***Getting in touch** — *How to contribute and get in touch*
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ Similar to previous incarnations of the event, the heart of the workshop will be
We are still seeking additional sponsorship for the event. Sponsoring
FIXME attendees would cost FIXME $CURRENCY, and enables us to support
attendence of people who wouldn't otherwise be able to attend. If you
attendance of people who wouldn't otherwise be able to attend. If you
or your company would be able to sponsor the event, please contact:
FIXME.
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ Holger [restarted a discussion](https://bugs.debian.org/774415#270) on Debian bu
Johannes *josch* Schauer explained that their [`mmdebstrap`](https://tracker.debian.org/mmdebstrap) tool [can create bit-for-bit identical](https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2019/10/msg00101.html) Debian [chroots](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chroot) of the *unstable* and *buster* distributions for both the `essential` and `minbase`[bootstrap "variants"](https://sources.debian.org/src/debootstrap/1.0.116/debootstrap.8/#L78-L85) and Bernhard M. Wiedemann [contributed to a discussion](https://bugs.debian.org/940571#26) regarding adding a "global" build switch to enable/disable [Profile-Guided Optimisation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profile-guided_optimization)(PGO) and [Link-time optimisation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interprocedural_optimization) in the `dpkg-buildflags` tool, nothing that "overall it is still very hard to get reproducible builds with PGO enabled."
64 reviews of Debian packages were added, 10 were updated and 35 were removed this month adding to [our knowledge about identified issues](https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/index_issues.html). Three new types were added by Chris Lamb: [`nondeterminstic_output_in_code_generated_by_ros_genpy`](https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/reproducible-notes/commit/d219f18a), [`nondeterministic_ordering_in_include_graphs_generated_by_doxygen`](https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/reproducible-notes/commit/25771b7c) & [`nondetermistic_defaults_in_documentation_generated_by_python_traitlets`](https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/reproducible-notes/commit/3ecdc853).
64 reviews of Debian packages were added, 10 were updated and 35 were removed this month adding to [our knowledge about identified issues](https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/index_issues.html). Three new types were added by Chris Lamb: [`nondeterministic_output_in_code_generated_by_ros_genpy`](https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/reproducible-notes/commit/d219f18a), [`nondeterministic_ordering_in_include_graphs_generated_by_doxygen`](https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/reproducible-notes/commit/25771b7c) & [`nondeterministic_defaults_in_documentation_generated_by_python_traitlets`](https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/reproducible-notes/commit/3ecdc853).
There was a far-reaching discussion regarding the correctness and suitability of setting the `TZ`[environment variable](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment_variable#Unix_2) to `UTC` when [it was noted that the value `UTC0`](https://lists.reproducible-builds.org/pipermail/rb-general/2019-October/001697.html) was "technically" more correct.
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ In addition, Mattia Rizzolo updated our tests to run against all supported Pytho
There was yet more effort put into our [our website](https://reproducible-builds.org/) this month, including Chris Lamb improving the formatting of reports [[...](https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/reproducible-website/commit/db5e808)][[...](https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/reproducible-website/commit/4594e05)][[...](https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/reproducible-website/commit/f338c38)][[...](https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/reproducible-website/commit/46b66fc)][[...](https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/reproducible-website/commit/ad390e8)] and tidying the new ["Testing framework"](https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/reproducible.html) links [[...](https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/reproducible-website/commit/137e4bd)], etc.
In addition, Holger Levsen add the Tor Project's [Reproducible Builds Manager](https://rbm.torproject.org/) to our "[Who is Involved?](https://reproducible-builds.org/who/)" page and Mattia Rizzolo droped a literal `<br>` HTML element [[...](https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/reproducible-website/commit/8b69f7d)].
In addition, Holger Levsen add the Tor Project's [Reproducible Builds Manager](https://rbm.torproject.org/) to our "[Who is Involved?](https://reproducible-builds.org/who/)" page and Mattia Rizzolo dropped a literal `<br>` HTML element [[...](https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/reproducible-website/commit/8b69f7d)].
