Farewell from the Reproducible Builds Summit 2023!

Thu, 02 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Farewell from the Reproducible Builds summit, which just took place in Hamburg, Germany:

This year, we were thrilled to host the seventh edition of this exciting event. Topics covered this year included:

Project updates from openSUSE, Fedora, Debian, ElectroBSD, Reproducible Central and NixOS

Mapping the “big picture”

Towards a snapshot service

Understanding user-facing needs and personas

Language-specific package managers

Defining our definitions

Creating a “Ten Commandments” of reproducibility

Embedded systems

Next steps in GNU Guix’ reproducibility

Signature storage and sharing

Public verification services

Verification use cases

Web site audiences

Enabling new projects to be “born reproducible”

Collecting reproducibility success stories

Reproducibility’s relationship to SBOMs

SBOMs for RPM-based distributions

Filtering diffoscope output

Reproducibility of filesystem images, filesystems and containers

Using verification data

A deep-dive on Fedora and Arch Linux package reproducibility

Debian rebuild archive service discussion

… as well as countless informal discussions and hacking sessions into the night. Projects represented at the venue included:

Debian, openSUSE, QubesOS, GNU Guix, Arch Linux, phosh, Mobian, PureOS, JustBuild, LibreOffice, Warpforge, OpenWrt, F-Droid, NixOS, ElectroBSD, Apache Security, Buildroot, Systemd, Apache Maven, Fedora, Privoxy, CHAINS (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), coreboot, GitHub, Tor Project, Ubuntu, rebuilderd, repro-env, spytrap-adb, arch-repro-status, etc.

A huge thanks to our sponsors and partners for making the event possible:

Event facilitation

Platinum sponsor

If you weren’t able to make it this year, don’t worry; just look out for an announcement in 2024 for the next event.