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  • Nominate heroes for the 2024 White Camel Awards Wed, 21-Feb-2024 by Makoto Nozaki

    We are seeking nominations for the 2024 White Camel Awards, which honor remarkable non-technical contributions in the Perl community. The Board will consider all nominations and will seek input both from the Advisory Board and the Perl Steering Council. To nominate an individual, kindly complete the form at https://forms.gle/xQczcsRkguvaBDBn8. In light of our community’s growing diversity, we kindly ask that the rationale for each nomination be articulated in a manner

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  • Invitation to YAPC::Hiroshima 2024 in Japan Mon, 20-Nov-2023 by Makoto Nozaki

    Get ready for an unforgettable experience at one of the biggest Perl events in the world YAPC::Hiroshima, organized by the Japan Perl Association. Event details Date: February 9-11, 2024 Venue: International Conference Center Hiroshima Website: https://yapcjapan.org/2024hiroshima/ Why attend YAPC::HIroshima 2024? Knowledge Exchange: Immerse yourself in Perl and non-Perl topics through three informative tracks of talks. They are expecting 300-400 attendees Networking Opportunities: Connect with fellow Perl enthusiasts and developers Keynotes

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  • Announcing the 2022 White Camel Award recipient Tue, 11-Jul-2023 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Awards

    We are pleased to announce Mohammad Sajid Anwar as the White Camel Award 2022 recipient. Mohammad runs the Perl weekly challenge, a coding competition where a group of Perl enthusiasts, from beginners to experts, come together and solve 2 tasks every week. So far the challenge has attracted more than 300 unique participants. Furthermore, Mohammad is one of two active editors of the Perl Weekly Newsletter where he discusses topics

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  • Outreachy: Looking for Perl/Raku project mentors Sat, 18-Feb-2023 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Outreachy

    As same as the past years, we are looking to participate in Outreachy May to August internships again this year. 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 contact me at makoto@perlfoundation.org. Note that mentors are expected to spend 5-10 hours per week during the program period.

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  • Nominate heroes for the 2022 White Camel Awards Mon, 03-Oct-2022 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Awards

    We're looking for nominations for the 2022 White Camel Awards that recognize significant non-technical achievement in the Perl community. Each year we recognize work in the broad categories of community, advocacy, and user groups. The Board will consider all nominations and will solicit feedback from the Advisory Board and the Perl Steering Council. To nominate someone, you can respond here with a name and your reasoning. As our community has

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  • Outreachy 2022 - Two Interns Selected Mon, 30-May-2022 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Outreachy

    I am pleased to announce we accepted two interns, Raquel and Yukti, to this year’s Outreachy internship at Open Food Facts. They will work with the two mentors, Stéphane Gigandet and Alex Garel, to improve the code quality of the Perl code of the Open Food Facts backend and website. This year they plan to focus on improving the Open Food Facts API and its tests and documentation, and refactor

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  • Outreachy participation - looking for mentors Sun, 13-Feb-2022 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Outreachy

    Last year The Perl Foundation participated in Outreachy May to August internships and it was successfully completed. We are looking to participate again this year. 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 contact me at makoto@perlfoundation.org. Note that mentors are expected to spend 5-10 hours per

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  • Season of Docs successful completion Fri, 24-Dec-2021 by Makoto Nozaki

    As previously announced, one of The Perl Foundation's initiatives for this year was to participate in Google Season of Docs. I'm pleased to announce that Khawar Latif Khan successfully completed the project. You can read further details at Khawar's Medium article Jason McIntosh's case study In addition, Khawar plans to share his experience at the next Perl and Raku Conference in Houston. I'd like to thank: Khawar for his quality

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  • Outreachy Perl internship 2021 successful completion Sat, 11-Sep-2021 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Outreachy

    I am pleased to announce that the Outreachy internship concluded successfully again in 2021. As previously announced, The Perl Foundation accepted Rosheen Naeem as an intern for 2021 to work on Open Food Facts. Stéphane Gigandet provided mentorship for her during the entire program. I would like to congratulate both for the successful program completion and express gratitude for their hard work. Rosheen reported that she completed the following during

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  • Outreachy Internship - Rosheen working on Open Food Facts Mon, 05-Jul-2021 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Outreachy

    I am pleased to announce we accepted an intern, Rosheen Naeem, to this year’s Outreachy internship at Open Food Facts. Rosheen will work with Stéphane Gigandet on a project to improve the quality of the Open Food Facts backend to make it more friendly to new developers until August 2021. Rosheen is a software engineer based in Pakistan. She has expertise in web development and technical writing. She brings with

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  • Outreachy 2021 projects published Mon, 29-Mar-2021 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Outreachy

    I am pleased to announce the following Perl Outreachy internship projects. Outreachy interns have about a month to make contributions and create a final application. Improve the ingredients analysis in Open Food Facts, the Wikipedia of food products Improve the Perl code quality of Open Food Facts These two projects are mentored by Stéphane Gigandet and sponsored by The Perl Foundation. Additionally, Outreachy has one more Perl project sponsored by

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  • Outreachy participation - looking for mentors Sat, 20-Feb-2021 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Outreachy

    Last year The Perl Foundation participated in Outreachy May to August internships and it was successfully completed. We are looking to participate again this year. 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 our internal submission process

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  • TPF Meeting Minutes for December 2020 Sun, 31-Jan-2021 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Meetings

    TPF Board members and the community leaders meet every month and here are the minutes from the December 2020 meeting. Part 1 Community Attendees Board: Dave Rolsky, Stuart Mackintosh, Ricardo Signes, Curtis Poe, Dan Wright Community leaders: Todd Rinaldo, JJ Merelo, Daniel Sockwell, Jason Crome, Andrew Solomon, Mark Keating, Alex Beamish, Nigel Hamilton Admin: Nic Evans Main session Marketing, Mark Keating Had conversations with Gary Beckwith. He has lots to

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  • Perl Core Development Fund Tue, 22-Dec-2020 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Grants

    I am pleased to announce the launch of the Perl Core Development Fund. Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund was launched in 2008 to support the development of the Perl programming language. Since then, we have awarded USD 670,000. With the version change of the language, we will close the Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund and launch the Perl Core Development Fund. For those who would like to apply for grants,

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  • TPF Meeting Minutes for October 2020 Thu, 19-Nov-2020 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Meetings

    TPF Board members and the community leaders meet every month and here are the minutes from the October 2020 meeting. Part 1 Community Attendees Board: Stuart Mackintosh, Peter Krawczyk, Dan Wright, Dave Rolsky, Ricardo Signes, Makoto Nozaki Leaders: Jason Crome, Samantha McVey, Alex Beamish, Sawyer X, Todd Rinaldo, Matthias Bloch Admin: Nic Evans Confirmed absence: Mark Keating, Curtis Poe Grants One grant approved needs funding

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  • Raku Development Fund Sun, 06-Sep-2020 by Makoto Nozaki

    I am pleased to announce the launch of the Raku Development Fund. Perl 6 Development Fund was launched in 2015 to support the development of the Perl 6 programming language. Since then, we have awarded more than USD 100,000. With the rename of the language, we will close the Perl 6 Development Fund and launch the Raku Development Fund. For these who would like to apply for grants, please take

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  • Outreachy internship successful completion Sat, 15-Aug-2020 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Outreachy

    I am pleased to announce that the Outreachy internship concluded successfully. As previously announced, The Perl Foundation accepted Areesha Tariq as an intern for this year’s internship to work on Open Food Facts. Stéphane Gigandet provided mentorship for her during the entire program. I would like to congratulate both for the successful program completion and express gratitude for their hard work. During the internship, Areesha completed the followings: Templatization of

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  • TPF Board Meeting Minutes for July 2020 Thu, 30-Jul-2020 by Makoto Nozaki

    TPF Board members meet every month and here are the minutes from the July 2020 meeting. Attendees Stuart J Mackintosh Dan Wright Dave Rolsky Curtis "Ovid" Poe Pete Krawczyk Ricardo Signes Makoto Nozaki Nic Evans Samantha McVey TPRC CAT debrief Structure CAT report that the CAT worked very well for TPRC The process was well defined. The training was effective and it helped the role play created confidence Future opportunity:

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  • TPF Board Meeting Minutes for June 2020 Tue, 14-Jul-2020 by Makoto Nozaki

    TPF Board members meet every month and here are the minutes from the June 2020 meeting. Attendees Stuart Mackintosh Dan Wright Makoto Nozaki Dave Rolsky Curtis Poe Ricardo Signes Nic Evans CAT training discussion Discussed a recent training conducted for CAT members and other TPF volunteers Team positively received session Especially procedure and practice Useful to have regular session,

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  • TPF Board Meeting Minutes for April 2020 Tue, 14-Jul-2020 by Makoto Nozaki

    TPF Board members meet every month and here are the minutes from the April 2020 meeting.

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  • Outreachy Intern announced - Areesha working on Open Food Facts Tue, 12-May-2020 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Outreachy

    I am pleased to announce we accepted an intern, Areesha Tariq, to this year’s Outreachy internship at Open Food Facts. Areesha will work with Stéphane Gigandet on a project to improve the code quality of the Perl backend of Open Food Facts until August 2020. Areesha is a Software Engineering student doing her bachelor’s from the National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan. She is mostly focused on web

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  • Perl Mongers Meeting Online Sat, 04-Apr-2020 by Makoto Nozaki

    Some Perl Mongers groups started online meetings. It's unfortunate that they can't meet in person, however this means anybody can join their meetings globally. Charlotte Perl Mongers just had their online meeting on March 25th. Jason Crome, the organizer, told us that there was even an attendee from Rome. And they plan to do it indefinitely. NY Perl Mongers is going to hold their first online meeting on April 14th.

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  • TPF Board Meeting Minutes for March 2020 Tue, 31-Mar-2020 by Makoto Nozaki

    TPF Board members meet every month and here is minutes for March 2020 meeting. Attendees TPCiH Team Todd Rinaldo Dawn Wallis Lena Hand TPF Admin Nic Evans Board Stuart Mackintosh Curtis Poe Dave Rolsky Dan Wright Ricardo Signes Pete Krawczyk Makoto Nozaki TPCiH Note This discussion was held a few days before the decision

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  • Outreachy project published Sat, 29-Feb-2020 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Outreachy

    I am pleased to announce our project in Outreachy. Currently we are looking for an intern. Project registration: Improve the code quality of the Perl backend of Open Food Facts Project Description Improve the code quality of the Perl backend of Open Food Facts Open Food Facts is a Wikipedia for food products: a collaborative database of food products, with a backend written in Perl. Over the last 8 years,

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  • TPF Board Meeting Minutes for February 2020 Sat, 29-Feb-2020 by Makoto Nozaki

    TPF Board members meet every month and here is minutes for February 2020 meeting. Attendees Stuart J Mackintosh Pete Krawczyk Dave Rolsky Dan Wright Makoto Nozaki Items discussed FOSDEM 2020 debrief The TPF stand was successful. Thank you volunteers We intend to apply for a stand and devroom in 2021 TPF CAT progress TPC::NA 2020 prep TPC::NA 2021 planning Fundraising Raku trademark

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  • TPF Board Meeting Minutes for January 2020 Thu, 30-Jan-2020 by Makoto Nozaki

    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

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  • Taking Part in Outreachy Wed, 22-Jan-2020 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Outreachy

    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

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  • European Perl Conference 2019 Tue, 11-Jun-2019 by Makoto Nozaki

    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.

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  • TPF to participate in Google Season of Docs Sun, 21-Apr-2019 by Makoto Nozaki

    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

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  • TPF to participates in Google Summer of Code 2019 as a mentor organization Wed, 27-Feb-2019 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: GSoC

    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,

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  • Request for Comments: Dave Rolsky's class at TPC 2019 Mon, 11-Feb-2019 by Makoto Nozaki

    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

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  • Google Summer of Code 2019 Participation Wed, 23-Jan-2019 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: GSoC

    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

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  • Grant Extension Approved: Jonathan Worthington's Perl 6 Performance and Reliability Engineering grant Sat, 19-Jan-2019 by Makoto Nozaki

    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

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  • Perl 5 Core Grants Updates - Approval etc Tue, 24-Jul-2018 by Makoto Nozaki

    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.

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  • Public nomination/election process of TPF board members Tue, 27-Feb-2018 by Makoto Nozaki

    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

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  • Maintaining the Perl 5 Core (Dave Mitchell): Grant Report for Jan 2018 Tue, 13-Feb-2018 by Makoto Nozaki

    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

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  • Maintaining Perl 5 (Tony Cook): January 2018 Report Mon, 12-Feb-2018 by Makoto Nozaki

    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

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  • Grant Extension Approved: Jonathan Worthington's Perl 6 Performance and Reliability Engineering grant Mon, 12-Feb-2018 by Makoto Nozaki

    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

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  • Maintaining the Perl 5 Core (Zefram): Grant Report for Jan 2017 Thu, 08-Feb-2018 by Makoto Nozaki

    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

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  • Maintaining Perl 5 (Tony Cook): December 2017 Report Wed, 07-Feb-2018 by Makoto Nozaki

    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

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  • Grant Extension Request: Perl 6 Performance and Reliability Engineering (Jonathan Worthington) Tue, 23-Jan-2018 by Makoto Nozaki

    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

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  • Maintaining the Perl 5 Core (Zefram): Grant Report for Dec 2017 Wed, 17-Jan-2018 by Makoto Nozaki

    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,

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  • Maintaining Perl 5 (Tony Cook): November 2017 Report Mon, 15-Jan-2018 by Makoto Nozaki

    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,

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  • Maintaining the Perl 5 Core (Dave Mitchell): Grant Report for Dec 2017 Fri, 05-Jan-2018 by Makoto Nozaki

    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

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  • Maintaining the Perl 5 Core (Dave Mitchell): Grant Report for Nov 2017 Sun, 10-Dec-2017 by Makoto Nozaki

    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

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  • Maintaining the Perl 5 Core (Zefram): Grant Report for Nov 2017 Mon, 04-Dec-2017 by Makoto Nozaki

    This is the first report from Zefram on his Perl 5 grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. The hours that I have worked in 2017-11 pursuant to my TPF core maintenance grant are as follows. 30h25m smartmatch 15h15m state 12h08m review tickets 9h54m review mail 8h26m no warnings "module name" 3h46m negative-size-param in

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  • TPF to start public nomination/election process of board members Tue, 28-Nov-2017 by Makoto Nozaki

    The Perl Foundation is a non-profit, 501 organization based in the United States. Currently its board of directors has seven members and TPF plans to 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. The below is proposed process of nomination and election of new board members, which will

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  • Maintaining the Perl 5 Core (Dave Mitchell): Grant Report for Sep/Oct 2017 Thu, 23-Nov-2017 by Makoto Nozaki

    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 grant work for the last two months, as I was mainly working on OP_MULTICONCAT, which was funded by Booking.com. That's also why there's been a dearth of weekly reports. The main thing I did was making a few

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  • Grant Extension Approved: Tony Cook's maintaining Perl 5 Grant Mon, 13-Nov-2017 by Makoto Nozaki

    Tony Cook recently requested an extension of his Maintaining the 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 400 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

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  • Maintaining Perl 5 (Tony Cook): October 2017 Report Sun, 12-Nov-2017 by Makoto Nozaki

    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 23 tickets were reviewed, and 7 patches were applied 0.33 #122807 review discussion 0.45 #124349 review discussion and apply patch 0.40 #125619 review discussion, research, briefly comment 0.25 #125760 review discussion, add to 5.30 blockers for make

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  • Maintaining Perl 5 (Tony Cook): Grant Report for September 2017 Wed, 25-Oct-2017 by Makoto Nozaki

    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

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  • Grant Extension Request: Maintaining the Perl 5 (Tony Cook) Sat, 21-Oct-2017 by Makoto Nozaki

    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

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  • Maintaining the Perl 5 Core (Dave Mitchell): Grant Report for August 2017 Tue, 12-Sep-2017 by Makoto Nozaki

    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

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  • Maintaining Perl 5 (Tony Cook): Grant Report for August 2017 Tue, 12-Sep-2017 by Makoto Nozaki

    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

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  • Maintaining Perl 5 (Tony Cook): Grant Report for July 2017 Wed, 06-Sep-2017 by Makoto Nozaki

    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,

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  • Maintaining the Perl 5 Core (Dave Mitchell): Grant Report for June 2017 Wed, 06-Sep-2017 by Makoto Nozaki

    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

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  • Maintaining Perl 5 (Tony Cook): Grant Report for May/June 2017 Fri, 04-Aug-2017 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Grants

    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

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  • Grant Extension Approved: Dave Mitchell Perl 5 Core Thu, 03-Aug-2017 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Grants

    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

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  • Perl 5 Core Grant Approved: Zefram maintaining the Perl 5 Core Wed, 02-Aug-2017 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Grants

    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.

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  • Grant Extension Approved: Perl 6 Performance and Reliability Engineering Mon, 31-Jul-2017 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Grants

    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.

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  • brian d foy's travel grant is completed Sun, 30-Jul-2017 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Grants

    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

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  • Perl 6 Travel Grant Approved Tue, 04-Jul-2017 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Grants

    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.

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  • Grant Extension Request: Perl 6 Performance and Reliability Engineering Tue, 13-Jun-2017 by Makoto Nozaki

    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

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  • Grant Extension Request: Maintaining the Perl 5 Core Tue, 13-Jun-2017 by Makoto Nozaki

    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

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  • Maintaining the Perl 5 Core: May 2017 report Wed, 07-Jun-2017 by Makoto Nozaki

    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

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  • Perl 5 Core Grant Proposal: Zefram maintaining the Perl 5 core Sun, 04-Jun-2017 by Makoto Nozaki

    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,

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  • Perl 6 Travel Grant Proposal Sun, 04-Jun-2017 by Makoto Nozaki

    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

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  • Maintaining the Perl 5 Core: April 2017 report Sun, 14-May-2017 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Grants

    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

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  • Perl 6 Performance and Reliability Engineering: Grant Report Sat, 22-Apr-2017 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Grants

    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

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  • Grant Extension Request: Maintaining the Perl 5 Thu, 20-Apr-2017 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Grants

    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

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  • Maintaining the Perl 5 Core: March 2017 report Thu, 06-Apr-2017 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Grants

    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

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  • Maintaining the Perl 5 Core: February 2017 report Mon, 13-Mar-2017 by Makoto Nozaki

    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

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  • Maintaining Perl 5: Grant Report for January 2017 Wed, 22-Feb-2017 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Grants

    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,

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  • Maintaining the Perl 5 Core: January 2017 report Tue, 07-Feb-2017 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Grants

    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

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  • January 2017 Grant Votes Tue, 31-Jan-2017 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Grants

    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

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  • Dave Mitchell's Grant Extended Sun, 29-Jan-2017 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Grants

    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.

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  • Grants Committee needs a new member Wed, 25-Jan-2017 by Makoto Nozaki

    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>

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  • Maintaining Perl 5: Grant Report for December 2016 Wed, 25-Jan-2017 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Grants

    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

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  • Grant Proposal: Standardization, Test Coverage, and Documentation of Perl 6 I/O Routines Tue, 17-Jan-2017 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Grants

    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

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  • Maintaining the Perl 5 Core: December 2016 report Tue, 17-Jan-2017 by Makoto Nozaki

    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

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  • Grant Extension Request: Maintaining the Perl 5 Core Tue, 10-Jan-2017 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Grants

    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

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  • Maintaining the Perl 5 Core: October / November 2016 report Mon, 09-Jan-2017 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Grants

    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;

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  • TPF Grant Nov/Dec 2016 Round Results Mon, 09-Jan-2017 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Grants

    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

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  • Call For Grant Proposals (Jan 2017 Round) Thu, 05-Jan-2017 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Grants

    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

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  • TPF 2016Q4 Activity Report Tue, 27-Dec-2016 by Makoto Nozaki

    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:

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  • Maintaining Perl 5: Grant Report for November 2016 Wed, 14-Dec-2016 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Grants

    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

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  • Maintaining Perl 5: Grant Report for October 2016 Sat, 10-Dec-2016 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Grants

    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

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  • Grant Proposal: Learning Perl 6, a book from O'Reilly Media Tue, 06-Dec-2016 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Grants

    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

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  • Call For Grant Proposals (Nov 2016 Round) Mon, 07-Nov-2016 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Grants

    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

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  • Call For Grant Proposals (Sep 2016 Round) Sun, 11-Sep-2016 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Grants

    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

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  • Call For Grant Proposals (July 2016 Round) Sat, 02-Jul-2016 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Grants

    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

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  • Call For Grant Proposals (May 2016 Round) Mon, 02-May-2016 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Grants

    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

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  • Mar/Apr 2016 Grant Votes Wed, 20-Apr-2016 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Grants

    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

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  • Grant Proposal: Test2 Manual Tue, 29-Mar-2016 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Grants

    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:

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  • Call For Grant Proposals (March 2016 Round) Mon, 07-Mar-2016 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Grants

    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

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  • Jan/Feb 2016 Grant Votes Thu, 25-Feb-2016 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Grants

    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

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  • Grant Proposal: RPerl User Documentation, Part 2 Mon, 08-Feb-2016 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Grants

    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

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  • New site, same URL Sat, 23-Jan-2016 by Makoto Nozaki

    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

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  • Call For Grant Proposals (January 2016 Round) Sat, 02-Jan-2016 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Grants

    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

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  • Grants Committee Changes, December 2015 Thu, 24-Dec-2015 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Grants

    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

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