*[FIXME](https://twitter.com/acreature/status/1191426228852600837) The Manifest podcast talked with Chris Lamb about the Reproducible Builds project and Debian package management. [direct link](https://manifest.fm/14)
Capable of bootstrapping from a simple hex assembler all the way to a cross-platform C compiler (M2-Planet) and a simplified version of Gnu MES (mes-m2). Work is still on going to finish a FULL version of Gnu MES, which will result in a full bootstrap from a 357byte bootstrap binary all the way to GCC. With 2 separate bootstraps already completed (x86 and AMD64) with more on the way (ARMv7l+aarch64)
* FIXME: [Hervé Boutemy <hboutemy@apache.org> annound the release if 3 base Maven plugins (source, jar and assembly) to get Reproducible Builds as direct Maven build output: see "Configuring for Reproducible Builds" documentation [1] for more details to try on your own projects built with Maven.](https://lists.reproducible-builds.org/pipermail/rb-general/2019-November/001708.html)
* FIXME: [Hervé Boutemy <hboutemy@apache.org> announced the release of 3 base Maven plugins (source, jar and assembly) to get Reproducible Builds as direct Maven build output: see "Configuring for Reproducible Builds" documentation [1] for more details to try on your own projects built with Maven.](https://lists.reproducible-builds.org/pipermail/rb-general/2019-November/001708.html)
* Vagrant Cascadian uploaded [GNU mes](https://www.gnu.org/software/mes/) to [Debian's NEW queue for review](https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/mes_0.20-1.html).
