**If you're interested in attending the Reproducible Builds summit in Paris between 11th—13th December please see [our the event page](https://reproducible-builds.org/events/paris2018/).** In the meantime, here's what happened in the [Reproducible Builds](https://reproducible-builds.org) effort between Sunday October 21 and Saturday October 27 2018:
**If you're interested in attending the Reproducible Builds summit in Paris between 11th—13th December [please see our event page](https://reproducible-builds.org/events/paris2018/).** In the meantime, here's what happened in the [Reproducible Builds](https://reproducible-builds.org) effort between Sunday October 21 and Saturday October 27 2018:
In the meantime, here's what happened in the [Reproducible Builds](https://reproducible-builds.org) effort between Sunday October 28 and Saturday November 3 2018:
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* There were a number of updates to our [Jenkins](https://jenkins.io/)-based testing framework that powers [tests.reproducible-builds.org](tests.reproducible-builds.org) by Holger Levsen this month, mostly fighting the load introduced from a number of bots (eg. [[...](https://salsa.debian.org/qa/jenkins.debian.net/commit/d02a5512)]) but also enhancing the performance of Jenkins via adjusting Java's garbage collection and heap size settings (eg. [[...](https://salsa.debian.org/qa/jenkins.debian.net/commit/9a1f15b3)]).
We've been experiencing a high load in our test framework in the last week which we experienced some weeks ago as well after a Jenkins plugin update. However, this time Holger has not been able to get this under control yet and, as such, some test results are currently delayed.
Packages reviewed and fixed, and bugs filed
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* Alexander Bedrossian:
*[equivs](https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/equivs/merge_requests/3)(remove current date)
* Amit Biswas:
*[#913002](https://bugs.debian.org/913002) filed against [xpra](https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/xpra).
*[libzorpll](https://github.com/Balasys/libzorpll/pull/1)(remove build option on i386)
* Anoop Nadig:
*[verilator](https://salsa.debian.org/electronics-team/verilator/merge_requests/1)(used`SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH`) last week
*[bgoffice](https://salsa.debian.org/dmn/bgoffice/merge_requests/1)(timestamp in gzip) week before last
*[equivs](https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/equivs/merge_requests/3)(remove current date)
Chris Lamb also sent two previously-authored patches for [GNU mtools](https://www.gnu.org/software/mtools/) to ensure the [Debian Installer](https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/) images could become reproducible. ([1](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-mtools/2018-10/msg00003.html) & [2](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-mtools/2018-10/msg00004.html))
* tests.reproducible-builds.org
We've been experiencing a much too high load on jenkins.debian.net in the last week, as we have experienced some weeks ago as well, after a jenkins plugin update. However, this time Holger has not been able to get this under control again yet. As such, some tests results are delayed currently.
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This week's edition was written by Chris Lamb, David A. Wheeler, Holger Levsen & reviewed by a bunch of Reproducible Builds folks on IRC & the mailing lists.
This week's edition was written by Alexander Bedrossian, Amit Biswas, Anoop Nadig, Chris Lamb, David A. Wheeler, Holger Levsen, Snahil Singh, Nick Gregory & reviewed by a bunch of Reproducible Builds folks on IRC & the mailing lists.
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