Please review the draft for July's report

[David A. Wheeler]

>> On Aug 2, 2023, at 8:31 AM, Chris Lamb <chris at reproducible-builds.org> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> Please review the draft for July's Reproducible Builds report:
>> https://reproducible-builds.org/reports/2023-07/?draft
> On Aug 2, 2023, at 10:04 AM, David A. Wheeler <dwheeler at dwheeler.com> wrote:
> Sphinx just merged a change, I recommend adding a note about it. E.g., just before "Lastly in news, kpcyrd posted to our mailing list announcing a new “repro-env” tool" add this:
> 
> The [Sphinx](https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx) documentation tool recently [accepted a change to improve deterministic reproducibility of documentation](https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/pull/11312). It's

Whups, "It's" should be "Its".

> internal util.inspect.object_description attempts to sort collections, but this can fail. The change handles the failure case by using string-based object descriptions as a fallback deterministic sort ordering, as well as adding recursive object-description calls for list and tuple datatypes. As a result, documentation generated by Sphinx will be more likely to be automatically reproducible.
> 
> (Sorry I can't hop on to the git repo right now, but I hope that helps.)
> 
> --- David A. Wheeler