TPF Board members meet every month and we intend to publish meeting minutes going forward. Here's the one for January 17th, 2020. Attendees** Stuart J Mackintosh Dave Rolsky Dan Wright Pete Krawczyk Ricardo Signes Makoto Nozaki Approved Funding of $2500 for DCBPW Pawel Murias’ Ian Hague grant completion Cancel Patrick Michaud’s Ian Hague grant after having contacted Patrick, who agrees that the grant should be cancelled Other items** FOSDEM participation

I am pleased to announce that The Perl Foundation will be taking part in the Outreachy May to August 2020 internships. The last time we participated was in 2016. At this stage we are looking for mentors and project ideas from the Perl and Raku community. If you are interested in becoming a mentor, please read the Mentor description and add your ideas at our repo. We plan to close

This year's European Perl Conference takes place in Riga, Latvia, between the 7th and 9th August 2019. This is the 20th edition of the conference previously known as YAPC::Europe, then TPCiA and TPCiG, and now it is renamed to PerlCon. Despite the name and location, our attendees come from all around the world. The top five countries with the most attendees are the UK, Germany, USA, Russia and the Netherlands.

Google Summer of Code is making great progress. I appreciate everyone's help so far. Separately, The Perl Foundation plans to participate in the first edition of Google Season of Docs. This initiative will fund writers to help improve the documentation of open source projects, and TPF will be applying to improve the documentation of the Perl 6 language. This documentation effort started in 2012 and is fully volunteer based. It's

I am pleased to announce that The Perl Foundation has been selected as a Google Summer of Code 2019 mentor organization. You can still submit new ideas or propose yourself as a mentor. To add ideas, or to become a mentor, see our GitHub repo. Students can connect with us at our Google Summer of Code page. I appreciate the hard work made by the community volunteers, especially JJ Merelo,

Dave Rolsky taught classes at YAPC/TPC for a number of years and he was compensated for it. As Dave is a new member of the TPF Board and TPF organizes TPC, there is a potential conflict of interest. Dave wishes to continue his class. The typical rate paid by students is in the range of $150-$175 TPC takes a portion of it to cover expense such as venue and the

The Perl Foundation is participating in Google Summer of Code again this year. Projects on Perl 5, Perl 6 modules or infrastructure are all equally welcome. Currently we are seeking project ideas and mentors. The GSoC page has some more information on what it means becoming a mentor. Ideas are collected in a GitHub repo, so just open a pull request with your idea. Deadline for project idea and mentor

Jonathan Worthington recently requested an extension of his Perl 6 Performance and Reliability Engineering grant. I'm pleased to announce that the Board of Directors approved extension of another $10,000. It'll allow him to dedicate another 167 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

The TPF Board of Directors approved extension of these two grants under the Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. Dave Mitchell's Maintaining Perl 5 Grant Tony Cook's Maintaining Perl 5 Grant The Board also approved to allocate $40,000 to the Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund to enable the above. We thank the TPF sponsors to make these grants possible.

As communicated previously.... The Perl Foundation is a non-profit, 501 organization based in the United States. Currently its board of directors has six members and TPF will start annual nomination and election process of new members. Bringing new people to the board regularly, with some community input, will allow the organization to grow and increase its output. Here are the details: 1. Nomination A new member should be nominated by

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 thing I did last month was to fix a bunch of issues with tr///c. Initially I was just working on a particular ticket, then noticed that tr///c was almost completed untested in core, and had a bunch of issues, and I

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 29 tickets were reviewed, and 6 patches were applied 34.99 #127743 try to work up makefile rules for new stack limit handling #127743 more makefile rules, work on fetching config from var instead of a constant #127743

Jonathan Worthington recently requested an extension of his Perl 6 Performance and Reliability Engineering grant. I'm pleased to announce that the Board of Directors approved extension of another $10,000. It'll allow him to dedicate another 400 hours to this work. Additional $210 of expense was approved to cover the wire tranfer fee from the past payments and the next payment. I would like to thank the community members who took

This is a monthly report by Zefram on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. The hours that I have worked in 2018-01 pursuant to my TPF core maintenance grant are as follows. 9h33m review mail 5h31m review tickets 2h40m Bleadperl v5.27.6-206-g16ada235c3 breaks JGAMBLE/Algorithm-QuineMcCluskey-0.16.tar.gz 2h14m Subroutine doesn't create elements. 1h57m Cwd: different return

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 4 tickets were reviewed or worked on. 22.84 #127743 32-bit build warnings/build issues #127743 finish up 32-bit testing, commits, work on other unaddressed Storable issues, 64-bit frozen data #127743 handle 32-bit frozen data as unsigned, add support

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 latest report. This funding will come from the Perl 6 Core Development Fund. Will Coke Coleda agreed to continue the grant manager's role. Before we make a decision on this extension

This is a monthly report by Zefram on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. The hours that I have worked in 2017-12 pursuant to my TPF core maintenance grant are as follows. 22h40m socket SOCK_CLOEXEC 21h58m review tickets 16h19m review mail 12h47m smartmatch 11h19m Perl segfaults in BEGIN, write to null pointer,

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. Two tickets were worked on. 17.98 #127743 work out a practical fix, work on implementation #127743 finish implementation testing #127743 commit, work on fix for network retrieves of large objects, fix some -DDEBUGGING build issues #127743 build issues,

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 last month mainly: Fixing some more issues thrown up by the new OP_MULTICONCAT optimisation; Working on a few fuzzer tickets 7:01 BBC: MULTICONCAT: Mail-SpamAssassin-3.4.1 affected too 4:27 OP_MULTICONCAT failure on Z/OS 1:55 RT #132187 heap-buffer-overflow in Perl_fbm_instr

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 last month mainly: Fixing some issues thrown up by the new OP_MULTICONCAT optimisation; Fixing some regressions in deparse testing: 't/TEST -deparse' feeds every test suite script through the deparser before trying to run it; about 6 scripts that formerly