The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the November round. Proposals in this round Proposer Requested Amount Link to the Details Ngangsi Richard Akumbo USD 6,938 Women in Technology, Cameroon Chad 'Exodist' Granum USD 2,500 Test::Simple Test::Stream stabilization and merge into perl-blead Chad 'Exodist' Granum USD 2,000 Test::Stream Manual Will Braswell USD 1,200 RPerl Alioth Benchmarks, Part 2 This proposal was carried over from the September round. Voting

The Grants Committee has received four grant proposals for the November round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on them. Review the proposals below and please comment there. The Committee members will start the voting process on November 28th and the conclusion will be announced by November 30th. If your comment does not appear in 24 hours, it is likely that

We have received the following grant application "Women in Technology, Cameroon". Please leave feedback in the comments field by November 27th, 2015. If your comment does not appear in 24 hours, contact me at tpf-grants-secretary at perl-foundation.org. A project proposal for the promotion of technology entrepreneurs, providing a technology hub and training the next generation of technology entrepreneurs by empowering women and girls. Name: Ngangsi Richard Akumbo Founder

We have received the following grant application "Test::Simple Test::Stream stabilization and merge into perl-blead". Please leave feedback in the comments field by November 27th, 2015. If your comment does not appear in 24 hours, contact me at tpf-grants-secretary at perl-foundation.org. Test::Simple Test::Stream stabilization and merge into perl-blead Name: Chad Granum Amount Requested: USD 2,500 Synopsis Stabilize and release the Test-Stream Test-Simple overhaul. Benefits to the Perl Community Test-Simple

We have received the following grant application "Test::Stream Manual". Please leave feedback in the comments field by November 27th, 2015. If your comment does not appear in 24 hours, contact me at tpf-grants-secretary at perl-foundation.org. Test::Stream Manual Name: Chad 'Exodist' Granum. Amount Requested: USD 2,000 Synopsis I am proposing to write a Test::Stream manual. The Test::Stream distribution already has very complete module documentation. The manual will build off

We have received the following grant application "RPerl Alioth Benchmarks, Part 2". Please leave feedback in the comments field by November 27th, 2015. If your comment does not appear in 24 hours, contact me at tpf-grants-secretary at perl-foundation.org. RPerl Alioth Benchmarks, Part 2 Name: Will Braswell Amount Requested: USD 1,200 Synopsis RPerl v1.2 has been released with a working N-body benchmark, as promised. Thanks to RPerl, we are

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 16th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback and conclude acceptance by December 1st. The

The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the September round. Voting Results Proposal details Title Yes No Abstain Score RPerl Doc 8 1 0 28 5 5 4 4 3 3 3 1 RPerl Benchmarks 5 2 2 10 3 3 2 1 1 RPerl Operators 0 4 5 RPerl Medium-Magic 0 4 5 Plerd 0 7 2 Definition of the score is found in 3.2 of the rules.

The Grants Committee has received four grant proposals for the September round. With the one which was carried over from the July round, we have five proposals to choose from. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on them. Review the proposals below and please comment there. The Committee members will start the voting process on September 28th and the conclusion will

We have received the following grant application "RPerl Medium-Magic Grammar". Please leave feedback in the comments field by September 27th, 2015. If your comment does not appear in 24 hours, contact me at tpf-grants-secretary at perl-foundation.org. As we have four proposals on RPerl this time, please use RPerl User Documentation proposal if your comment is about RPerl in general and not specific to this proposal. RPerl Medium-Magic Grammar Name:

We have received the following grant application "RPerl Operators". Please leave feedback in the comments field by September 27th, 2015. If your comment does not appear in 24 hours, contact me at tpf-grants-secretary at perl-foundation.org. As we have four proposals on RPerl this time, please use RPerl User Documentation proposal if your comment is about RPerl in general and not specific to this proposal. RPerl Operators Name: Will Braswell

We have received the following grant application "RPerl Alioth Benchmarks, Part 2". Please leave feedback in the comments field by September 27th, 2015. If your comment does not appear in 24 hours, contact me at tpf-grants-secretary at perl-foundation.org. As we have four proposals on RPerl this time, please use RPerl User Documentation proposal if your comment is about RPerl in general and not specific to this proposal. RPerl Alioth Benchmarks,

We have received the following grant application "RPerl User Documentation". Please leave feedback in the comments field by September 27th, 2015. If your comment does not appear in 24 hours, contact me at tpf-grants-secretary at perl-foundation.org. As we have four proposals on RPerl this time, please use this entry if your comment is about RPerl in general and not specific to each RPerl proposal. RPerl User Documentation Name: Will

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 18th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback and conclude acceptance by October 2nd. The

The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the July round. Proposal in this round Document and release Plerd, an open-source lightweight blogging engine, Jason McIntosh, USD 2,000 Revitalize blogs.perl.org, Jeffrey Goff and Amalia Pomian, USD 3,000 Voting Results Title Yes No Score Plerd 4 3 5 2 1 1 1 blogs.perl.org 8 0 35 5 5 5 5 5 5 4 1 Definition of the score is found in

The Grants Committee has received two grant proposals for the July round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on the proposals. Review the proposals below and please comment there. The Committee members will start the voting process on July 27th and the conclusion will be announced by August 2nd. If your comment does not appear in 24 hours, it is likely

_ We are again reviewing this proposal. Please leave feedback by September 27, 2015._ We have received the following grant application "Document and release Plerd, an open-source lightweight blogging engine". Please leave feedback in the comments field by July 26th, 2015. If your comment does not appear in 24 hours, contact me at tpf-grants-secretary at perl-foundation.org. Document and release Plerd, an open-source lightweight blogging engine Name: Jason McIntosh Amount

We have received the following grant application "Revitalize blogs.perl.org". Please leave feedback in the comments field by July 26th, 2015. If your comment does not appear in 24 hours, contact me at tpf-grants-secretary at perl-foundation.org. Revitalize blogs.perl.org Name: Jeffrey Goff, Amalia Pomian Amount Requested: USD 3000 Synopsis blogs.perl.org is in need of replacement. Evozon would like to offer a customized instance of PearlBee in its place, with source

The previous round got no proposals and we seriously need one. It doesn't have to be a huge Perl project. Do you have anything in mind you want to spend a few weekends to work to help the Perl community? 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

Re: Call For Grant Proposals We have not got grant proposals. We are extending the deadline until the end of May. If you need ideas, rjbs's article is still relevant apart from the Gist one. If you have any questions, let us know at tpf-grants-secretary at perl-foundation.org.

Contribute to Perl and get some 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

For the March round, we got no applications. The next round will be in May. Grant updates: Start ACT Voyager by Theo van Hoesel: Enjoy his report and give feedback April 1 Act Perl::Lint Yet Another Static Analyzer for Perl5 by Taiki Kawakami: We got an update and the report will be posted next week. Modern Object Oriented Programming in Perl by Toby Inkster: No update from the grantee. The

I had flu with a high fever for a week. Unfortunately this happened in the final week of the March grant acceptance period. Apologies I couldn't respond to inquiries in timely fashion. As we haven't received grant applications in this period, we will extend the deadline to March 22nd. To apply for a grant of up to $10,000, please refer to my previous post to understand how.

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 15th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback and conclude the acceptance by March 30th.

The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the January round. Proposal in this round Ado a rapid active commotion Krasimir Berov, USD 4,500 Voting Results Title Yes No Score Ado 1 4 Definition of the score is found in 3.2 of the rules. Details While it is always difficult to make decision on grant proposals, this was a particularly tough one. We understand this is a serious project with

The Grants Committee has received one grant proposal 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 25th, 2015. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced by January 31st. **Ado a rapid active commotion Name: Krasimir Berov

Here are updates of the running grants. Grant Report: Inline::C December 2014, Final. This grant has completed successfully and the payment is underway. It was a great contribution to the community and I enjoyed reading their continuous updates on their blog. Act Voyager long story Grant Report: Modern OO Programming in Perl Dec 2014 Perl::Lint Yet Another Static Analyzer for Perl5: We got an update and are discussing it with

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 14th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback and conclude the acceptance

Grants Committee Year-End Report is here in PDF format. It's a bit on the formal side; I'll post a less formal one at my Grants Committee Secretary blog

The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the November round. Proposal in this round IO::All Redux, Ingy döt Net and David Oswald, USD 4,000 Voting Results Title Yes No Score IO::All Redux 2 5 Definition of the score is found in 3.2 of the rules. Details This grant was not approved. The majority of the committee members preferred to wait until the Inline::C grant completes. There was positive feedback

The Grants Committee has received one grant proposal for the November 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 there. The Committee members will start the voting process on November 26th and the conclusion will be announced by November 30th. IO::All Redux, Ingy döt Net and David Oswald, USD 4,000 Note that

We have received the following grant application "IO::All Redux". Please leave feedback in the comments field by November 25th, 2014. IO::All Redux Name Ingy döt Net David Oswald Amount Requested USD $4,000 Synopsis Rewrite IO::All to match the needs of 10 years experience. Benefits to the Perl Community IO::All is a Perl module that attempts to make all Input/Output operations in Perl, as simple, normal, and uniform

Grant recipients are required to publish a grant report every month. We got the following updates in October: Grant Report: Modern OO Programming in Perl Grant Report: Inline::C October 2014 ACT Voyager logbook 2014-10-01 ACT Voyager logbook 2014-09-01 We appreciate those who made great progress and kept the community updated during the autumn conference season. Just a reminder, CFP for the November round will be closed tomorrow.

This is a bi-monthly reminder. 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 14th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback and conclude

Grant recipients are required to publish a grant report every month. Here are what we got in September: Modern Object Oriented Programming in Perl Perl::Lint TPF also got a grant report on "Start ACT Voyager" so I expect it to be published shortly. If you have any comments/suggestions for each grant, please get in touch with them. We appreciate their hard work and we look forward to seeing the next

The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the September round. Proposals in this round Nile Visual Web App Framework Separating Code From Design Multi Lingual And Multi Theme, Ahmed Amin Elsheshtawy, USD 10,000 IO::All Redux, Ingy döt Net and David Oswald, USD 3,000 Inline::C Module Support, Ingy döt Net and David Oswald, USD 2,000 Pegex Grammar for YAML, Ingy döt Net and David Oswald, USD 3,500 Swim Pod, Ingy

The Grants Committee has received five grant proposals for the September round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on the proposals. Review the proposals below and please comment there. The Committee members will start the voting process on September 26th and the conclusion will be announced by September 30th. Nile Visual Web App Framework Separating Code From Design Multi Lingual And

We have received the following grant application "Swim to Pod". Please leave feedback in the comments field by September 25th, 2014. Swim to Pod Name: Ingy döt Net David Oswald Amount Requested USD $3000 Synopsis Provide Swim tools that allow Perl programmers to produce elaborate Pod documention, painlessly. Provide all the functionality of Pod in a syntax better than Markdown. Provide 5 plugins for extending Swim in

We have received the following grant application "Pegex Grammar for YAML". Please leave feedback in the comments field by September 25th, 2014. Pegex Grammar for YAML Name: Ingy döt Net David Oswald Amount Requested USD $3500 Synopsis Make YAML.pm and YAML::Tiny driven by a common formal grammar. Benefits to the Perl Community Perl has four major YAML implementations: YAML YAML::Tiny YAML::XS YAML::Syck They all have major incompatabilities.

We have received the following grant application "Inline::C Module Support". Please leave feedback in the comments field by September 25th, 2014. Inline::C Module Support Name Ingy döt Net David Oswald Amount Requested USD $2,000 Synopsis Make Inline::C and Inline::CPP the best choice for writing "XS" modules. Benefits to the Perl Community In 2000, Inline.pm and Inline::C brought XS from "hard things possible" to "hard things simple". People

We have received the following grant application "IO::All Redux". Please leave feedback in the comments field by September 25th, 2014. IO::All Redux Name Ingy döt Net David Oswald Amount Requested USD $3,000 Synopsis Rewrite IO::All to match the needs of 10 years experience. Benefits to the Perl Community IO::All is a Perl module that attempts to make all Input/Output operations in Perl, as simple, normal, and uniform

We have received the following grant application "Nile Visual Web App Framework Separating Code From Design Multi Lingual And Multi Theme". Please leave feedback in the comments field by September 25th, 2014. Nile Visual Web App Framework Separating Code From Design Multi Lingual And Multi Theme Name: Ahmed Amin Elsheshtawy Amount Requested: USD 10,000 Synopsis The main idea in this framework is to separate all the html design,

This announcement is essentially the same as the one from July. This is a bi-monthly reminder. 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 14th UTC.

We are pleased to announce that Mark Jensen has joined the Grants Committee as a Grant Manager. Mark has been a core developer on the BioPerl project since 2009, and is the author of the Neo4j graph database Perl driver, REST::Neo4p. He currently manages the Data Coordinating Center team of The Cancer Genome Atlas. Please join me in extending a warm welcome to Mark.

We are looking for enthusiastic volunteers who can make contributions to Perl development through the Grants Committee. Currently we have a couple of openings for Grant Managers. Responsibilities Work with grantees and help grants be delivered successfully. Ensure the grant progress is published to the community every month. Become the communication hub between grantees and the Committee. Join the Committee's discussion to improve the grant program. Preferred qualifications Medium or

The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the July round. Proposals in this round Start ACT Voyager, Theo van Hoesel, USD 6,000 Book: Practical Approach to Web Programming with Perl 5, Ahmed Bilal, USD 1,000 Voting Results Title Yes No Score Start ACT Voyager 5 2 18 5+4+3+3+3 Book: Practical Approach to... 2 7 Definition of the score is found in 3.2 of the rules. Details Start ACT Voyager

The Grants Committee has received two grant proposals for the July round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on the proposal. Review the proposals below and please comment there. The Committee members will start the voting process on July 26th and the conclusion will be announced by July 31st. Book: Practical Approach to Web Programming with Perl 5, Ahmed Bilal, USD

We have received the following grant application "Start ACT Voyager". Please leave feedback in the comments field by July 25th, 2014. Start ACT Voyager Name: Theo van Hoesel Amount Requested: 1.000 DBIx::Class 2.000 Dancer implementation 1.000 REST api 2.000 Theme Based templates 6.000 TOTAL Synopsis The Perl Community is a social community that gathers at several places around the world during Conferences and WorkShops

We have received the following grant application "Book: Practical Approach to Web Programming with Perl 5". Please leave feedback in the comments field by July 25th, 2014. Book: Practical Approach to Web Programming with Perl 5 Name: Ahmad Bilal Amount Requested: USD 1000 Synopsis This book would teach web programming from ground up through a practical and minimalist approach. Benefits to the Perl Community 2 years back, when

As communicated at the May round closure 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

The following grants have been cancelled and no payments will be made to the grantees. YACT Yet Another Conference Tool The grant was started on May 2013 and has been cancelled as the grantee opted to cancel it. Next Release of Pinto With Key Features The grant was started on May 2013 and has been cancelled due to the rules of operation 2.6. Perl 6 Tablets The

The Grants Committee is pleased to announce the voting result of the May round. The following grant is approved and funded: Modern Object Oriented Programming in Perl, Toby Inkster, USD 4,000 Voting result: Title Yes No Score Modern Object Oriented Programming in Perl 6 0 25 5+5+5+5+3+2 Definition of score is found in 3.2 of the rules. We would like to express gratitude for those who took time to give

The Grants Committee has received one grant proposal for the May 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 there. The Committee members will start the voting process on May 22nd and the conclusion will be announced by May 31st. Modern Object Oriented Programming in Perl, Toby Inkster, USD 4,000

We have received the following grant application. Please leave feedback in the comments field by May 22nd, 2014. Modern Object Oriented Programming in Perl Name: Toby Inkster Amount Requested: USD 4,000 Synopsis The proposal is to write a book on Modern OO programming techniques using Moose, Moo, and Class::Tiny. This would be written in a similar style to chromatic's Modern Perl book, following the same test-driven approach to

The Grants Committee calls for grant proposals every two months. It's time for the May round! If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, consider sending a grant application. The application deadline is 23:59 May 10th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback and conclude the acceptance by May 31st. The format will be the same as the March

The Grants Committee is pleased to announce the voting results of the March round. The following grant is approved and funded: Perl::Lint Yet Another Static Analyzer for Perl5, Taiki Kawakami, USD 800 The following grant is approved but not funded as specified in 3.4 of the Rules of Operation. This will be reconsidered in the next round according to 1.2 of the rules. Automated generation of DWIM Perl, Gabor Szabo,

The Grants Committee got four grant proposals for this round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on these proposals. Review the proposals below and please comment on each page. They are listed in the order in which they were received. JERL Perl5 running in the JVM, Michael Shomsky, USD 3,000 RPerl Test Suite Upgrade Module::Compile Integration, William N. Braswell, Jr., USD

We have received the following grant application. Please leave feedback in the comments field by March 22nd, 2014. Automated generation of DWIM Perl Name: Gabor Szabo Email: undisclosed Amount Requested: $6,000 Synopsis DWIM Perl is a "batteries included" Perl distribution for Microsoft Windows and for Linux. On Windows it is based on Strawberry Perl, on Linux it is compiled from the source released by the Perl 5

We have received the following grant application. Please leave feedback in the comments field by March 22nd, 2014. Perl::Lint Yet Another Static Analyzer for Perl5 Name: Taiki Kawakami Email: undisclosed Amount Requested: $800 Synopsis This project aims to create a fast and flexible static analyzer for Perl5 that has compatibility with Perl::Critic, with the goal to be light and fast enough to allow near real-time check of

We have received the following grant application. Please leave feedback in the comments field by March 22nd, 2014. Project Title RPerl Test Suite Upgrade Module::Compile Integration Name: Name of proposer. William N. Braswell, Jr. Email: Where we can contact you! undisclosed Amount Requested: How much is your project worth? $800 Synopsis A short description. Whether we want to admit it to ourselves or not,

We have received the following grant application. Please leave feedback in the comments field by March 22nd, 2014. JERL Perl5 running in the JVM Name Michael Shomsky Email: undisclosed Amount Requested: How much is your project worth? ~3000 Note: The project is in maintenance mode and it's 2nd year. It's gotten this far on 4hrs/month from one developer who would like to see it in a

As "announced previously":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2014/02/new-rules-of-operation---grant.html, the Grants Committee calls for grant proposals every two months. This is the first round under the new rule. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, consider sending grant application. The application deadline is March 14th. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback and conclude the acceptance by March 31st. There are several reasons for you

We are pleased to announce that the Grants Committee has updated the Rules of Operation. This change was made to make the program more useful for the grant applicants. It is a result of discussions stemming from the community feedback since "this post":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2013/08/2013q3-grant-proposals.html in August 2013. These rules will be in effect beginning with the next call for grant applications in March. Change summary **1. More frequent and faster evaluation

We are pleased to announce that Daisuke Maki has joined the Grants Committee. Daisuke was involved in the world's largest YAPC, YAPC::Asia Tokyo, since its inception in 2006, and has been the main organizer since 2009. He was also the main person behind creating and incorporating the Japan Perl Association. He received the White Camel Award in 2011. We regret to announce that Renée Bäcker, one of the Grant Managers

Joel Berger wrote: Alien::Base Final Report Summary With this report I end my grant for Alien::Base. I consider it to be a reasonable success and have hope that the project will continue further. It became, as perhaps I should have expected, a larger project than anticipated; the problems were rarely the anticipated ones. In the end Alien::Base faced two major problems: compile-time linking of the library and the localization of

From the grant manager: This project is in a phase where a bit of help from the community is required. Get in touch with Joel if you are able to help him with his problem. Joel Berger wrote: After a busy Christmas season and being engrossed in my upcoming thesis defense I have found it hard to find too much time to focus on Perl projects. Still Alien::Base has been

Joel Berger wrote: This month featured lots of work in the latter parts of Alien::Base. These improve library detection logic, pkg-config functionality and packlist support. I was especially pleased to get a bug report filed by bpo regular Toby Inkster. He is writing a provisional Alien::LibXML based on Alien::Base. He noticed some odd behaviors that we are still trying to work out. This feedback led to more improvements than just

Joel Berger wrote: This month has been a good one for Alien::Base, and I'm happy to report that I believe that the grant is winding up. We saw a beta release and had a project night during which we hacked on a few issues, but also I was keenly observing people assessment of usability, which I consider key to the success of the project. I think I have only a

Joel Berger wrote: After another busy month outside of the Perl world, I have gotten a little more time in the last week to work on Alien::Base. I must especially thank fellow WindyCity.pm member David Mertens for working with me on some of the Mac problems involved. N.B. I also want to thank him for PDL::Graphics::Prima, which made the rest of my $work easier this month! If you need interactive

Joel Berger wrote: Well its that time again. Thankfully the news is getting better once more! Much of my time which is earmarked for Perl went to preparing for my YAPC talks. I'm glad they went so well; thanks to all of you who attended. I did even get a question about Alien::Base during one of the Q&As, so I glad to know that people are interested. The news this

Joel Berger wrote: This month's work on Alien::Base started really exciting. I had tracked down several bugs and was honing in on full Linux compatibiliy. Turns out much of my testing problems had been in the test suite, wherein I mimiced make/Makefile with a perl script but made some incorrect assumptions. The problem came when I went to look at OS X. The problem I have found is that Mac

Joel Berger wrote: After last month's breakneck development pace, I knew this month wouldn't be as gratifying, and indeed it turned into quite a slog. This month involved lots of little bug fixes, posting dev releases to CPAN, then waiting for test results from CPANtesters. As a side note, there are a larger number of reports coming from Solaris and BSD than I would have expected. Sadly one of the

Joel Berger wrote: Once again I would like the thank the Perl Foundation for supporting me in my effort to provide a mechanism to ease the creation of Alien:: modules. Further I'd like to thank the many Perlers who have commented in various places that this project is of interest and that they are looking forward to providing that Alien:: module that they have always meant to write. This is

Jonathan Leto wrote: Really TLDR: The Parrot has landed. It brings me great joy to announce that I have completed all milestones for my "TPF":http://perlfoundation.org/ grant regarding the Parrot "Embed/Extend subsystems":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/11/2010q4-grant-proposal-improve.html! Not only that, but all of my grant work was included in the most recent release of Parrot, "3.5.0 "Menelaus"":http://parrot.org/news/2011/Parrot-3.5.0. The actual TLDR of this update is "many tests were written, code coverage is above "95%":http://tapir2.ro.vutbr.cz/cover/latest-c_cover/src-embed-api-c.html "for all":http://tapir2.ro.vutbr.cz/cover/latest-c_cover/src-extend-c.html "systems

Jonathan Leto wrote: I am excited to announce that I have completed my next grant milestone! I recently increased test coverage of extend_vtable.c to over 95% achieving the milestone with a half percent buffer. It definitely wasn't easy, but I changed the way I was approaching writing tests and it resulted in a "huge burst of productivity":https://github.com/parrot/parrot/compare/5dd8c543ab...8c04cc3e66. I went through a test coverage report and wrote down, on an actual

Jonathan Leto wrote: I am still on the path of increasing "test coverage in src/extend_vtable.c":https://github.com/parrot/parrot/blob/master/t/src/extend_vtable.t. It is much like a zen study, where you methodically concentrate on many tiny little pebbles, one at a time, moving them in the sand, to just the right place. According to the latest code coverage statistics, we are now at "72% code coverage":http://tapir2.ro.vutbr.cz/cover/latest-c_cover/src-extend_vtable-c.html, which is an increase of about 8% since my last report.

Jonathan Leto wrote: This wayward son is still on his treacherous journey to increase "test coverage in src/extend_vtable.c":https://github.com/parrot/parrot/blob/master/t/src/extend_vtable.t. When we last left off our traveler, he explained what the mythical VTABLE beast looked like, and we shall continue with the study of this chimerical fauna. According to the latest code coverage statistics, we are now at "64% code coverage":http://tapir2.ro.vutbr.cz/cover/latest-c_cover/src-extend_vtable-c.html, which is an increase of about 10% since my last report.

Jonathan Leto wrote: The quest to improve test coverage for src/extend_vtable.c has continued. Some dragons were slayed, a few trolls were paid tolls to cross creaky bridges of abstraction and many siren calls to hack on other code were dutifully ignored This "TPF":http://perlfoundation.org/ grant has forced me to become very familiar with Parrot vtables which is basically an API for talking to Parrot "PMCs":https://github.com/parrot/parrot/blob/master/docs/pdds/pdd17_pmc.pod PMC can stand for Parrot Magic

Jonathan Leto wrote: I have slowly but surely been increasing test coverage of src/extend_vtable.c, which when I started my grant was at 5% and is now sitting at 43%. I estimated that it would take about two weeks to get it to 50% and then another two weeks to get to 95%, but this was a bit optimistic. When I look back, giving myself a month for each would have

Jonathan Leto wrote: My work on a "TPF":http://perlfoundation.org/ grant to "improve documentation and test coverage of the Parrot Embedd API":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/11/2010q4-grant-proposal-improve.html is going well. I have added extensive examples of Parrot function and type signatures, as well beginning to increase test coverage of this subsystem. I am working in the "leto/embed_grant":https://github.com/parrot/parrot/commits/leto%2Fembed_grant branch on "Github":http://github.com/, which has already been merged to master just before the release of Parrot 2.11.0. My first merge

José and Bruno wrote: Our proposal listed as deliverables documentation detailing: Installation CookBook: Using Perlbal as a reverse proxy Using Perlbal as a load balancer Using Perlbal as a web server Managing and configuring Perlbal on-the-fly Writing Plugins Perlbal's Architecture at a glance We have documented: Installation Configuring Perlbal as a Reverse Proxy Configuring Perlbal as a Web Server Configuring Perlbal as a Load Balancer Configuring Perlbal as a Selector

José and Bruno write: During this month we have documented: Perlbal's management plugins system hooks As we're nearing the completion of the grant we are actively revising everything we wrote so far and we're also delving deeper into the code in search of aspects of Perlbal that should definitely be documented but that we did not originally accounted for These go from the high priority queuing system to debugging issues,

José and Bruno write: We have concluded the documentation on: installation procedures load balancing reverse proxy web server We have also listed several features we didn't contemplate originally but that we feel must be documented too, so we're going through them as well. We're one week late but since we accounted for a two weeks delay on the proposal, we're still good. The target date remains at December 6th. We