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Submission + - Call for Grants Proposals - Perl development (web-app.net)

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On Elpeleg writes: "The Perl Foundation is giving out grants for Perl development ranging from $500 to $3000 in February 2009 . You neither need to have a large, complex, or lengthy project nor be a Perl master or guru. You are encouraged to submit a proposal if you have a good idea and the means and ability to accomplish your Perl project. The deadline for proposals submission: January 31 2009. For more information of how to submit your proposal see: Perl development grants"
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Submission + - Perl migrates to git versioning control system. (web-app.net) 1

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On Elpeleg writes: "The Perl Foundation has announced at the http://use.perl.org/ website switching the version control systems to git. According to the announcement Perl 5 migration to git would allow the language development team to take advantage of git's extensive offline and distributed versioning support.

Git is open source and readily available to all Perl developers. Among other advantages, the announcement notes that git simplifies commits, producing fewer administrative overheads for integrating contributions. Git's change analysis tools are also singled out for praise.

The transformation from Perforce to git apparently took over a year. Sam Vilain of Catalyst IT "spent more than a year building custom tools to transform 21 years of Perl history into the first ever unified repository of every single change to Perl." The git repository incorporates historic snapshot releases and patch sets, which is frankly both cool and historically pleasing. Some of the patch sets were apparently recovered from old hard drives, notching up the geek satisfaction factor even more.

Developers can download a copy of the current Perl 5 repository directly from the perl.org site, where the source is hosted."

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