• 2012.04.05 in #37 My activities during Perl/QA hackathon in Paris
  Dominique Dumont who is a Debian developer also participated at the QA Hackathon and he also published is report. Interesting to see the different aspect of the people and how they interacted with each others agendas.
• 2012.04.20 in #39 A success story for Config::Model
  Dominique Dumont, the author of Config::Model shares an e-mail he got telling the story of 'a script that was never intended to be used for more than a few month. But as things go, we were still using it after a few years.' - oh how familiar is that? It needed a way to configure it.
• 2012.12.07 in #72 How to fix a configuration model
  A tutorial by Dominique Dumont to show how a configuration model can be updated.
• 2013.10.13 in #116 Released Perl ptkdb debugger to experimental
  Thanks to Dominique Dumont, Debian and thus Ubuntu are going to get a new version of the Devel::ptkdb debugger.
• 2013.11.01 in #119 About LWP::UserAgent, https and proxy setup
  Apparently LWP::UserAgent (and thus most Perl web clients that rely on it) cannot handle https requests via proxy. This bug was reported 10 years ago. Patches were submitted but the problem has not been fixed. Now Dominique Dumont explains the background of https and show how he proposed to fix the problem.
• 2014.07.18 in #156 Looking for help to package Perl6, Moar and others for Debian
  Familiar with Debian packaging? Perl 6 needs you! Dominique Dumont calls for help to package Perl 6 projects for Debian.
• 2015.10.10 in #220 Perl 6 is now up to date on Debian sid
  How to install the latest Perl 6 on Debian/sid (sid is the codename for the development distribution of Debian).
• 2016.06.18 in #257 An improved Perl API for cme and Config::Model
  Managing configuration files just got a little easier.
• 2016.07.13 in #260 A survey for developers about application configuration
  A survey targetting developers about the configuration of applications.
• 2016.12.27 in #284 New dzil command to install author dependencies as Debian packages
  Dominique has released Dist::Zilla::App::Command::authordebs, which introduces a new authordebs command. It lists the debian packages for the upriver dependencies.
• 2018.05.27 in #357 Shutter, a nice Perl application, may be removed from Debian
  I used it a few time and I've heard people praising it. It would be nice if you could give a hand updating the application!
• 2018.07.07 in #363 New Software::LicenseMoreUtils Perl module
  Debian project has rather strict requirements regarding package license and this module helps overcome two of the shortcomings of the Software::License. Question from the outsider: can the code of this module merged into Software::License?
• 2021.04.25 in #509 An improved GUI for cme and Config::Model
  

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