Late this evening we flipped the switch and The Perl Foundation News website (http://news.perlfoundation.org) no longer lives at its long time, MoveableType-based home, and is now a brand new system based on Rapi::Blog, which is a relatively new blogging platform, based on RapidApp, written in Perl, open-source and …

Our nominee to join The Perl Foundation’s Board of Directors as Treasurer is Pete Krawczyk. Prior to making a final decision, our standard policy includes a public comment period. The community is invited to post public feedback or ask questions of Pete on this blog post. We will wait a minimum of two weeks prior to …

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the September/October 2019 round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on the proposal. Due to my delay in posting this, I'm extending the comment period. Please review the proposal below and …

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 54 tickets were reviewed, and 9 patches were applied [Hours] [Activity] 0.13 #118551 track down fix and close 1.10 #124256 rebase, testing, apply to blead 0.12 …

While a number of intended deliverables for Bart's grant remain unmet, he's made significant contributions to the expression backend and has identified unexpected roadblocks to the remaining tasks (as outlined in previous reports) that should yield to additional preparatory work. In light of this, the Grants Committee …

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 30 tickets were reviewed, and 8 patches were applied [Hours] [Activity] 3.43 #120841 document ERRSV, CLEAR_ERRSV(), and the errno handling functions for internal …

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 40 tickets were reviewed, and 18 patches were applied [Hours] [Activity] 11.77 #122112 review, testing, comment #122112 research, set up VM #122112 try to diagnose …

There has been much discussion about the Perl Conference's Standards of Conduct (SoC) Committee's decision to delist a video from the 2019 Perl Conference videos. We would like to provide some additional context to help explain this decision. This incident has been new to us from the beginning because it happened after …

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 30 tickets were reviewed, and 5 patches were applied [Hours] [Activity] 0.20 #121783 comment 7.98 #122112 re-work to save the pid instead of the fd #122112 more …

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the May/June 2019 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 June 14th, 2019. The Committee members will start the voting …