Software engineers far and wide came together to share knowledge, improve tools, and collectively move Reproducible Builds efforts forward at the seventh Reproducible Builds Summit.
The event was hosted at the wonderful dock europe in Hamburg, Germany.
Stated event goals were to:
- Physically meet each other after such a long time! ;-)
- 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