On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 02:42:14PM -0400, Eli Schwartz wrote: > What about switching from: > > Reproducible builds are a set of software development practices that > create an independently-verifiable path from source to binary code. > ([more](link target)) > > To: > > Reproducible builds are a set of software development practices that > create an independently-verifiable, trusted path from source code to a > specific binary artifact. Reproducible builds have many factors; for > more details, see the [technical definition](link target).
I like this. Please provide an MR for the website.git?
> This clarifies that we care about reproducing a specific artifact, not
> just reproducing the creation of "an" artifact.
indeed.
> Artifacts != executables and we should *not* lock ourselves into a
> corner over whether this only applies to something in the ELF/PE/Mach-O
> file formats. Also there can be lots of different executables for a
> project that do the same thing e.g. compiled by and for different
> distros, but "artifact" implies a lot more uniqueness.
*nods*
> Then immediately further down the main page, we already have a section
> for "Why does it matter?", which can provide any additional
> clarification needed about the tagline.
*nods*
& thanks!
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tschau,
Holger
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