{"thread":{"id":"45920","subject":"Snapping git","startedAt":"2017-05-10T10:36:06Z","lastAt":"2017-05-10T10:36:06Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Alan Pope"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"319267","messageId":"CAMxnTANw-eMhju1qMr8Vgq5j-8t0AU6yj2fCJmMhowgAp=tzmw@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"45920","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"Snapping git","fromName":"Alan Pope","fromEmail":"alan.pope@canonical.com","sentAt":"2017-05-10T10:35:54Z","receivedAt":"2017-05-10T10:36:06Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"alan.pope@canonical.com","avatar":null},"body":"Hello!\n\nI work at Canonical as part of the engineering team around Ubuntu and\nSnapcraft [1].\n\nWe’re working on snaps, a platform to enable ISVs to directly control\ndelivery of software updates to their users, and make their software\navailable on many Linux distributions to a wide audience via our\nsnappy store.\n\nSnaps enable you to have the latest build of git available directly\nfrom github master to adventurous users in minutes, and your stable\ntagged releases to more conservative users automatically.\n\nIdeally I'm looking for someone in the community who can spend a\nlittle bit of time over the next week or so creating a snap package\nout of the latest source from git master. We have documentation [2]\nand a forum [3] where the snap developers and users hang out. We're\nkeen to find out where the rough edges are in our docs / process, and\nimprove them, so feedback (+ve/-ve) from this process is essential to\nus.\n\nUltimately the outcome would be a single package in the snap store\n'edge' channel which has the latest git master build that adventurous\ndevelopers on various Linux [4] distributions can install with a\nsimple 'snap install git --edge'.\n\nAnyone fancy taking on this challenge? :)\n\n[1] http://snapcraft.io/\n[2] http://snapcraft.io/docs\n[3] http://forum.snapcraft.io/\n[4] https://snapcraft.io/docs/core/install\n\nBest regards\n-- \nAlan Pope\nSnap Advocate\n\nCanonical - Ubuntu Engineering and Services\n+44 (0) 7973 620 164\nalan.pope@canonical.com\nhttp://ubuntu.com/\n"}]}