Please review the draft for December's report

[John Neffenger]

On 1/3/22 7:08 AM, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Please review the draft for December's Reproducible Builds report:
> 
>    https://reproducible-builds.org/reports/2021-12/?draft

Would it be helpful to add a section about upstream changes regarding 
reproducible builds made by the upstream projects themselves?

The OpenJDK project has made good progress lately. All of my personal 
Java projects are now reproducible when using the JDK 19 tools directly 
in an early-access build. The last piece I needed was this pull request:

8276766: Enable jar and jmod to produce deterministic timestamped content
https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/6481

This change has been integrated into JDK 19 (to be released in September 
2022), and a back-port of the commit has been requested for JDK 18 (to 
be released on March 22, 2022).

The full discussion of the change is found below in the CSR 
(Compatibility and Specification Review):

JDK-8277755: Enable jar and jmod to produce deterministic timestamped 
content
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8277755

John