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  • Test2 Manual Completion Report Tue, 24-Apr-2018 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Follows the report by Chad Granum for his grant: Test2 Manual. Test2 Manual grant complete This is a completion report for the Test2 manual grant. Deliverables Test2::Manual Original description: A brief introduction and table of contents. Completed form: Jumping off point with a map of the manual layout/table of contents. Test2::Manual::Tooling Original description: This section will cover writing test tools. This would be a

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  • Test2 Documentation Grant Progress Report Wed, 22-Nov-2017 by Alberto Simões

    During the last month, Chad Granum did some notable progress on the grant. As Chad points out: I got it to the point where I felt comfortable publishing it to cpan, despite being incomplete: https://metacpan.org/pod/Test2::Manual that includes: Spell check test, to correct my typos Added Anatomy section to describe Test2 guts Added Anatomy for Events and Facets Finished the Tooling/FirstTool document Added the Tooling/Nesting document

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  • Grant Update: Test2 Manual by Chad Granum Wed, 25-Oct-2017 by Alberto Simões

    Chad has been working on his Test2 manual. The fact that he is, also, maintaining Test2 modules, and implementing or refactoring some portions of these modules make the documentation process harder, as it need the changes done before documenting them. Nevertheless, in the last month, Chad has been updating the documentation given outdated information, and added some new sections. He also added a lot of new section titles referring subjects

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  • Test2 Documentation Grant Progress Report Wed, 13-Sep-2017 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    In the last two months Chad has been working mostly on the Test2 code than in the documentation itself. This way he can document the final version of the API and do not need to, later, rewrite the docs. This work included the new event system. Chad released the stable version of Test2 two days ago, and therefore he is now resuming his work on the documentation.

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  • Test2 Documentation Grant Progress Report Thu, 06-Jul-2017 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    In the The Perl Conference month, Chad reports some improvements in the documentation, that is available at http://test-more.github.io/Test2-Manual/, with some new sections. He also used this manual to give two presentations at YAPC.

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  • Test2 Documentation Grant Progress Report Wed, 03-May-2017 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

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

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  • Grant Report: Test2 Manual Sun, 08-Jan-2017 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

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

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  • Grant Report: Test2 Manual Sun, 13-Nov-2016 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

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

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  • Grant Report: Test2 Manual Sun, 09-Oct-2016 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

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

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  • Test2 Manual Grant report Tue, 02-Aug-2016 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

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

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  • Test2 Manual Grant report Thu, 30-Jun-2016 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

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

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  • Test-Simple + Test-Stream (now Test2) grant complete Sat, 14-May-2016 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

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

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  • Grant Report: Test::Simple/Stream Stabilization Fri, 29-Jan-2016 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

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

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  • Grant Report: Test::Simple/Stream Stabilization Tue, 29-Dec-2015 by Alberto Simões

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

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  • 2013Q3 Grant Proposals Sat, 17-Aug-2013 by Alberto Simões

    For this quarter the Grants Committee just received one proposal, by Peter Rabbitson, for "Advanced environment for CI of Perl projects". Unfortunately the Grants Committee could not accept this proposal as it requests more than the limit of $3000 stated on the Grants Committee Rules. Nevertheless, this lack of "lower than $3000" grant proposals, and the fact that lot of people have been discussing about this value being too low,

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  • 2013Q3 Call for Grant Proposals Mon, 01-Jul-2013 by Alberto Simões

    As you might have noticed, TPF has been granting money for some big tasks, like funding Nicholas Clark or Dave Mitchel's work on Perl 5. Nevertheless, TPF has a Grants Committee with its own budget, to give grants for smaller projects, ranging from $500 to $3000. With this amount we do not expect to fund full-time work, but instead, use it as an incentive to complete some specific task. Therefore,

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  • 2013Q2 Grant Results Tue, 28-May-2013 by Alberto Simões

    It took some time to get the grant results. In fact, grantees are aware of the status of their grants for about a week, but we were dealing with some internal details before posting the results. In this round the Grant Committee did not vote for rejection of any grant. That is good, but the committee does not have funds to accept all grants at once. This lead to a

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  • 2013Q2 Grant Proposals Sat, 04-May-2013 by Alberto Simões

    For this quarter, TPF Grants Committee have four different proposals. Who invite the Perl Community to comment on the proposals and their relevance to the community. Please comment on each grant on their specific page. "YACT Yet Another Conference Tool":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2013/05/2013q2-gp-yact---yet-another-c.html by Torsten Raudssus _ "rpm.perl.it":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2013/05/2013q2-gp-rpmperlit.html by _Jozef Kutej "Review of Perl Web Frameworks":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2013/05/2013q2-gp-review-of-perl-web-f.html by Neil Bowers "Next Release of Pinto With Key Features":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2013/05/2013q2-gp-next-release-of-pint.html by Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer

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  • 2013Q2 GP: YACT - Yet Another Conference Tool Sat, 04-May-2013 by Alberto Simões

    Name: Torsten Raudssus Amount Requested: $3000 Synopsis The current Act software and their instances are an often discussed topic in the world of Perl. The migrating of those instances, and the move forward to more modern Perl solutions in the system are often discussed. Last year we were able to address and start a concept at the Quack and Hack Europe 2012, we called it YACT Yet Another Conference Toolkit,

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  • 2013Q2 GP: rpm.perl.it Sat, 04-May-2013 by Alberto Simões

    Name: Jozef Kutej Amount Requested: 2000 Synopsis Create similar page to http://deb.perl.it/ for RPM world. Benefits to the Perl Community For many sysadmins it's pretty common task to look for and install Perl distribution from Linux OS packages and only the rest via some CPAN shell. It would save them a lot of time if they can get this install instruction instantly via a web service. Deliverables http://rpm.perl.it/ RPM-PM distribution

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