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

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

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 Nevertheless, in the last month, Chad has been updating the documentation given outdated information, and added some new sections.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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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,

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,

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

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

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,

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

Name: Neil Bowers Amount Requested: $1500 Synopsis A review of the main modern web frameworks for Perl, somewhat in the style of the other reviews I've done: http://neilb.org/reviews/ Benefits to the Perl Community A comparison of the main web frameworks, with the same sample application available for all of them in github. This will help people make informed decisions, and hopefully encourage more people to "have a go" at web

Name: Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer Amount Requested: $3000.00 Synopsis Pinto is a turnkey solution for constructing and managing local CPAN-like repositories of Perl modules. This purpose of this grant proposal is to obtain funding for development of the next release of Pinto, which will include specific features described below. The Pinto project is less than 2 years old, but it has already gained a modest user base and is potentially relevant

As you might have noticed, TPF has been grating money for some big tasks, like funding Nicholas Clark or Dave Mitchel 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,

As chair of the Grants Committee I am sorry to inform that this committee did not receive any grant proposal to be funded in this quarter. This is the second, consecutive, quarter without grant proposals.

The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $2000 in March 2013. 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

This quarter the TPF Grants Committee didn't receive any proposal for grant funding. In the next quarter we'll be receiving grant proposals again.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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,

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!

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

The Perl Foundation Grants Committee is happy to inform on the results of the 2010Q3 round for grant assignments. After the public discussion on The Perl Foundation blog, and after the Grants Committee discussion and vote, the proposals were ranked as: Manual for Game Development with SDL Perl by Kartik Thakore Perlbal documentation by José Castro and Bruno Martins Perl 6 Tablets by Herbert Breunung Improve Parrot Embed/Extend Subsystem Tests

Dear Perl Community, The grants committee got back to the usual request for grant proposals. This quarter we have nine interesting proposals. Unfortunately we will not be able to fund them all. Therefore, we would love to read your comments on the grant proposals, so that we would be aware of how the community is interested in these grant deliverables. Please, be respectful on your comments. Perl 6 Tablets by

Perl 6 book in russian Name: Naim Shafiev, Zahatski Aliaksandr Email: Amount Requested: 2000 Synopsis Perl6 has reached development stage when on it is possible to program. The release of the version "Rakudo Star" for developers confirms it. At the given stage of development of language, it is important that the information on it was as it is possible is accessible to programmers, and also that who is interested in

YAC Name: Ricardo Filipo Email: Amount Requested: US$ 3.000 Synopsis A realy killer CMS. So simple! So usefull! use YAC; my $web new YAC; $web-> run go to web! Benefits to the Perl Community A CMS can be a web tool used in some internet business to help and administer media publication. As a market lider let's consider Drupal a php based CMS, reference product used by everywere, a key

Improve Parrot Embed/Extend Subsystem Tests and Documentation 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

CPAN to deb autopackaging Name: Jozef Kutej Email: Amount Requested: $3000 Synopsis The aim of the project would be to create automatic CPAN distribution to Debian deb packaging system. Then use it to autopackage and backport at least 50% of the CPAN distributions resulting in a Debian repository with multiple thousand Perl related packages. Benefits to the Perl Community Debian+Ubuntu operating systems are very popular among Perl developers. According to

Perlbal documentation Name: José Castro Bruno Martins Email: Amount Requested: USD 2.500 Synopsis Perlbal! "It processes hundreds of millions of requests a day just for LiveJournal, Vox and TypePad and dozens of other "Web 2.0" applications." It works great as a load balancer, wonderfully as a reverse proxy, marvellously as a web server. If you know how to use it. Perlbal lacks the documentation for even the simplest of tasks.

Manual for Game Development with SDL Perl Name: Kartik Thakore Email: Amount Requested: $1500 Synopsis This project will improve the Game Development tutorials for Perl using the SDL library. The primary goal is to introduce newcomers to Game Development in Perl. The secondary goal is to attract people to try Perl as a Game Scripting and Prototyping language. 2>The Background of SDL Perl SDL stands for Simple DirectMedia Library, and

Grant Proposal for SF.pm Funding Name: Fred Moyer Email: Amount Requested: $2,500 Synopsis #!/usr/bin/sf/perl use strict; use warnings; use PM; use App::PM::Announce; use DateTime; use LWP; my $group PM->new foreach my $month qw my $date DateTime->new my @speakers qw my @dinners qw my @drinks qw my $count int ->content m/ \sPerl\sMongers/s my $meeting $group->meeting->new food $dinners attendee_count $count,

FRDCSA Initial Release Name: Andrew John Dougherty Email: Amount Requested: $2250 $750 is how much is needed to release it, but a full computation of its value is not known to me although the OFCS system designed by Teddy Goldenberg and soon-to-be implemented by the system-implementor codebase would be able to make a more informed estimate. Synopsis The FRDCSA consists of, among other things, over 1700 Perl5 modules in various

Perl 6 Tablets Name: Herbert Breunung Email: Amount Requested: $840 Synopsis A thematically sorted Perl 6 compendium/lexicon, readable like a in depth tutorial, but optimized for finding missing bits of information. Appendices give several angles to search content. Benefits to Perl 6 Development Easy accessible perl6docs help people who write software and tests in perl 6, for newcomer its easier to spark interest and entry the dev team and it

Leon Timmermans sent an update report on his work, that I transcribe bellow. bq. I've been working on porting it to Windows. After a number of bugfixes it compiled, but ExtUtils::CBuilder has linking issues with C++ on Windows that I don't quite grok yet. I've also added a dist target to my Build so now I can actually easily publish it to CPAN; I was planning to do that as

The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $3000 in August 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 to be a Perl master or guru.

Leon sent me some updates on his grant: bq. _I've been less productive than previous period this time, mainly due to school obligations. I've improved the Build system and the file layout. I've added some tests for regular expressions, which uncovered a number of bugs that seem to be fixed by now. Unless I uncover more bugs the regexps are finished. I've also done some testing on windows, with limited

Michael Schwern is working on Test::Builder 2 for about two years. But we found him on YAPC and asked for a report on the project status. He answered to our request and wrote "this report":http://use.perl.org/~schwern/journal/40421.

Curtis Jewell finished his work on the Corporate, Embedded and Muti-user Strawberry Perl. You can read a detailed report on his blog

Although grant managers should report regularly on grantees progress, given some extra work on TPF Grants Committee regarding the new operation rules, I would like to make a small report on which grants are TPF currently funding and what is their status. This list starts from oldest to newest: Test::Builder 2 by Michael Schwern Schwern does not give feedback for a long time. Please push him personally. Thanks. The Perl

As well as the approval of the new Grant Committee rules and our attempt to close long running grants, we are also refreshing the Grant Managers. Two of the current grant managers, Adrian Horward and Jeff Adams are stepping down. I would like to thank both of them for their fantastic work, and give special thanks to Adrian who offered to help new grantees during their first weeks of work.

Unfortunately Sebastian Riedel had some health problems during this year and that affected, as expected, everything on his life. Nevertheless, he intends to finish his work with TPF and expects to get results during next June. So, expect news soon.

Curtis sent us some new updates on his grant. Details follow: There were two issues still not complete on my last report: 1. Can be installed to any drive This has finally been completed, and the 5.12.0 versions of Strawberry Perl April 2010 Beta 2 will have this code. The actual restriction on usable directories is that the path installed into cannot have spaces

TPF is proud to announce the completion of Gerard Goossen grant. As Gerard sent a big report, please check the complete report on the extended new page. I would like to thank you both Gerard for completing the grant, and Jeff Horwitz for managing it. Below are my results of the "Changing the Perl 5 optree build process into a Abstract Syntax Tree generation and a code generation step" grant.

The Perl Foundation Grants Committee is searching for Grant Managers GM are volunteers that help the interaction between TPF Grantees and TPF GC. GM are assigned to a set of grantees, and GM are responsible for poking Grantees from time to time asking for progress reports, and publishing them on this blog. They are also responsible for dispatch Grantees payments together with TPF Treasurer. If you might be interested in

Leon Timmermans writes: As you may have noticed I've been out of the running for some time but I'm back at the project now for a few weeks and things seem to be going pretty ok. Here's an overview of where I'm currently standing. Documentation: Right now this is where I think most work remains. I've been working on it recently, and will continue doing that in the next couple

While TPF grant program has as its main goal the motivation of Perl users to perform new and challenging projects for the Perl Community, sometimes it fails. Fortunately it doesn't happen with all grantees and all the time. This time I am closing two grants from Vadim Konovalov: Tcl/Tk Access in Rakudo and Perl Cross-Compilation for WinCE and Linux We, at TPF, know that Vadim did some work on both

Curtis Jewell just sent TPF an update on his grant: The 5 main points of my grant, as far as releasing an improved Strawberry Perl, were: "Is compiled as a "merge module" file that can be included in other .msi files, as well as an independent .msi file." This was done as of the January 2010 release of Strawberry Perl, although I'm not publicizing it heavily until the April

This was the oldest grant running. Ingy dot net was working intermittently on it presenting some of the results that were promised in the proposal but not them all. TPF and Ingy agreed to close the grant with a half payment for the work done. Ingy wrote a report on the work done. It can be read at https://www.socialtext.net/yaml/index.cgi?requiem_for_a_grant

For this quarter TPF had 7 grant proposals, from which 5 were voted for rejection, one for acceptance, and the final one will be kept for new evaluation in the next round. The five rejected grants are: "Creating a ctypes-Like Interface for Perl to External Subroutines":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/08/2009q3_grant_proposal_creating.html by Shlomi Fish "Enhancing CPANHQ":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/08/2009q3_grant_proposal_enhancin.html by Shlomi Fish "perl core memory improvements":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/02/2010q1_grant_proposal_perl_cor.html by Jim Cromie "Enhancing Perl 6 Pattern Matching":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/02/2010_grant_proposal_enhancing.html by Morris M. Siegel

For this quarter TPF has three grant proposals that were not funded in 2009Q3 round and that will be discussed and voted again in this round, and four new grant proposals: "Creating a ctypes-Like Interface for Perl to External Subroutines":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/08/2009q3_grant_proposal_creating.html by Shlomi Fish "Enhancing CPANHQ":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/08/2009q3_grant_proposal_enhancin.html by Shlomi Fish "perl core memory improvements":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/02/2010q1_grant_proposal_perl_cor.html by Jim Cromie "Enhancing Perl 6 Pattern Matching":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/02/2010_grant_proposal_enhancing.html by Morris M. Siegel "Perl Compiler":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/02/2010_grant_proposal_perl_compi.html by Reini urban "CPAN

perl core memory improvements Name: Jim Cromie Email: Amount Requested: How much is your project worth? $3000 Synopsis Memory allocation enhancements in core Perl's variable namespace model is very flexible, users can: create vars, in any package, or in my scope, by naming them; give them complex values: my $foo share/assign/shallow-copy them: $main::bar $foo; crosslink or self ref them: $a $a other hairy stuff This

Enhancing Perl 6 Pattern Matching with Ideas from Snobol4 and Other Sources Name: Morris M. Siegel, Ph.D. Email: Amount Requested: $3000 The substance of my proposed alternative pattern-matching specification has already been essentially worked out as a self-funded research project, as it were. I felt this project was of such importance that it was worthwhile giving myself a sort of sabbatical to develop it. It has taken rather longer than

Improve Dist::Zilla's Tests, Documentation, and Structure Name: Ricardo Signes Email: Amount Requested: $2000 Synopsis Dist::Zilla is a tool that helps Perl programmers build distributions for the CPAN. It eliminates boilerplate, handles packaging, interfaces with changelogs and version control, improves prerequisite management, and generally makes it easier to be a CPAN author. This grant will fund work to make it easier for new users to adopt Dist::Zilla and for Dist::Zilla itself

CPAN reviews Name: Alexandr Ciornii Email: Amount Requested: $1200 Synopsis Many CPAN modules have good documentation, many have bad documentation. But there is no such thing as enough documentation. There are many good reviews, examples, descriptions outside CPAN. I propose to collect them and cataloguize. I want to make a site with links to reviews of CPAN modules. In general this site should be community-moderated, community-edited and allow users adding