Will reports on the completion of Chapter 2 of Learning RPerl: "Initial work on chapter 2 of Learning RPerl is finally finished! Hopefully chapters 3 and 4 will not take quite so long to complete. :-) All of the following sections have now been published: Section 2.4: Scalar Variables Section 2.4.1: Choosing Good …

Will Braswell continues his unrestricted production of R(estricted)-Perl documentation: "May was yet another busy month for Learning RPerl, section 2.3.6 was huge so I split out all the command-line arguments into a new appendix B. We now have documentation for all of RPerl's 15 phases of operation, 27 …

Tony Cook writes: Approximately 48 tickets were reviewed, and 7 patches were applied |Hours | Activity | | 1.57 | investigate new ipsysv.t failures on darwin, create cpan | | | #112827, fix in blead, #p5p unicode string behaviour | | | discussion | | 4.60 | #122287 testing | | | #122287 work on a patch to …

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 …

Tony Cook writes: Approximately 43 tickets were reviewed, and 11 patches were applied | Hours | Activity | | 2.38 | #123737 testing, apply to blead | | | #123737 testing, produce a patch and comment | | | #123737 re-test, look for similar no_op() issues, push to blead | | 2.15 | #123788 re-check patch, testing | | | …

We have received the following Perl 6 Ian Hague Grant Application. Before we vote on this proposal we would like to have a period of community consultation for 10 days. Please leave feedback in the comments or if you prefer send email with your comments to karen at perlfoundation.org. Name: Paweł Murias Project Title: …

Tony Cook writes: Approximately 57 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 12 patches were applied. | Hours | Activity | | 0.83 | #120826 re-work documentation patch | | | #120826 re-test, apply to blead, close | | 4.99 | #120903 first pass over documentation update | | | #120903 more documentation, testing, comment …

Tony Cook writes: Approximately 37 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 2 patches were applied. bulk88's patch in [perl #123867] adds support for building perl in parallel on Win32 using dmake's -P option. I've spent some time trying to improve it, but ended up running into limitations in dmake, in particular it …

We have received the following Hague Grant application from Bart Wiegmans. Before we vote on this proposal we would like to have a period of community consultation for 10 days. Please leave feedback in the comments or if you prefer send email with your comments to karen at perlfoundation.org. Name: Bart Wiegmans …

Since the beginning of the year, some smaller steps had been made and things are looking good! First of all the the database schema had been changed to provide some additional things on request of some organisers. Now I realise that I also need to make new versions of the Act-out-of-the-Box vagrant-image once in a …