Software engineers far and wide came together to share knowledge, improve tools, and collectively move Reproducible Builds efforts forward at the eighth Reproducible Builds Summit.
Stated event goals were to:
- Update & exchange about the status of reproducible builds in various projects.
- Improve collaboration both between and inside projects.
- Expand the scope and reach of reproducible builds to more projects.
- Establish space for more strategic and long-term thinking than is possible in virtual channels.
- Brainstorm designs on tools enabling users to get the most benefits from reproducible builds.
- Work together and hack on solutions.
- Discuss how reproducible builds will be usable and meaningful to users and developers alike.
The agenda covered a range of topics including:
- continuing design and development work on .buildinfo infrastructure
- discussing formats and tools we can share
- language specific respositories and package managers (e.g. PyPI, NPM, etc)
- infrastructure needs like e.g. snapshot services, public verification serices
- software bill of materials
- future directions for diffoscope, reprotest & strip-nondeterminism
- reproducible filesystem images
- real world success stories