final report, stating what was done, and what is missing. This report will be evaluated by the Grants Committee members, deciding whether Schwern should be paid for the full grant. The result is completely

We have received the following "Hague Grant":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ian_hague_perl_6_development_grants application from Jonathan "Duke" Leto. 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 Jonathan "Duke" Leto Project Title PL/Perl6 Infrastructure and Improvements Synopsis The proposed grant would support the development of PL/Perl6,

The Grants Committee just decided to extend the deadline of grant proposals call. If you have any interesting project you think is relevant to the whole Perl community, and you need some cash as an incentive, this is your chance. New deadline, November 30th. Its that time of the year, again. The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $2000 in November 2011. In the

Nicholas Clark has requested an extension of $20,000 for his "Improving Perl 5 grant":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/08/grant-proposal-improving-perl.html. The grant, that is currently running, is on track to finish successfully at the end of November. Before we make a decision on this extension we would like to have a period of community consultation, which will last for seven days. Please leave feedback in the comments or if you prefer send email with your comments

I am pleased to announce that Carl Mäsak's Hague Grant application, "Implementation of macros in Rakudo":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/09/hague-grant-application-implem.html, has been accepted. I would like to thank everyone who provided feedback on this proposal. If you would like to help fund grants like this or any of our other projects please visit our "donation system":https://secure.donor.com/pf012/give.

Nicholas Clark writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the October period. automating git bisect: I continued the work I started at the end of September to automate the use of git bisect. My hope is that it's now easy enough for anyone who finds a core perl behaviour change that affects them to use it to find the commit that caused it and the associated

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the October period. Spent it mainly working on fixing literal code within runtime and qr//, e.g. /$runtime Over the last month I have averaged 15.4 hours per week. As of 2011/10/31: since the beginning of the grant: 86.4 weeks 957.8 total hours 11.1 average hours per week Since the recent extending of the

I am pleased to announce that Dave Mitchell's request to have his "Fixing Perl5 Core Bugs":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/02/grant-proposal-fixing-perl5-co.html grant "extended":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/09/fixing-perl5-core-bugs---grant-1.html has been successful. This extension would not have been possible without the generous contributions that have been made to the "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund. I would like to thank everyone who has supported this fund and in particular "Booking.com":http://www.booking.com/, "cPanel":http://www.cpanel.net/, "Dijkmat":http://www.dijkmat.nl/, "Liquid Web":http://www.liquidweb.com/, "Net-A-Porter":http://www.net-a-porter.com/, the "Oslo Perl Mongers":http://oslo.pm.org/, "perl-services.de":http://www.perl-services.de/, and the

Nicholas Clark writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the September period. Highlights are: POSIX: POSIX::Termios and POSIX::SigSet no longer crash with ithreads The XS code has been refactored to reduce the size of the shared object by about 12%, with no change in functionality. More POSIX functions now have tests. Storable: Should now pass tests with older version of Test::More Should now build all the

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the September period. Spent it mainly continuing to work on fixing the design flaws in re_evals I'm currently working on literal code within qr//. Over the last month I have averaged 6.5 hours per week. As of 2011/09/30: since the beginning of the grant: 82.4 weeks 892.9 total hours 10.8 average hours per week

Dave Mitchell has requested an extension of $20,000 for his "Fixing Perl5 Core Bugs":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/02/grant-proposal-fixing-perl5-co.html grant. During this grant he has sent weekly reports to the p5p mailing list as well as providing monthly summary reports that have been published on this blog. He has also provided the following summary of his work to date: In the course of the last year and a half, I have closed 68 bug tickets

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the August period. Spent it mainly working on fixing the design flaws in re_evals I now have it mostly fixed for the literal and non-qr case, in the branch davem/re_eval Over the last month I have averaged 14 hours per week. As of 2011/08/31: since the beginning of the grant: 77.4 weeks 864.2 total hours

Liquid Web are the latest company to donate the significant sum of $10,000 to the Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund, Liquid Web wish to "assist in the continued development and maintenance of the dynamic and powerful Perl programming language". "Liquid Web, Inc.":http://www.LiquidWeb.com are a rapidly growing managed Web Hosting company, with locations in Michigan and Arizona with a clear commitment to innovation and development. Liquid Web has developed much of

We have received the following Hague Grant application from Carl Mäsak. Before we vote on this proposal we would like to have a period of community consultation. Please leave feedback in the comments or if you prefer send email with your comments to karen at perlfoundation.org. Name Carl Mäsak Project Title Implementation of macros in Rakudo Synopsis This project will provide Rakudo Perl with AST-based macros. Recently I started discussing

I am happy to announce that Dr. Nicholas Clark's grant proposal, "Improving Perl 5":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/08/grant-proposal-improving-perl.html, has been accepted. Thanks goes to the community members who took time to provide feedback on this proposal, to Jesse Vincent, and to all those who have made donations to the "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund.

Series Introduction This is a series of articles on various elements of the Perl community that I like to refer to as the 'Perlverse'. The series is not in a particular order and election to it is entirely subjective and mostly based around my knowledge of the person or item. They are intended to highlight the rich variety of people, companies, projects and events that happen in the Perl world

This year's Google Summer of Code came to an official close on Monday 29th September 2011. Let me briefly remind you of our students and mentors: André Walker Rework Catalyst component setup code Mentored by Tomas Doran and Eden Cardim Brian Neil Fraser Making the Perl Core UTF-8 clean Mentored by Florian Ragwitz and Zefram Carlos Ivan Sosa Removing the upgrading necessity of the Dancer script with

As announced by Karen Pauley at this year's YAPC::EU in Riga, Latvia, "NET-A-PORTER.COM":http://www.net-a-porter.com, the world's premier online luxury fashion retailer, will donate $10,000 to the Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. "NET-A-PORTER":http://www.net-a-porter.com is committed to innovations in web technology and has created a bespoke e-Commerce platform to offer its customers a fast, responsive and interactive user experience. It uses Perl for a number of its programs and makes this donation as

It has been recently announced that "LOVEFiLM":http://www.lovefilm.com/, Europe's largest subscription service, are supporting the Perl community by assisting with the maintenance of regular programs such as memberships and grants. The people at "LOVEFiLM":http://www.lovefilm.com/ have seen a rapid expansion of both their service and product over the past seven years and they are all proud of its system built upon Perl. Mike Blakemore, Chief Technology Officer at "LOVEFiLM":http://www.lovefilm.com/ states: "Perl underpins

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the July period. Spent it mainly working on fixing the design flaws in re_evals Over the last month I have averaged 6 hours per week. As of 2011/07/31: since the beginning of the grant: 73.0 weeks 799.0 total hours 10.9 average hours per week There are 101 hours left on the grant. Report for period 2011/07/01 to

Nicholas Clark has submitted a grant proposal under our new "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_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: Dr. Nicholas Clark Contact Information: IRC: nicholas Email: nick@ccl4.org Project Title: Improving Perl 5 Synopsis: Free up one of the

This year we have six students undertaking projects for the Google Summer of Code those of you who have been following The Perl Foundations 2011 students will know that two weeks ago there was an evaluation period known as the Midterm. This period is when the students, and their mentors, submit reports on the situation so far, this includes making an analysis of the work completed and the general abilities

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the June period. Bit of a sparse month. Fixed or otherwise closed a few security-related tickets and a few other misc bits and pieces, but spent quite a bit of time on perl-related but not TPF-grant-related stuff: reducing random smoke test failures and refactoring the numeric ops. Over the last month I have averaged 4 hours per

It is my pleasure to announce that the Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund has attracted sponsorship from cPanel. cPanel approached Karen Pauley, president of The Perl Foundation, during the recent YAPC::NA conference in Asheville and announced their intent to sponsor this fund. Karen was both pleased and delighted at the generosity of cPanel who have decided to sponsor $10,000. cPanel has been developed in Perl and they have been sponsoring

It is my pleasure to announce that Booking.com approached Karen Pauley, president of The Perl Foundation, during the recent YAPC::NA conference in Asheville and announced their intent to sponsor the Core Maintenance Fund. Karen was both pleased and delighted at the generosity of Booking.com who have decided to sponsor $10,000. Booking.com have sponsored Perl events and initiatives for many years and have also been host to Perl events at their

I am pleased to announce that Patrick Michaud's Hague Grant application for a "travel grant ":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/07/hague-grant-application-travel.html to attend "YAPC::EU":http://yapceurope.lv/ye2011/ has been accepted. I would like to thank everyone who provided feedback on this proposal.

Jonathan Leto wrote: Really TLDR: The Parrot has landed. It brings me great joy to announce that I have completed all milestones for my "TPF":http://perlfoundation.org/ grant regarding the Parrot "Embed/Extend subsystems":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/11/2010q4-grant-proposal-improve.html! Not only that, but all of my grant work was included in the most recent release of Parrot, "3.5.0 "Menelaus"":http://parrot.org/news/2011/Parrot-3.5.0. The actual TLDR of this update is "many tests were written, code coverage is above "95%":http://tapir2.ro.vutbr.cz/cover/latest-c_cover/src-embed-api-c.html "for all":http://tapir2.ro.vutbr.cz/cover/latest-c_cover/src-extend-c.html "systems

We have received a request from Patrick Michaud asking for a travel grant to enable his attendance at "YAPC::EU":http://yapceurope.lv/ye2011/ which is taking place in Riga during August. As well as attending and "speaking":http://yapceurope.lv/ye2011/talk/3520 at the conference this would give Patrick the opportunity to participate in an all-day "Perl 6 hackathon":http://yapceurope.lv/ye2011/talk/3388 scheduled for the Saturday before the conference. Patrick is the lead architect, developer, and project manager for what is now

This week during "YAPC::NA":http://www.yapc2011.us/yn2011/ we announced the launch of a new fundraising drive to raise money for the "maintenance and improvement":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund of the Perl 5 core. I am delighted to announce that "Vienna.pm":http://vienna.pm.org/ have offered to kick-start this fund by offering matched funding for the first $10,000 of sponsorship that is raised. The Perl Foundation would like to thank Vienna.pm for their generous contribution.

Dear community, informing that after TPF Grants Committee vote on "Port pmtools to Perl 6":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/06/2011q2-grant-proposal-port-pmt.html grant proposal, it was not selected for funding. Next round for grants proposals will start in two weeks.

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the May period. I spent the month working on two bugs: making sv_clear non-recursive when freeing HVs 58:35 Total Numbers of tickets closed: bq. 2 tickets closed that have been worked on 1 tickets closed related to bugs that have been fixed 0 tickets closed that were reviewed but not worked on 3 Total Short Detail

This quarter, The Perl Foundation Grant Committee received one proposal for grant funding. The proposal is presented bellow, and it is open for discussion. Port pmtools to Perl 6 Name: Mark Leighton Fisher Amount Requested: $1200.00 Synopsis pmtools, the Perl module tools, are used by Perl 5 programmers every day to find, use, modify, and fix Perl modules. With over 90 modules already available for Perl 6, it is time

Jonathan Leto wrote: I am excited to announce that I have completed my next grant milestone! I recently increased test coverage of extend_vtable.c to over 95% achieving the milestone with a half percent buffer. It definitely wasn't easy, but I changed the way I was approaching writing tests and it resulted in a "huge burst of productivity":https://github.com/parrot/parrot/compare/5dd8c543ab...8c04cc3e66. I went through a test coverage report and wrote down, on an actual

The Perl Foundation is excited to announce that we have two bids in for Perl Mongers groups to host YAPC::NA 2012. This year's bidders are the "MadMongers at Madison.pm":http://madmongers.org/ and the combined "Houston.pm":http://houston.pm.org/ and Austin.pm groups. The conference committee will be busy reviewing these bids over the next few weeks and the winner will be announced at "YAPC::NA 2011 in Asheville, NC":http://www.yapc2011.us/yn2011/. You can check out the bids to get

Jonathan Worthington writes: This is a report on the progress that I have made with my current Hague Grant, "Meta-model Improvements and Natively Typed Attributes":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/07/hague-grant-application-meta-m.html. My previous Hague Grants and much of the work on Rakudo up until the Rakudo Star release have had a focus on implementing Perl 6 language features, gradually building towards a compiler with more and more coverage of the language. Since the Rakudo Star release,

A new version of Perl, 5.14, was officially released on 14th May following the successful test period, including the testing of release candidates. This is the first release of Perl 5 using the new annual schedule. There are a number of enhancements and alterations in this version, a full list of changes can be found at

I would like to congratulate the six students who were accepted to work with The Perl Foundation for this year's Google Summer of Code. The successful students and projects are: "André Walker Rework Catalyst component setup code":http://perl.andrewalker.net/proposal-rework-catalyst-component-setup-code/ Mentored by Tomas Doran and Eden Cardim "Brian Neil Fraser Making the Perl Core UTF-8 clean":http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/hugmeir/1 Mentored by Florian Ragwitz and Zefram "Carlos Ivan Sosa Removing the upgrading necessity of the Dancer script

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the April period. Again, I concentrated on bugs that were 5.14 blockers, and also spent a fair amount of time working to reduce smoke failures, which isn't being charged to the grant, as that work wasn't done against RT tickets. Over the last month I have averaged 8 hours per week. As of 2011/04/30: since the beginning

I am pleased to announce that Mark Keating is joining TPF as the chair of the marketing committee. Mark is well known in the Perl community for his work with the Enlightened Perl Organisation, NorthWestEngland.pm, and the London Perl Workshop. His interest and enthusiasm in promoting Perl can clearly be seen through his blogging and the numerous projects he has worked on in the past couple of years. I am

Jonathan Leto wrote: I am still on the path of increasing "test coverage in src/extend_vtable.c":https://github.com/parrot/parrot/blob/master/t/src/extend_vtable.t. It is much like a zen study, where you methodically concentrate on many tiny little pebbles, one at a time, moving them in the sand, to just the right place. According to the latest code coverage statistics, we are now at "72% code coverage":http://tapir2.ro.vutbr.cz/cover/latest-c_cover/src-extend_vtable-c.html, which is an increase of about 8% since my last report.

The 5th Annual Pittsburgh Perl Workshop will be held at the Carnegie Mellon University's Gates Hillman Complex on October 8 and 9, 2011. The call for presentations is now open and closes on Wednesday, May 18th. Please view The PPW announcement for more information.

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the March period. I concentrated on bugs that were 5.14 blockers, and also spent a fair amount of time working to reduce smoke failures, which isn't being charged to the grant, as that work wasn't done against RT tickets. Over the last month I have averaged 5 hours per week. As of 2011/03/31: since the beginning of

Its that time of the year, again. The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $2000 in May 2011. In the past, we've supported Adam Kennedy's PPI, Strawberry Perl and Perl on a Stick, Nicholas Clark's work on Perl internals, Jouke Visser's pVoice, Chris Dolan on Perl::Critic and many others You don't have to have a large, complex, or lengthy project. You don't even have

Jonathan Leto wrote: This wayward son is still on his treacherous journey to increase "test coverage in src/extend_vtable.c":https://github.com/parrot/parrot/blob/master/t/src/extend_vtable.t. When we last left off our traveler, he explained what the mythical VTABLE beast looked like, and we shall continue with the study of this chimerical fauna. According to the latest code coverage statistics, we are now at "64% code coverage":http://tapir2.ro.vutbr.cz/cover/latest-c_cover/src-extend_vtable-c.html, which is an increase of about 10% since my last report.

I am pleased to announce that Moritz Lenz's Hague Grant for "Structured Error Messages":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/02/hague-grant-application-struct.html has been accepted. Will Coleda has agreed to be the grant manager for this project. We received a lot of positive feedback regarding this grant and we are delighted that we are able to fund this work. If you would like to help fund grants like this or any of our other projects please visit "https://donate.perlfoundation.org":https://donate.perlfoundation.org/.

Countdown... We are into the final week for students to sign up to the Google Summer of Code. The program is accepting submissions from students and mentors until Friday 8th April so now is the time to get involved before it is too late and you suffer from last regrets. What can I do? Students can suggest any topic to work on, but for those wishing to try something new,

The organizers of "YAPC::EU 2011":http://yapceurope.lv/ye2011/ recently announced that they are "accepting proposals for talks":http://yapceurope.lv/ye2011/news/686 at YAPC::EU 2011. They are also looking for teachers and sponsors. "Click through":http://yapceurope.lv/ye2011/news/686 to read all of the details.

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the February period. Spent most of the month fixing many taint issues associated with s///, which I discovered as a side-effect of looking into the \p{$tainted} issue. Over the last month I have averaged 13 hours per week. Over the 50 weeks of the grant I have done 639 hours, averaging 12.8 hours per week. There are

The "YAPC::NA 2011 Call For Speakers":http://www.yapc2011.us/yn2011/call_for_speakers.html will come to a close at 23:59 EST on March 24th 2011. Some talks have already been accepted if you want to "take a look":http://www.yapc2011.us/yn2011/schedule.

"YAPC::NA 2011 in Asheville, NC":http://www.yapc2011.us/yn2011/ is still four months away, but that doesn't mean that we can't start planning for 2012. The call for venue is officially open! The TPF Conference Committee will be accepting bids today through May 15th 2011. What is YAPC::NA? YAPC::NA is an annual Perl-focused conference held at various locations throughout North America. The conference is a grassroots symposia on the Perl programming language promoted by

Jonathan Leto wrote: The quest to improve test coverage for src/extend_vtable.c has continued. Some dragons were slayed, a few trolls were paid tolls to cross creaky bridges of abstraction and many siren calls to hack on other code were dutifully ignored This "TPF":http://perlfoundation.org/ grant has forced me to become very familiar with Parrot vtables which is basically an API for talking to Parrot "PMCs":https://github.com/parrot/parrot/blob/master/docs/pdds/pdd17_pmc.pod PMC can stand for Parrot Magic

We have received the following Hague Grant application from Moritz Lenz. Before the Board votes on this proposal we would like to have a period of community consultation. Please leave feedback in the comments or if you prefer send email with your comments to karen at perlfoundation.org. Name Moritz Lenz Project Title Structured Error Messages: Design and Implementation Synopsis A system for error messages will be designed, and implemented in

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the January period. Tinkered a bit more with overloading and tieing, and worked on the security issues associated with user-defined \p{} properties. Over the last month I have averaged 10 hours per week. Over the 47 weeks of the grant I have done 585 hours, averaging 12.4 hours per week. There are 315 hours left on the

Dear Perl Community, First of all, I would like to say sorry for the late warning. But I forgot to post here the news. As you all know, The Perl Foundation does not have any regular money income, other than donations. Although we have some relevant donations in the last years, the budget that the board assigned to the Grants Committee for this year does not make it possible to

In November, I wrote a progress report about work beginning on the Perl 6 Tablets grant. These tablets aim to offer both an in-depth tutorial and reference for Perl 6 Herbert Breunung, the tablets' author, has done considerable work since then on the overall structure of this documentation as well as describing particular details of the Perl 6 language. The tablets have reached a stage where we welcome feedback from

Jonathan Leto wrote: I have slowly but surely been increasing test coverage of src/extend_vtable.c, which when I started my grant was at 5% and is now sitting at 43%. I estimated that it would take about two weeks to get it to 50% and then another two weeks to get to 95%, but this was a bit optimistic. When I look back, giving myself a month for each would have

Kartik Thakore reported: Cleaner Code and a lot of memory and performance improvements 10 out of 11 chapters completed: The profiling chapter was dropped as there was not enough content to justify a chapter. 3 Extra chapters added. Deviation from a CPAN SDL::Manual release. Due to the nature of the Manual it is being released as a creative commons book instead https://github.com/PerlGameDev/SDL_Manual/blob/master/dist/SDL_Manual.pdf Next Steps: Get the book polished

Kartik Thakore reported: Added content for several chapters: Tetris Chapter: Cleaned up the code Started work on chapter Music and Sound Chapter: Added code and sound data files Finished Chapter Code Profiling Chapter Start work XS Effects Chapter: Explain Inline::C usage with SDL First draft completed Additional Chapter to get art content SDL Supports Inline::XS Preliminary

TPF has an open grant with Michael Schwern on Test::Builder 2 development. Today Schwern released the design principles on Test::Builder 2, and should release a second alpha version very soon.

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the December period. Tinkered a bit more with overloading and tieing. Over the last month I have averaged 5 hours per week, mainly due to Christmas. Over the 43 weeks of the grant so far, I have done 548 hours, averaging 12.7 hours per week. There are 352 hours left on the grant. Report for period 2010/12/01

The "call for talks":http://www.frozen-perl.org/mpw2011/newtalk for "Frozen Perl":http://www.frozen-perl.org/ is just wrapping up but there is still a little time to get a late submission in if you hurry. "Frozen Perl":http://www.frozen-perl.org/ is a three day event held at the University of Minnesota's McNamara Alumni Center in Minneapolis, MN. The main event is a one-day, two-track workshop on Saturday, February 5th. There will be two Perl classes on Friday, February 4th. "Effective Perl

Below is an overview of the programs that were financially supported by The Perl Foundation in 2010. Programs are roughly broken up into 3 categories: Events, Marketing, and Development. Perl events The Perl Foundation supported four conferences in 2010. Those conferences were: The North American Yet Another Perl Conference Frozen Perl, The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop, and The Perl Oasis. Each event is expected to be self-sustaining through program fees and

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the November period. Nearly all the month was spent on one bug, which was to make PerlIO minimally re-entrant bq. 0:00 diagnosing bugs 46:40 fixing bugs 7:45 reviewing other people's bug fixes 0:00 reviewing ticket histories 0:00 review the ticket queue 54:25 Total Numbers of tickets closed: bq. 2 tickets closed that have been worked on 0

Jonathan Leto wrote: My work on a "TPF":http://perlfoundation.org/ grant to "improve documentation and test coverage of the Parrot Embedd API":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/11/2010q4-grant-proposal-improve.html is going well. I have added extensive examples of Parrot function and type signatures, as well beginning to increase test coverage of this subsystem. I am working in the "leto/embed_grant":https://github.com/parrot/parrot/commits/leto%2Fembed_grant branch on "Github":http://github.com/, which has already been merged to master just before the release of Parrot 2.11.0. My first merge

I am pleased to announce that Dave Mitchell's "grant":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/02/grant-proposal-fixing-perl5-co.html has been extended by another $20,000. I would like to thank Dave for his great work so far. I would also like to thank his grant managers Jesse Vincent and Marcus Holland-Moritz, and "Booking.com":http://www.booking.com/, whose generous contribution to TPF has allowed us to fund this grant. To date this grant has allowed Dave to spend around 520 hours working on and

Sebastian Riedel sent his final grant report: I'm happy to report that after some health related delays the Mojolicious documentation grant has finally been finished. Every single module in the project has gotten reference documentation, a quick start tutorial and multiple very substantial guides have been written. All improvements already got merged into the core distribution and are available on CPAN and/or GitHub. Reference documentation: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Mojolicious Tutorial: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Mojolicious/lib/Mojolicious/Lite.pm

José and Bruno wrote: Our proposal listed as deliverables documentation detailing: Installation CookBook: Using Perlbal as a reverse proxy Using Perlbal as a load balancer Using Perlbal as a web server Managing and configuring Perlbal on-the-fly Writing Plugins Perlbal's Architecture at a glance We have documented: Installation Configuring Perlbal as a Reverse Proxy Configuring Perlbal as a Web Server Configuring Perlbal as a Load Balancer Configuring Perlbal as a Selector

Kartik Thakore reported: SDLx-Widget 0.07 released Allows Textbox and Menu abstractions SDL 2.524 releases Fix more memory problems

"Perl Oasis":http://www.perloasis.info, the annual Perl workshop in sunny Orlando, Florida has announced its call for papers. Submissions are due by December 17th. Visit "http://www.perloasis.info":http://www.perloasis.info for more information.

Kieren Diment has published his final report for the 2008Q4 Perl Survey grant. His report includes links to the survey findings and a Leximancer report

José and Bruno write: During this month we have documented: Perlbal's management plugins system hooks As we're nearing the completion of the grant we are actively revising everything we wrote so far and we're also delving deeper into the code in search of aspects of Perlbal that should definitely be documented but that we did not originally accounted for These go from the high priority queuing system to debugging issues,

This quarter TPF Grants Committee received two proposals for grants. They were posted for discussion on this blog, and were voted in the last week. The results are: TPF will sponsor the grant "Improve Parrot Embed/Extend Subsystem":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/11/2010q4-grant-proposal-improve.html by Jonathan "Duke" Leto. Unfortunately, the Grants Committee voted the grant "AnyEvent::HTTPBenchmark":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/11/2010q4-grant-proposal-anyevent.html by Naim Shafiev for rejection.

Kartik Thakore reported: SDL 2.523 released: Adds stability and better memory management for the game loop Two chapters have been completed Pong chapter Additional modules One extra chapter has been added Puzz chapter 2 Chapters are in the Works Tetris code has mostly been done Needs to be fixed Needs write up Sound and music effects code has been done Needs

Jonathan Leto writes: I'm excited to announce that "Parrot Foundation":http://parrot.org/ and "The Perl Foundation":http://perlfoundation.org/ have been accepted as "organizations in Google Code-In 2010":http://socghop.appspot.com/gci/org/show/google/gci2010/parrot_perl_foundations! "Google Code-In":http://socghop.appspot.com/gci/program/home/google/gci2010 is a contest, similar to "Google Summer of Code":http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/program/home/google/gsoc2010, where Google pays students aged 13-18 to do tasks designed by open source communities, while learning about open source. Google pays for the work to be done, and we get new members to our communities, while

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the October period. Mostly worked on leak/refcount/malloc bugs this month. Over the first 34 weeks I have now averaged about 14 hours per week, less than the nominal 20. I have used up approx 93% of the hours allocated to the grant. Report for period 2010/10/01 to 2010/10/31 inclusive Summary Effort bq. 13:55 diagnosing bugs 37:38 fixing

In August 2010, The Perl Foundation awarded Herbert Breunung a grant to work on the Perl 6 tablets a tutorial and reference for Perl 6. You can view Herbert's progress at any time from the Perl 6 Tablets section of the Perl 6 Wiki. Herbert's work has started slowly, but he has completed the tablet number two and plans to work on tablets one and three in parallel over the

Leon Timmermans finished his grant and shared with us the report below. What has been achieved The Good At the start of this grant I set myself 6 goals. 5 of them have been achieved Document the API Add unit tests Port to 5.10 Add regexp support Improve support for exporting functions, methods and variables. At popular request, I did implement another mojor feature that

Name: Naim Shafiev Email: Amount Requested: 500 Synopsis The apache benchmark siege, jmeter and etc, are sometimes awesome to make http-load testing. But if you want make some non-traditional test they are not good decision.This module try to help you in this case. This project containts the utility and library to build own Benefits to the Perl Community This project gives the capability to make own flexible web-benchmarking tools benchmarking

Name: Jonathan "Duke" Leto. Email: Amount Requested: $1500 Synopsis Currently the Parrot Embedding subsystem is under-tested and under-documented. This grant proposes to add documentation for all public Embed/Extend API functions, write tests to increase the code coverage statistics for the Embed/Extend API to at least 95%, and update the Parrot Developer Docs where errors or omissions are found. Any bugs found on the way that cannot be easily fixed will

This quarter TPF Grants Committee received two proposals for grants. They are: "AnyEvent::HTTPBenchmark":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/11/2010q4-grant-proposal-anyevent.html Naim Shafiev "Improve Parrot Embed/Extend Subsystem":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/11/2010q4-grant-proposal-improve.html Jonathan "Duke" Leto Please take the time to read them carefully and comment. TPF GC is interested in the community feedback about these grants. Just try to be polite.

José and Bruno write: We have concluded the documentation on: installation procedures load balancing reverse proxy web server We have also listed several features we didn't contemplate originally but that we feel must be documented too, so we're going through them as well. We're one week late but since we accounted for a two weeks delay on the proposal, we're still good. The target date remains at December 6th. We

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the September period. Mostly worked on leak bugs this month. Over the first 30 weeks I have now averaged about 14 hours per week, less than the nominal 20. I have used up approx 84% of the hours allocated to the grant. Report for period 2010/09/01 to 2010/09/30 inclusive Summary Effort bq. 14:59 diagnosing bugs 27:30 fixing

Kartik Thakore reported: Since last time: We have released SDL 2.518 Game Loop support completed Chapters: 2nd Drafts for: Preface to Game Loop Chapters completed: 5/11 45% Extra: cfedde has made a script to extract code listings for readers to try examples with out having to retype them. Coments: I am receiving a lot more help from the community, most notable from cfedde for proofreading. I will be

Its that time of the year, again. The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $3000 in November 2010. In the past, we've supported Adam Kennedy's PPI, Strawberry Perl and Perl on a Stick, Nicholas Clark's work on Perl internals, Jouke Visser's pVoice, Chris Dolan on Perl::Critic and many others You don't have to have a large, complex, or lengthy project. You don't even have

Leon just sent me another update on his grant: _bq. Most importantly, I'm finally able to build a dll on Windows, this is an important milestone. The dll still has some issues that prevent it from working correctly though, and it will probably require patches to some ExtUtils:: modules to resolve that. I also improved the documentation Lastly I've been resolving a number of bug reports that I've received lately,

Kartik Thakore reported: 1st drafts Preface Chapter 2: First SDL Application Started work on Chapter 3: Drawing Outlines for the first 7 chapters have been completed Book build framework has been setup Released SDL 2.514 This code is the one that will be used in the book for chapter 02 Got more of the Drawing chapter done Added several more code examples for other chapters Progress: 2.75

Jesse Vincent writes: It gives me great pleasure to announce Perl 5.12.2, the third stable release of Perl 5.12. Shortly, you will be able to download Perl 5.12.2 from your favorite CPAN mirror or from: "http://search.cpan.org/~jesse/perl-5.12.2/":http://search.cpan.org/~jesse/perl-5.12.2/ SHA1 digests for this release are: 75dbbdfa5bf8d4fc813503253e2b58486fa5a4eb perl-5.12.2.tar.bz2 c157f214a93ce20fc06dc9d9c902c05ad1327cb1 perl-5.12.2.tar.gz This release contains minor bug fixes and updates of several core modules, as well as minor documentation updates. It should be fully backward compatible

Michael Schwern is working on Test::Builder 2 and posted some updates on the project. Go read them before use.perl starts the process of moving servers. Test::Builder2 at 10k Feet Finally, some Test::Builder2 examples!

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the August period. I was mostly busy with other stuff this month, so didn't get to put in many hours on the grant. Over the first 25 weeks I have now averaged about 15 hours per week, less than the nominal 20. I have used up approx 73% of the hours allocated to the grant. Report for

Leon just sent an update on his grant: Past month I've been to YAPC::EU where I spoke about part of my project. I also used it to discuss some of the Windows related issues I ran into with others and they have helped me getting clear what's the problem. I haven't quite fixed it yet though. I also worked on refactoring and expanding the documentation, and fixed some bugreports I

I am pleased to announce that Jonathan Worthington's Hague Grant for "Meta-model Improvements and Natively Typed Attributes":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/07/hague-grant-application-meta-m.html has been accepted. Patrick Michaud has agreed to be the grant manager for this project. I would like to thank everyone who provided feedback on this proposal.

The Perl Foundation has a new mailing address! We are working to get contact information on all of our sites updated. Please update your records: Yet Another Society d/b/a The Perl Foundation 340 S LEMON AVE #6055 WALNUT, CA 91789 UNITED STATES