This is a monthly report by Tony Cook on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. Approximately 47 tickets were reviewed, and 7 patches were applied. 7.13 #122112 work on a fix #122112 more work on a fix #122112 debugging #122112 debugging #122112 debugging, look for a different approach 2.31 #124256 re-work patch

Tony Cook has requested an extension of $20,000 for his Maintaining the Perl 5 grant. This will allow him to dedicate another 400 hours to this work. During this grant he sent regular reports to the p5p mailing list as well as providing monthly summary reports that have been published on this site, the most recent of which are linked below: August 2017 July 2017 May/June 2017 Before we make

This is a monthly report by Dave Mitchell on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. I didn't do much TPF work last month; I was mainly instead doing work funded by Booking.com. What time I did spend was mainly fixing a few 'blead breaks perl' tickets. SUMMARY: 1:34 RT #131938 BBC Imager-1.005.tar.gz 2:00 RT #131942 BBC

This is a monthly report by Tony Cook on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. Approximately 42 tickets were reviewed, and 9 patches were applied 0.53 #124368 retesting, apply to blead 4.13 #127663 testing, fix issues on Win32, more testing #127663 more testing, push smoke branch 0.57 #128263 retest, apply to blead 1.08

This is a monthly report by Tony Cook on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. Approximately 38 tickets were reviewed, and 3 patches were applied 0.12 #p5p POSIX 2008 locale api discussion with khw 4.00 #124368 work up a decent test, find a difference between threaded/non-threaded, work up a patch, testing #124368 more testing,

This is a monthly report by Dave Mitchell on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. I spent June mainly: finishing off the heavy reworking of perl's internal sprintf implementation. This has now been merged into blead. It contains about 100 commits which fixes bugs, audits the code for possible integer overflows, makes the code simpler

This is a monthly report by Tony Cook on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. May report Approximately 12 tickets were reviewed. 0.57 in @INC follow-up for File::Fetch #11 1.98 #128207 debugging #128207 more debugging, comment 0.53 #130591 review discussion, provide updated patch 0.17 #131000 review discussion 1.31 #131062 work on a

Dave Mitchell recently requested an extension of his Maintaining Perl 5 grant. I'm pleased to announce that the Board of Directors approved extension of another $20,000. It'll allow him to dedicate another 333 hours to this work. I would like to thank the community members who took time to comment on this grant extension request and our sponsors who made funding the grant possible through our Perl 5 Core Maintenance

I am pleased to announce that the TPF Board of Directors approved the grant proposal Zefram maintaining the Perl 5 Core. This will allow him to dedicate 200 hours to the work. I appreciate TPF donors who made this possible and all the people who gave us feedback on this grant. I hope Zefram's work will benefit the community.

Jonathan Worthington's request to extend Perl 6 Performance and Reliability Engineering by $10,000 has been approved. This will allow him to dedicate another 200 hours to this work. I appreciate TPF donors who made this possible and all the people who gave us feedback on this grant. I hope Jonathan's work will continue to benefit the community.

brian d foy reported that his grant is completed. brian gave us a list of talks/movies as follows: Amsterdam.pm on June 8 French Perl Workshop on June 10 London.pm on June 29 PerlTricks.com article I appreciate TPF donors who made this possible, all the people who gave us feedback on this grant, and brian, who delivered the quality results. I am personally looking forward to brian's talk at NY.pm, which

brian d foy's Perl 6 Travel Grant Proposal has been approved. The payment will be made after Presentation at Amsterdam.pm and London.pm Slides are published Articles are published based on the talks Recorded presentation is published Thank you for those who gave us valuable feedback and thank you for the TPF donors for making it happen.

Jonathan Worthington has requested an extension of $10,000 for his Perl 6 Performance and Reliability Engineering grant. This will allow him to dedicate another 200 hours to this work. His previous work was successfully delivered as reported in the This funding will come from the Before we make a decision on this extension we would like to have a period of community consultation that will last for seven days. Please

Dave Mitchell has requested an extension of $20,000 for his Maintaining the Perl 5 Core grant. He also has requested an hourly rate change from $50 to $60. This will allow him to dedicate another 333 hours to this work. During this grant he sent regular reports to the p5p mailing list as well as providing monthly summary reports that have been published on this site, the most recent of

This is a monthly report by Dave Mitchell on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. I spent May mainly: heavily reworking perl's internal sprintf implementation. I've now pushed a smoking branch containing about 100 commits which fixes bugs, audits the code for possible integer overflows, makes the code simpler and simpler to understand, and improves

TPF Board has received a new grant application under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. Before we vote on this proposal, we would like to get feedback from the Perl community. Please leave feedback in the comments or, if you prefer, email your comments to makoto at perlfoundation.org. IRC nickname: Zefram project title: Zefram maintaining the Perl 5 core ###synopsis I'd like a grant to work on the Perl 5 core,

TPF Board has received a new grant application as below. Before we vote on this proposal, we would like to get feedback from the Perl community. Please leave feedback in the comments or, if you prefer, email your comments to makoto at perlfoundation.org. Perl 6 Travel Grant Name: brian d foy Amount Requested: $2,500 Synopsis I'm passing through Europe in June and can extend my trip on either side to

This is a monthly report by Dave Mitchell on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. The main things I did last month were: Fixd require's "Can't locate" error message so that it only mentions @INC if @INC was actually searched, and only gives the "you may need to install" hint if the filename maps to a

This is a grant report by Jonathan Worthington on his grant under Perl 6 Core Development Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. I have completed the second 200 hours of my grant, funded by the Perl 6 core development fund. This report summarizes the work done during those 200 hours. In accordance with community feedback, the vast majority of effort has been put into reliability

Tony Cook has requested an extension of $20,000 for his Maintaining the Perl 5 grant. This will allow him to dedicate another 400 hours to this work. During this grant he sent regular reports to the p5p mailing list as well as providing monthly summary reports that have been published on this site, the most recent of which are linked below: January 2017 December 2016 November 2016 October 2016 Before

This is a monthly report by Dave Mitchell on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. The main things I did last month were: working on fuzzer-related tickets in the security queue; working on tickets in the 5.26 blocker queue; investigating the possibility of storing short strings directly in the head of an SV, eliminating the need for an

This is a monthly report by Dave Mitchell on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. The main things I did last month were: Firstly, fixing various issues with scopes in regexes. In particular, code blocks sometimes failed to undo localisations when backtracking. For example the $s below wasn't always being restored when the B part of the match

This is a monthly report by Tony Cook on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. Approximately 38 tickets were reviewed, and 8 patches were applied 13.82 #122490 more merge conflicts #122490 more merge conflicts, track down warning sources #122490 track down warning sources, start merging test changes #122490 more test merging, testing,

Dave Mitchell writes: There are two main things I did in December First I sorted out infrastructure for ops which are called in boolean context. Currently PADHV and RV2HV ops are flagged specially if they are not only used in scalar context, but where the result they return will only ever be used as a boolean value; for example 'if This was originally done since a hash in scalar context

The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the January round. Proposal in this round Proposer Requested Amount Link to the Details Standardization, Test Coverage, and Documentation of Perl 6 I/O Routines USD 999 Proposal Voting Results Title Yes No Score Standardization, Test Coverage, and Documentation of Perl 6 I/O Routines 7 0 35 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 0 0 Definition of the score is found in

Dave Mitchell recently requested an extension of his Maintaining Perl 5 grant. I'm pleased to announce that the Board of Directors approved extension of another $20,000. I would like to thank the community members who took time to comment on this grant extension request and our sponsors who made funding the grant possible through our Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund.

The Perl Foundation's Grants Committee is looking for a new member. The new member will work at the committee in this large, high-profile nonprofit organization with other 13 members who include 4 White Camel Award recipients. The committee has presence in all the global regions and major Perl development threads. It's a volunteer position with no compensation. We would like to elect either one of 1> the Committee Secretary 2>

Tony Cook writes: Approximately 21 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 2 patches were applied. 4.33 #127149 re-work patch to fix a related issue, debugging #127149 debugging, comment on Encode #59 14.98 #127663 testing, minor polish, re-check, comment with patch #127663 reply to comment, work on additional patch for env control of the internal seed #127663 more internal seed env, comment with

The Grants Committee has received one grant proposal Standardization, Test Coverage, and Documentation of Perl 6 I/O Routines for the January round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on the proposal. Review the proposal below and please comment here by January 23rd, 2017. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced approximately in

Dave Mitchell writes: I spent December: 1> looking for quick some wins on speeding up perl compile-time, using 'perl -MCPAN -e1' as a typical example of loading and compiling several .pm files. I tweaked Perl_yyparse and shaved ~2% off the compile time; then tweaked Perl_sv_gets and shaved another ~2% off, and also got a pleasing run-time boost for line reading, with reading a big list of words now ~8% faster

Dave Mitchell has requested an extension of $20,000 for his Maintaining the Perl 5 Core grant. This will allow him to dedicate another 400 hours to this work. During this grant he sent regular reports to the p5p mailing list as well as providing monthly summary reports that have been published on this site, the most recent of which are linked below: Month 35 Month 36 Oct/Nov Before we make

Dave Mitchell writes: I spent last the last two months: reworking list assignment to be much faster in many cases. For example, this code is 33% faster in 5.25.7 compared with 5.24.0: my @a; for my $i @a @a trying to reduce the overhead of compile time a bit; freeing up some uses of SV flags; fixing various assorted bugs as listed below;

Grant Proposal: Learning Perl 6, a book from O'Reilly Media At the invitation of the TPF board, brian has withdrawn the grant proposal for the Learning Perl 6 book, and will submit a proposal to TPF on other ways for TPF to participate in enhancing the visibility of Perl 6. The Grants Committee had a general discussion on funding activities whose output is not free of charge. TPF has documentation

The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period has come. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, consider sending a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 January 15th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback and conclude acceptance by January 25th. To

General White Camels Awards winners have been annouonced. TPF will take part in Outreachy. Conferences Perl Conference NA 2017 will be held June 18th through June 23rd in Alexandria, Virginia. Grants Updates Maintaining Perl 5: November August Maintaining Perl 5 Core: October September JavaScript Backend For Rakudo: October RPerl User Documentation: December October blogs.perl.org Rewrite: November Test2 Manual: November October Start Act Voyager:

The Perl Foundation received the following report from Tony Cook. Approximately 31 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 8 patches were applied. 0.37 #116945 review and comment #116945 try to review branch, comment 2.05 #122112 research, review code 3.66 #123638 work on patch, testing #123638 perldiag wording, work on regression test #123638 final tests, comment with patch 3.58 #126706 testing, research

The Perl Foundation received the following report from Tony Cook in November. Note: This post was delayed due to the role changes within TPF. Apologies. Approximately 29 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 8 patches were applied. 1.52 #128996 testing vs 129879, seems to be the same, make public, apply patch 4.11 #128997 reproduce again, debugging #128997 move to public, comment, debug other issue, work

The Grants Committee has received one grant proposal for the November/December round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on the proposal. Review the proposal below and please comment here by December 12th, 2016. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced approximately in one week. Learning Perl 6, a book from O'Reilly Media

The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period has come. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, consider sending a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 November 25th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback and conclude acceptance by December 5th. To

The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period has come. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, consider sending a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 September 30th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback and conclude acceptance by October 10th. To

The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period has come. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, consider sending a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 July 15th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback and conclude acceptance by July 28th. The

The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period has come. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, consider sending a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 May 15th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback and conclude acceptance by May 28th. The

The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the March/April round. Proposal in this round Proposer Requested Amount Link to the Details Chad 'Exodist' Granum USD 2,000 Test2 Manual Voting Results Title Yes No Score Test2 Manual 8 0 36 5 5 5 5 5 5 3 3 Definition of the score is found in 3.2 of the rules. Details We approve Test2 Documentation grant. One of the committee members

The Grants Committee has received one grant proposal for the March round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on the proposal. Review the proposal below and please comment here by April 9th, 2016. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced by April 16th. Test2 Manual Name: Chad 'Exodist' Granum. Amount Requested:

The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period has come. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, consider sending a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 March 23rd UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback and conclude acceptance by April 5th. The

The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the January/February round. Proposal in this round Proposer Requested Amount Link to the Details Will Braswell USD 1,200 RPerl User Documentation, Part 2 Voting Results Title Yes No Score RPerl Documentation, Part 2 5 4 9 3 2 2 1 1 Definition of the score is found in 3.2 of the rules. Details We approve RPerl User Documentation, Part 2. RPerl Adoption

The Grants Committee has received one grant proposal for the January/February round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on the proposal. Review the proposal below and please comment here by February 17th, 2016. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced by February 27th. RPerl User Documentation, Part 2 Name: Will Braswell

This site, The Perl Foundation News, got a technical issue and it had to be changed to read-only mode last week. I'm pleased to announce that this site is back up with the latest version of Movable Type. Apologies for those who tried to leave a comment in the past week and ended up with an error. Grants Committee's January round is rescheduled as follows: Proposal deadline: February 3rd Public

Happy new year! The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period has come. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, consider sending a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 January 16th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback and conclude acceptance by

I am pleased to announce that Sawyer X has joined the Grants Committee. Sawyer X is a frequent speaker at Perl conferences, an event organizer, and a dedicated CPAN contributor. He has been leading the Dancer web framework, organizing the Perl 5 Porters Summary emails, and is the recipient of this year's White Camel Award for outstanding non-technical contributions to the Perl community. I regret to announce that Ben Tilly