Auto-connection of hardware-observe and home for gemma3

store-requests privileged-interfaces
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Hi team,

We’re wrapping up the release of the gemma3 snap, which is an inference snap that installs a silicon-optimized Gemma 3 engine for local inference. This snap requires access similar to qwen-vl and deepseek-r1 snaps. The software stack is identical to the other snaps.

  • name: gemma3
  • description: An inference snap, installing a silicon-optimized gemma3 engine
  • snapcraft: gemma3-snap/snap/snapcraft.yaml at main · canonical/gemma3-snap · GitHub
  • upstream: GitHub - canonical/gemma3-snap: Inference snap for the Gemma 3 model
  • upstream-relation: -
  • interfaces:
    • hardware-observe:
      • request-type: auto-connection
      • reasoning: To detect the host hardware (CPU, accelerator, etc) and install the right engine for AI inference
    • home: + read all
      • request-type: installation, connection
      • reasoning: The engine that runs inside as a root daemon requires access to other users’ home for loading local models based on user configuration. We expect the user to manually connect home if they need to sideload a model, but if the reviewers think that is unusual in snaps, we could go with an auto-connection.

There is an upload of the snap with home read all (revision 1) which has rejected the store review.

Thank you

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Hey @farshidtz

Thanks for your request. Given the reasoning provided, the requested interfaces make sense to me. Thus, +1 from me for granting gemma3 auto-connection to hardware-observe interface and manual connection to home interface with “read: all” attribute

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Hi @farshidtz!

+1 (#voteFor) from my side too, for granting gemma3 auto-connection to hardware-observe interface and manual connection to home interface with “read: all” attribute.

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Hello! Adding my +1 (#voteFor) for auto-connection for hardware-observe and a manual-connection for home read:all for the gemma3 snap.

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Voting period has ended. This request is approved with 2 votes for and 0 votes against.

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Request was approved, this is now live. Please let me know if you find any issue.

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