This month, I got confirmation that NLnet will sponsor my project
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Reproducible_openSUSE
to create an openSUSE-based distribution that consists of only bit-reproducible packages.

In previous r-b-summits, one common question was "How can a user know if a package builds reproducibly?" and here the answer is simple: if it is in the repo, it must be reproducible. And there are tools to rebuild and check.
Another good answer would be http://ismypackagereproducibleyet.org/?pkg=perl

This will need patches for some long-standing issues in emacs, llvm/rust and more.


In other news:
We reached 13400 packages where I could verify
binaries as bit-identical in rebuilds. This leaves less than 2000 remaining.
Some of these have not been rebuilt with the new rpm version yet
and some have minor issues such as .jar files with updated mtimes.