• Maintaining Perl (Tony Cook) September 2024 Sun, 17-Nov-2024 by alh

    Tony writes: 2024/09/02 Monday 0.12 #22547 comment 0.13 #21246 review and comment 1.58 #22415 research and comment 0.22 #22541 review and approve 0.20 #22125 comment 0.13 #22539 review and approve 0.43 #22380 apply to blead, perldelta 0.93 #22552 review and approve with comment 3.74 2024/09/03 Tuesday 0.77 #22563 review, research and approve 2.22 #22542 debugging, research and comment

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  • Maintaining Perl 5 Core (Dave Mitchell): October 2024 Sun, 17-Nov-2024 by alh

    Dave writes: This is my monthly report on work done during October 2024 covered by my TPF perl core maintenance grant. I spent most of last month continuing to do various bits of code refactoring and test-adding on Extutils::ParseXS, as a precursor to adding reference-counted stack abilities to XS. SUMMARY: 9:23 process p5p mailbox 47:46 refactor Extutils::ParseXS Total: 57:09

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  • Maintaining Perl (Tony Cook) August 2024 Sun, 17-Nov-2024 by alh

    Tony writes: 2024/08/01 Thursday 0.42 #22450 review updates, discussion, approve with comment 0.47 #22451 review, testing and approve 0.17 #22436 review and approve with comment 0.62 #22441 review and comment 1.28 #21524 provide patches to Promise-ES6 1.20 #1420/#19124 more review, cleanup, push for CI 4.16 2024/08/05 Monday 0.10 #22444 no follow-up discussion, recheck and approve 0.37 #20317 research and comment

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  • PEVANS Core Perl 5: Grant Report for October 2024 Sun, 17-Nov-2024 by alh

    Paul writes: Hours: 4 meta module sub signature queries and bugfixes https://metacpan.org/release/PEVANS/meta-0.012/source/Changes 5 Optimisations for foreach on builtin::indexed https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/22641 5 Beginnings of improvements to subroutine signatures in core. Experiment with the idea of no-snails and prepare for implementing named parameters as per PPC0024. https://github.com/leonerd/perl5/tree/faster-signatures Total: 14 hours

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  • Dancer2 Documentation Grant Report Fri, 08-Nov-2024 by Saif Ahmed

    Jason has submitted a midway report of his Dancer 2 Documentation project. While the project is undoubtedly an important piece of work, his report is also a perfect example of how grants (or indeed any project) should be done. There is a professional demonstration of discipline, identifying goals, challenges, and success.

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  • Perl and Raku Conference 2025 News Sun, 03-Nov-2024 by D Ruth Holloway

    The conference organizing team is excited to present details of the 2025 Perl and Raku Conference, to be held June 27-29 in Greenville, SC. Registration for the conference will open soon, but you can start planning now to attend. We'd love to see you in the Palmetto State next summer! Streamlined conference, new schedule! The Perl and Raku Conference 2025 is changing things up a little. We're streamlining the conference

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  • Maintaining Perl 5 Core (Dave Mitchell): September 2024 Wed, 09-Oct-2024 by alh

    Dave writes: This is my monthly report on work done during September 2024 covered by my TPF perl core maintenance grant. I spent most of last month continuing to do various bits of code refactoring and test-adding on Extutils::ParseXS, as a precursor to adding reference-counted stack abilities to XS. SUMMARY: 5:02 process p5p mailbox 2:06 reduce smoke failures 54:15 refactor Extutils::ParseXS Total: 61:23 TOTAL

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  • Why The Perl and Raku Foundation Supports The Open Source Pledge Tue, 08-Oct-2024 by Stuart J Mackintosh

    The Open Source Pledge We at The Perl and Raku Foundation are supporting the Open Source Pledge initiative. The Open Source Pledge consists of companies with a shared commitment to paying the maintainers of the open source software they consume, therefore aims to help address sustainability challenges facing the Open Source community. The Sustainability Challenge in OSS Open source software is the backbone of much of today’s technology, but it

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  • PEVANS Core Perl 5: Grant Report for August - September 2024 Fri, 04-Oct-2024 by alh

    Paul writes: With the 5.40 release well out of the way, and freed from my PSC commitments, I managed to find a bit more time this month to actually write some useful code. Hours: 2 Improvements to op_dump for custom operators https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/22572 1 Improvements toop_dump on existing UNOP_AUX operators https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/22573 11 Additions to meta module: various "list"-type methods, set_prototype set_subname on metasubroutines, add_named_sub helper method, is_class is_method

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  • Thank you for the fundraising at YAPC::Hiroshima in Japan Fri, 04-Oct-2024 by Makoto Nozaki

    The Japan Perl Association made a generous donation to The Perl and Raku Foundation following their fundraising activity at YAPC::Hiroshima Here is a thank you message from Olaf Adler: Japanese translation below: 日本語抄訳 こんにちは。Olaf Alderと申します。The Perl Foundationで後援者様向け広報の担当をしています。今日は日本のPerlコミュニティの皆様に感謝の意を表したく、ご連絡差し上げました。 Japan Perl AssociationとYAPC::Japanの皆様には、長年にわたるご支援を誠に「ありがとう」ございます。特に先日のYAPC::Hiroshimaの大盛況をお祝い申し上げます。写真で見た酒樽募金箱は印象的で、今後、私は日本酒を飲むたびにこのイベントを思い出すでしょう。 YAPCの継続的な成功は素晴らしいです。日本チームの秘訣を世界に伝えてほしいと願っています。私たちも多くを学びたいと思います。 Japan Perl AssociationはThe Perl Foundationの大切なパートナーです。今後とも協力し、Perlの発展に努めましょう。YAPC::Hakodateの盛会をお祈りしています。ありがとうございます!

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  • Maintaining Perl 5 Core (Dave Mitchell): August 2024 Sat, 14-Sep-2024 by alh

    Dave writes: This is my monthly report on work done during August 2024 covered by my TPF perl core maintenance grant. I spent most of last month doing various bits of code refactoring on Extutils::ParseXS, as a precursor to adding reference-counted stack abilities to XS. The code for Extutils::ParseXS is exceedingly unpleasant, with for example the main method, process_file being over 1700 lines of code. It's a random mishmash

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  • TPRC 2024 after action report Wed, 11-Sep-2024 by Amber Krawczyk

    TPRC 2024 was held in Las Vegas. The foundation has gathered feedback from the community/conference data and composed the following after action report. We look forward to seeing everyone next year in Greenville, SC.

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  • Dates and location have been set for TPRC 2025! Mon, 09-Sep-2024 by D Ruth Holloway

    For the first time in the conference's history, we're going to Greenville, South Carolina! Next year's conference will be held at the Holiday Inn Express Suites on Woodruff Rd on June 27-29, 2025. The format will a little different from recent conferences--Friday will be dedicated to a small class session, and the conference will be two tracks, Saturday and Sunday. Mark your calendars now! The call for papers and hotel

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  • Maintaining Perl 5 Core (Dave Mitchell): July 2024 Mon, 19-Aug-2024 by alh

    Dave writes: This is my monthly report on work done during July 2024 covered by my TPF perl core maintenance grant. I spent most of last month continuing to work on understanding XS and improving its documentation, as a precursor to adding reference-counted stack abilities to XS. I finished working through the Extutils::ParseXS module's code line line trying to understand it. SUMMARY: 5:24 process p5p mailbox 3:01 reduce smoke failures

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  • PEVANS Core Perl 5: Grant Report for July 2024 Mon, 19-Aug-2024 by alh

    Paul writes: July ended up being a rush to finish some commercial work I had going elsewhere, but I did manage a few core commits. Nothing directly user-visible but they add some safety for -DDEBUGGING builds that often helps track down mismatched pointers when making API calls and can help find a lot of subtle bugs. Hours: 4 Pointer cast safety improvements https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/22416 https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/22417 https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/22421 Total: 4 hours

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