Please review the draft for December's report

[Vagrant Cascadian]

On 2022-01-04, John Neffenger wrote:
> On 1/3/22 7:08 AM, Chris Lamb wrote:
>> 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?

Addressing upstream project reproducibility issues is absolutely
welcome! :)

> 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

This is all very exciting news to me! Thanks for workign on it and
bringing it to our attention.


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