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 [Hours] [Activity] 13.82 #122490 (sec) more merge conflicts #122490 (sec) more merge conflicts, track down …

(Graphics credit to Leonardo Maia.) Thanks to The Perl Foundation and our beloved sponsors, a large portion of the critical contributors to the Perl 5 Porters (p5p), the core group of Perl 5 developers, were able to get together on November 11th, 2016 at the Booking.com headquarters in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, for …

Will Braswell has submitted his final report (below) on his grant RPerl User Documentation, Part 2. The Grants Committee welcomes comments from the community before it votes on completion of the grant. MAJ RPerl User Documentation, Part 2, Final Report Deliverables Inch-stones Completeness Criteria RPerl User …

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 …

The Perl Foundation received the following report from Tony Cook. Approximately 31 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 8 patches were applied. [Hours] [Activity] 0.37 #116945 review and comment #116945 try to review branch, comment 2.05 #122112 research, review code 3.66 #123638 (sec) work on patch, testing #123638 …

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 …

Tony Cook writes: Approximately 42 tickets were reviewed, and 6 patches were applied. | Hours | Activity | | 0.93 | %zu on HP-UX issue | | 3.22 | #123981 updates, testing, comment | | 5.19 | #126482 debugging | | | #126482 bisect, review changes | | | #126482 more debugging, comment | | 12.51 | #127663 more tests, code …

Jonathan Worthington writes: I have completed the initial 200 hours awarded under my "Perl 6 performance and reliability engineering grant":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2016/02/grant-proposal-perl-6-performa.html. This report summarizes what has been achieved in this time. I have also written a number of …

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 …

Tony has supplied the second report for his "Maintaining Perl 5":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2013/05/grant-application-maintaining.html grant, which was recently successfully "extended":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2016/02/maintaining-perl-5---grant-ext-1.html. Tony Cook writes: Approximately …