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We are pleased to announce that Daisuke Maki has joined the Grants Committee. Daisuke was involved in the world's largest YAPC, YAPC::Asia Tokyo, since its inception in 2006, and has been the main organizer since 2009. He was also the main person behind creating and incorporating the Japan Perl Association. He received the White Camel Award in 2011. We regret to announce that Renée Bäcker, one of the Grant Managers ... read more |
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Joel Berger wrote: Alien::Base Final Report Summary With this report I end my grant for Alien::Base. I consider it to be a reasonable success and have hope that the project will continue further. It became, as perhaps I should have expected, a larger project than anticipated; the problems were rarely the anticipated ones. In the end Alien::Base faced two major problems: compile-time linking of the library and the localization of ... read more |
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From the grant manager: This project is in a phase where a bit of help from the community is required. Get in touch with Joel if you are able to help him with his problem. Joel Berger wrote: After a busy Christmas season and being engrossed in my upcoming thesis defense I have found it hard to find too much time to focus on Perl projects. Still Alien::Base has been ... read more |
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Joel Berger wrote: This month featured lots of work in the latter parts of Alien::Base. These improve library detection logic, pkg-config functionality and packlist support. I was especially pleased to get a bug report filed by bpo regular Toby Inkster. He is writing a provisional Alien::LibXML based on Alien::Base. He noticed some odd behaviors that we are still trying to work out. This feedback led to more improvements than just ... read more |
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Joel Berger wrote: This month has been a good one for Alien::Base, and I'm happy to report that I believe that the grant is winding up. We saw a beta release and had a project night during which we hacked on a few issues, but also I was keenly observing people assessment of usability, which I consider key to the success of the project. I think I have only a ... read more |