[rb-general] What is the goal of reproducible builds?

[Bernhard M. Wiedemann]

TLDR:
The goal of reproducible builds is to reduce the likelyhood of running
software that was corrupted (during build)


At https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/reproduciblebuilds-goal
I added a small FAQ around it. You are welcome to contribute there with
refinements or extra questions+answers (because discussions on mailing
lists are often not easy to condense into such a document).
We can still use the ML about discussion of how we discuss this :-)


background:
At the summit we had a session on how/what the r-b/verification
User-Experience (e.g. of apt) should be and found that it should be
shaped by the goal of r-b.
Since I could not find this goal documented yet, I am sending this mail
to get it fleshed out and then added to the website - on main page and
in docs/ .


Ciao
Bernhard M.