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It isn't often enough that I get to speak about the way that the Perl Foundation spends the money that is so generously donated to it. Often they are the subjects of the annual reports from Karen and Dan and are presented at the yearly Yet Another Perl Conferences. Most of these funds are used as part of our excellent programmes to improve Perl via direct sponsorship of people such ... read more |
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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 ... read more |
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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 ... read more |
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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 ... read more |
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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 ... read more |