Please review the draft for July's report

[Vagrant Cascadian]

On 2023-08-02, David A. Wheeler 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
> 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.

Added.

> (Sorry I can't hop on to the git repo right now, but I hope that helps.)

Thanks for bringing it up! Excited to see how much this change might
improve!


live well,
  vagrant
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