Snapping git

Hello!

I work at Canonical as part of the engineering team around Ubuntu and Snapcraft [1].

We’re working on snaps, a platform to enable ISVs to directly control delivery of software updates to their users, and make their software available on many Linux distributions to a wide audience via our snappy store.

Snaps enable you to have the latest build of git available directly from github master to adventurous users in minutes, and your stable tagged releases to more conservative users automatically.

Ideally I'm looking for someone in the community who can spend a little bit of time over the next week or so creating a snap package out of the latest source from git master. We have documentation [2] and a forum [3] where the snap developers and users hang out. We're keen to find out where the rough edges are in our docs / process, and improve them, so feedback (+ve/-ve) from this process is essential to us.

Ultimately the outcome would be a single package in the snap store 'edge' channel which has the latest git master build that adventurous developers on various Linux [4] distributions can install with a simple 'snap install git --edge'.

Anyone fancy taking on this challenge? :)

[1] http://snapcraft.io/ [2] http://snapcraft.io/docs [3] http://forum.snapcraft.io/ [4] https://snapcraft.io/docs/core/install

Best regards