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Beginning this week, we're expanding on this meeting, and turning it into the "Community Roundtable." Join us this Friday, 21 March, at 1730 UTC, via Zoom. Why Should I Attend? We hear it all the time </p> ... <a href="/post/tprf-community-roundtable">read more</a> </td> </tr></table> </div> </li> <li> <a href="/post/maintaining_perl_tonyc_january_2025">Maintaining Perl (Tony Cook) January 2025</a> <i style="padding-left:3px;opacity:0.6;font-size:.9em;"> Sun, 16-Mar-2025 <span style="font-size:.8em;">by <a href="/list?username=alh">alh</a></span> </i> <div style="font-size:0.7em;padding: 5px 0px 15px 5px;"> <table><tr> <td style="width:85px; vertical-align:top; padding-right:15px;"> <img src="_ra-rel-mnt_/simplecas/fetch_content/7f97282811f6a9f862d7e659c79e5462cc195d94/grant-funding.png" style="max-width:100%;max-height:100%;" /> </td> <td> <p>Tony writes: 2025/01/06 Monday 0.67 #22695 testing, follow-up 0.43 github notifications 0.75 #22804 research and comment 0.22 #22824 research and comment 1.08 #22882 research and comment 1.18 #22883 review discussion, work on test code 4.33 2025/01/07 Tuesday 0.25 #22888 testing and comment 0.08 #22868 briefly comment 0.33 #22864 review and approve 0.20 #22865 review and approve 0.38 #22889 </p> ... <a href="/post/maintaining_perl_tonyc_january_2025">read more</a> </td> </tr></table> </div> </li> <li> <a href="/post/maintaining_perl_tonyc_december_2024">Maintaining Perl (Tony Cook) December 2024 </a> <i style="padding-left:3px;opacity:0.6;font-size:.9em;"> Sun, 16-Mar-2025 <span style="font-size:.8em;">by <a href="/list?username=alh">alh</a></span> </i> <div style="font-size:0.7em;padding: 5px 0px 15px 5px;"> <table><tr> <td style="width:85px; vertical-align:top; padding-right:15px;"> <img src="_ra-rel-mnt_/simplecas/fetch_content/7f97282811f6a9f862d7e659c79e5462cc195d94/grant-funding.png" style="max-width:100%;max-height:100%;" /> </td> <td> <p>Tony writes: 2024/12/02 Monday 0.18 github notifications 0.70 #22773 review updates, testing and approve 0.15 #22792 look over test failures, comment 0.30 #22788 rebase. squash and push for CI 0.38 #22799 review, research, comment and approve 0.33 #22795 review and approve 0.65 #22797 review and approve, research and comment 0.18 #22792 follow-up 0.22 #22784 review CI, apply to blead, perldelta </p> ... <a href="/post/maintaining_perl_tonyc_december_2024">read more</a> </td> </tr></table> </div> </li> <li> <a href="/post/conference_update_march">Early Bird Registration, and the last week of the CFP!</a> <i style="padding-left:3px;opacity:0.6;font-size:.9em;"> Thu, 06-Mar-2025 <span style="font-size:.8em;">by <a href="/list?username=GeekRuthie">D Ruth Holloway</a></span> </i> <div style="font-size:0.7em;padding: 5px 0px 15px 5px;"> <table><tr> <td style="width:85px; vertical-align:top; padding-right:15px;"> <img src="_ra-rel-mnt_/simplecas/fetch_content/18b848e81e409ff9941b91c82978ca27bae49c8b/tprc2025_512x512.png" style="max-width:100%;max-height:100%;" /> </td> <td> <p>Early Bird Registration remains open for the Perl and Raku Conference 2025 in Greenville, SC, at the early price of $275. Ticket prices go up to $350 on April 15, so get your tickets right away! The conference team is working hard to put together a great program of speakers to help celebrate the Perl and Raku languages. Come on down to the Palmetto State and spend time with friends </p> ... <a href="/post/conference_update_march">read more</a> </td> </tr></table> </div> </li> <li> <a href="/post/raku-ecosystem-tonyo-final">Grant Report: Raku Ecosystem Final</a> <i style="padding-left:3px;opacity:0.6;font-size:.9em;"> Wed, 05-Mar-2025 <span style="font-size:.8em;">by <a href="/list?username=saiftynet">Saif Ahmed</a></span> </i> <div style="font-size:0.7em;padding: 5px 0px 15px 5px;"> <table><tr> <td style="width:85px; vertical-align:top; padding-right:15px;"> <img src="_ra-rel-mnt_/simplecas/fetch_content/dd1e1502cab5d5bed742159522782a6266699f5d/Raku Infrastructure.png" style="max-width:100%;max-height:100%;" /> </td> <td> <p>Tony O'Dell has been working on a modernised and well documented Ecosystem management platform <code>zeco</code>. This is complex work that integrates contributor management and distro management, and is a vital cog in the evolution of a programming language and its accessibilty to its users. The handling of updates and secure,reliable, reproducible access to distros underpins the sustainable viability of such a platform. It was supported by this grant. Key to </p> ... <a href="/post/raku-ecosystem-tonyo-final">read more</a> </td> </tr></table> </div> </li> <li> <a href="/post/pevans_core_dev_february_2025">PEVANS Core Perl 5: Grant Report for February 2025 </a> <i style="padding-left:3px;opacity:0.6;font-size:.9em;"> Wed, 05-Mar-2025 <span style="font-size:.8em;">by <a href="/list?username=alh">alh</a></span> </i> <div style="font-size:0.7em;padding: 5px 0px 15px 5px;"> <table><tr> <td style="width:85px; vertical-align:top; padding-right:15px;"> <img src="_ra-rel-mnt_/simplecas/fetch_content/7f97282811f6a9f862d7e659c79e5462cc195d94/grant-funding.png" style="max-width:100%;max-height:100%;" /> </td> <td> <p>Paul writes: Hours: 4 Regexp global pos API https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/22971 2 <code>faster-signatures</code> parser reshaping https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/22967 3 Lexical method invocation operator 1 Bugfix lexical methods field/signature https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/23030 https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/23031 Total: 10 hours </p> ... <a href="/post/pevans_core_dev_february_2025">read more</a> </td> </tr></table> </div> </li> <li> <a href="/post/maintaining_perl_dave_mitchell_january_february_2025">Maintaining Perl 5 Core (Dave Mitchell): January - February 2025</a> <i style="padding-left:3px;opacity:0.6;font-size:.9em;"> Wed, 05-Mar-2025 <span style="font-size:.8em;">by <a href="/list?username=alh">alh</a></span> </i> <div style="font-size:0.7em;padding: 5px 0px 15px 5px;"> <table><tr> <td style="width:85px; vertical-align:top; padding-right:15px;"> <img src="_ra-rel-mnt_/simplecas/fetch_content/7f97282811f6a9f862d7e659c79e5462cc195d94/grant-funding.png" style="max-width:100%;max-height:100%;" /> </td> <td> <p>Dave writes: This is my monthly report on work done during Jan and Feb 2025, covered by my TPF perl core maintenance grant. I spent some time 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. I also fixed a bug in regexes which have embedded code blocks where, if the code-block code recurses and calls the </p> ... <a href="/post/maintaining_perl_dave_mitchell_january_february_2025">read more</a> </td> </tr></table> </div> </li> <li> <a href="/post/dancer2_documentation_grant_final_report">Dancer2 Documentation Grant Final Report</a> <i style="padding-left:3px;opacity:0.6;font-size:.9em;"> Fri, 21-Feb-2025 <span style="font-size:.8em;">by <a href="/list?username=saiftynet">Saif Ahmed</a></span> </i> <div style="font-size:0.7em;padding: 5px 0px 15px 5px;"> <table><tr> <td style="width:85px; vertical-align:top; padding-right:15px;"> <img src="_ra-rel-mnt_/simplecas/fetch_content/e546abe16d89083567e7862ab68d866c7cb2ad91/dancer 2.png" style="max-width:100%;max-height:100%;" /> </td> <td> <p>Jason Crome (CROMEDOME on CPAN Authors) has submitted his final report for his project documenting Dancer2. A comprehensive documentation with tutorials and a cookbook that should enable easy engagement with this very useful framework, this is presented in a professional yet accessible way. </p> ... <a href="/post/dancer2_documentation_grant_final_report">read more</a> </td> </tr></table> </div> </li> <li> <a href="/post/pevans_core_dev_december_2024_january_2025">PEVANS Core Perl 5: Grant Report for December 2024 - January 2025</a> <i style="padding-left:3px;opacity:0.6;font-size:.9em;"> Mon, 10-Feb-2025 <span style="font-size:.8em;">by <a href="/list?username=alh">alh</a></span> </i> <div style="font-size:0.7em;padding: 5px 0px 15px 5px;"> <table><tr> <td style="width:85px; vertical-align:top; padding-right:15px;"> <img src="_ra-rel-mnt_/simplecas/fetch_content/7f97282811f6a9f862d7e659c79e5462cc195d94/grant-funding.png" style="max-width:100%;max-height:100%;" /> </td> <td> <p>Paul writes: I only did about an hour in December, so I thought rather than submit a report for a single hour, I'd just roll it into this month's. For December: 1 Final merge tasks for <code>any</code> and <code>all</code> https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/22773/ For January: 0.5 Resync "Time::Piece" to CPAN https://metacpan.org/release/PEVANS/Time-Piece-1.35 4.5 "faster-signatures" experimentation into subroutine signature improvements https://github.com/leonerd/perl5/tree/faster-signatures 1 Implement <code>my method</code> syntax https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/22940 5 Reshaping the way </p> ... <a href="/post/pevans_core_dev_december_2024_january_2025">read more</a> </td> </tr></table> </div> </li> <li> <a href="/post/registration_cfp_second_round_tprc2025">Early Bird Registration (and the second round CFP) are now open for The Perl and Raku Conference 2025</a> <i style="padding-left:3px;opacity:0.6;font-size:.9em;"> Sun, 09-Feb-2025 <span style="font-size:.8em;">by <a href="/list?username=GeekRuthie">D Ruth Holloway</a></span> </i> <div style="font-size:0.7em;padding: 5px 0px 15px 5px;"> <table><tr> <td> <p>Registration is now open for the 2025 edition of The Perl and Raku Conference, to be held June 27-29 in Greenville, SC. Early bird tickets at $250 each are available now through April 15. We are expecting a full house in this year's more-compact venue, so get yourself signed up right away! Buy your tickets now on Eventbrite. If you haven't yet reserved your hotel room, you ought to do </p> ... <a href="/post/registration_cfp_second_round_tprc2025">read more</a> </td> </tr></table> </div> </li> <li> <a href="/post/maintaining_perl_tonyc_november_2024">Maintaining Perl (Tony Cook) November 2024 </a> <i style="padding-left:3px;opacity:0.6;font-size:.9em;"> Fri, 31-Jan-2025 <span style="font-size:.8em;">by <a href="/list?username=alh">alh</a></span> </i> <div style="font-size:0.7em;padding: 5px 0px 15px 5px;"> <table><tr> <td style="width:85px; vertical-align:top; padding-right:15px;"> <img src="_ra-rel-mnt_/simplecas/fetch_content/7f97282811f6a9f862d7e659c79e5462cc195d94/grant-funding.png" style="max-width:100%;max-height:100%;" /> </td> <td> <p>Tony writes: 2024/11/04 Monday 1.83 #15861 research and comment, research SWIG behaviour and follow-up comment 0.08 #22717 review and approve 0.62 #22718 research and comment 0.32 #22720 start review, comments 0.45 #22720 more review, conditional approval 3.30 2024/11/05 Tuesday 0.93 #22718 provide a simple module version of the PR 0.17 #22720 check updates and approve 0.50 #22721 review, testing and </p> ... <a href="/post/maintaining_perl_tonyc_november_2024">read more</a> </td> </tr></table> </div> </li> <li> <a href="/post/maintaining_perl_dave_mitchell_december_2024">Maintaining Perl 5 Core (Dave Mitchell): December 2024 </a> <i style="padding-left:3px;opacity:0.6;font-size:.9em;"> Wed, 29-Jan-2025 <span style="font-size:.8em;">by <a href="/list?username=alh">alh</a></span> </i> <div style="font-size:0.7em;padding: 5px 0px 15px 5px;"> <table><tr> <td style="width:85px; vertical-align:top; padding-right:15px;"> <img src="_ra-rel-mnt_/simplecas/fetch_content/7f97282811f6a9f862d7e659c79e5462cc195d94/grant-funding.png" style="max-width:100%;max-height:100%;" /> </td> <td> <p>Dave writes: This is my monthly report on work done during December 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: 8:42 process p5p mailbox 29:17 refactor Extutils::ParseXS Total: 37:59 </p> ... <a href="/post/maintaining_perl_dave_mitchell_december_2024">read more</a> </td> </tr></table> </div> </li> <li> <a href="/post/events_survey_released">Shape the Future of Perl & Raku Events with Your Input!</a> <i style="padding-left:3px;opacity:0.6;font-size:.9em;"> Mon, 27-Jan-2025 <span style="font-size:.8em;">by <a href="/list?username=GeekRuthie">D Ruth Holloway</a></span> </i> <div style="font-size:0.7em;padding: 5px 0px 15px 5px;"> <table><tr> <td> <p>The Perl and Raku communities have always been more than just a group of developers—they're a thriving network of passionate individuals driving innovation and collaboration. From lively meetups to enlightening workshops and world-class conferences, these events have long been the heartbeat of our shared journey. But what makes an event truly great? Is it the inspiring talks, the hands-on sessions, or the connections made over coffee or a beer? To </p> ... <a href="/post/events_survey_released">read more</a> </td> </tr></table> </div> </li> <li> <a href="/post/new-public-matrix-channel">New Public Matrix Channel #perl:nerdch.at</a> <i style="padding-left:3px;opacity:0.6;font-size:.9em;"> Wed, 22-Jan-2025 <span style="font-size:.8em;">by <a href="/list?username=GeekRuthie">D Ruth Holloway</a></span> </i> <div style="font-size:0.7em;padding: 5px 0px 15px 5px;"> <table><tr> <td> <p>We’re thrilled to announce the launch of a new public Matrix channel dedicated to everything Perl! Whether you're a seasoned Perl developer, a beginner, or simply someone interested in learning more about the language, we invite you to join us in #perl:nerdch.at. This channel is designed to foster collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and support within the vibrant Perl community. It's a space where you can: Ask questions about Perl syntax, best practices, </p> ... <a href="/post/new-public-matrix-channel">read more</a> </td> </tr></table> </div> </li> <li> <a href="/post/osdem25"> Join the Perl and Raku Communities at FOSDEM 2025! </a> <i style="padding-left:3px;opacity:0.6;font-size:.9em;"> Wed, 22-Jan-2025 <span style="font-size:.8em;">by <a href="/list?username=adeuel">Amber Krawczyk</a></span> </i> <div style="font-size:0.7em;padding: 5px 0px 15px 5px;"> <table><tr> <td> <p>FOSDEM, the largest gathering of free and open-source software enthusiasts, is fast approaching, and the Perl and Raku communities are ready to make a splash this year! Taking place on <em>February 1–2, 2025</em>, in Brussels, FOSDEM is a must-attend event for developers, technologists, and anyone passionate about open-source projects. 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