Re: Please review the draft for March's report

[David A. Wheeler via rb-general]

> On Apr 10, 2024, at 7:42 AM, kpcyrd <kpc...@archlinux.org> wrote:
> 
> On 4/10/24 12:58 PM, Chris Lamb wrote:
>>   https://reproducible-builds.org/reports/2024-03/?draft
> 
> > Reproducible builds developer kpcyrd reported that that the Arch Linux 
> > "minimal container userland" is now 100% reproducible after work by 
> > developers dvzv and Foxboron on the one remaining package. The post, which 
> > kpcyrd suffixed with the question "now what?", continues on to outline some 
> > potential next steps, including validating whether the container image 
> > itself could be reproduced bit-for-bit. The post generated a significant 
> > number of replies.
> 
> Thanks for the kind words :) maybe it should be listed higher though, in its 
> own section, as "major accomplishment within the community"?

I agree, this one is HUGE news. There's been a lot of awesome work related to 
reproducible builds, but "minimal container userland is a 100% reproducible 
build in a real-world widely-used distro" is a big step forward and should be 
widely announced. Like press release level.

I routinely hear "reproducible builds are impractical". Yes, in some cases 
they're hard, but clearly there are cases where it's practical.

--- David A. Wheeler