Since their third report on migrating blogs.perl.org, Evozon have been working hard to produce a public beta site. This beta site lets you, the community, test and evaluate the platform. If you are a regular user of blogs.perl.org, here's a great opportunity to help us make the release candidate the best version possible. As outlined in the original grant proposal, the site provides the following: features from the exisiting

Although we have no new progress reports for the blogs.perl.org migration since the third one, a development version of the site is available for testing at http://blogsperlorg.pearlbee.org/. If you use the existing site, please check that the new beta site works for you. Please leave a comment below if you have helpful suggestions for how to improve the new site. Make sure your suggestions fall within the

Since our last report on the grant to revitalise blogs.perl.org, Amalia writes that Evozon have completed work on the following: 1. Homepage, accommodating latest blog posts 2. At this point, header is reflecting whether the user is logged in or not 3. Ability to register to the website 4. Ability to login to the website, go to admin, see posts 5. Ability to switch between

Evozon have been busy working on their grant to improve blogs.perl.org Since our first progress report they have worked hard analysing the project's requirements and implementing them in Jeff's public GitHub repository The project runs PearlBee using Docker and Carton. So far, the new system supports the following: RSS export Markdown editing Data migration from the old site ElasticSearch An inproved user interface Home page posts Per-user posts User profile

Some time ago, The Perl Foundation awarded a grant to "improve blogs.perl.org":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/07/grant-proposal-revitalize-blog.html. Unfortunately, soon afterwards Jeff, the grant's recipient "ended up in hospital":http://blogs.perl.org/users/drforr/2015/09/post-yapc-update.html at YAPC::Europe. Fortunately, Jeff is recovering and has started work on the project with Amalia. They expect to have a more detailed plan for the project soon. Current work includes comparing the existing site's features to those Pearlbee offers, as well as database migration.

I am pleased to announce that The Perl Foundation's Grants Committee has voted to treat Taiki Kawakami's grant to work on Perl::Lint as successfully completed. Since our most recent report Taiki has fixed a small bug. To help fund more work like this, please donate to TPF's grants fund

It's a while since our last report on Perl::Lint but Taiki has made considerable progress since then, releasing 3 new versions of this Perl source code analyser. Perl::Lint doesn't yet support everything described in Taiki's original proposal for this TPF grant as it needs a few small improvements to match Perl::Critic. Despite this, Taiki has written a fast alternative to Perl::Critic that's easy to use, well documented and now has

Last week Taiki released "version 0.11 of Perl::Lint":https://metacpan.org/release/MOZNION/Perl-Lint-0.11 to CPAN. This new version fixes several bugs reported after "Perl::Lint's release":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2014/11/perllint-released.html in November. Taiki has not achieved everything outlined in his "grant proposal":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2014/03/grant-proposal-perllint---yet.html: implementing some of Perl::Lint's policies has been much harder than expected. However, Perl::Lint provides a useful tool for analysing Perl source code. So, The Perl Foundation's grants committee would like to treat this grant as successfully completed soon.

Since "our last report":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2014/09/more-perllint-progress-2.html, Taiki has made even more progress on Perl::Lint, a static analyser for Perl 5. Taiki has now "released a usable version of this code to CPAN":https://metacpan.org/release/Perl-Lint that improves on the development version mentioned in our previous report. So, now would be a great time to install Perl::Lint using your favourite CPAN client, run your code through Perl::Lint and let us know what you think. If you

It's a while since I "reported":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2014/07/perllint-progress.html on "Taiki Kawakami's grant to work on Perl::Lint":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2014/03/grant-proposal-perllint---yet.html, a static analyser for Perl 5. Taiki continues to work on Perl::Lint actively: you can track his progress in "the project's public Github repository":https://github.com/moznion/Perl-Lint. Recently he has implemented more policy checks and added filters to exclude policies. The impressive "Perl::Lint playground":http://perl-lint.moznion.net/ lets you experiment with the module from within your Web browser and the "preview release

During June, Taiki Kawakami continued work on "his grant to write Perl::Lint, a static analyzer for Perl 5":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2014/03/grant-proposal-perllint---yet.html. Taiki has implemented more than half the policies and has almost finished work representing complex structures such as block scope. If you would like to see this work in progress, please take a look at the project's "public GitHub repository":https://github.com/moznion/Perl-Lint or attend "Taki's talk about Perl::Lint at YAPC::Asia":http://yapcasia.org/2014/talk/show/6e5b28f4-0191-11e4-b7e8-e4a96aeab6a4. If you have any

Taiki Kawakami started work on "his Perl::Lint grant":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2014/03/grant-proposal-perllint---yet.html in May. You can track his work in a "public repository":https://github.com/moznion/Perl-Lint at Github. Encouragingly, Taiki reports that he has already completed a third of his work.

It's over a year since my "last update":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/11/perl-6-tablets-first-progress.html here on Herbert Breunung's "Perl 6 Tablets":http://tablets.perl6.org/. Work continues on this project, however, and tablets 2 to 4 on Perl 6's "basic syntax":http://tablets.perl6.org/tablet-2-basic-syntax.html, "variables":http://tablets.perl6.org/tablet-3-variables.html and "operators":http://tablets.perl6.org/tablet-4-operators.html have progressed. The tablets have moved to their own site at "http://tablets.perl6.org/":http://tablets.perl6.org/ so please use this new address when referencing them. Herbert has written "three":http://blogs.perl.org/users/lichtkind/2012/04/a-real-grant-report.html "blog":http://blogs.perl.org/users/lichtkind/2012/04/perl-6-tablets-what-happened-this-week.html "posts":http://blogs.perl.org/users/lichtkind/2012/04/how-perl-documentation-could-look-like.html about his recent work. His "perl blog":http://blogs.perl.org/users/lichtkind/ will keep

In November, I wrote a progress report about work beginning on the Perl 6 Tablets grant. These tablets aim to offer both an in-depth tutorial and reference for Perl 6 Herbert Breunung, the tablets' author, has done considerable work since then on the overall structure of this documentation as well as describing particular details of the Perl 6 language. The tablets have reached a stage where we welcome feedback from

In August 2010, The Perl Foundation awarded Herbert Breunung a grant to work on the Perl 6 tablets a tutorial and reference for Perl 6. You can view Herbert's progress at any time from the Perl 6 Tablets section of the Perl 6 Wiki. Herbert's work has started slowly, but he has completed the tablet number two and plans to work on tablets one and three in parallel over the