Done: snapcraft 2.29

[sergiusens]

Features implemented

• Version Scriptlet
• Plumbing for snap collaboration
• Plumbing for asset recording
• Initial work for per project container builds PR #1230
• yarn support in the nodejs plugin PR #1245

Notorius Fixes

• hello check
• KDE Neon support
• Classic confinement support for the RUST plugin PR #1255
• snapcraft as a snap fixes PR #1234
• UI polish when pushing to the store PR #1240
• Ant plugin now honors the proxy configuration PR #1256

All issues and work put into 2.29 can be seen on milestone 29

Tests

Instructions to test a stable release update: http://elopio.net/blog/test-sru/

These are the tests that must pass before landing this new release in the -updates pockets of xenial, yakkety and zesty:

Plugins

Build nodejs snaps.
Check that by default they use the newer nodejs LTS version.
Build a nodejs snap using yarn.
Build a classic rust snap.
Build the snapcraft snap.
Check that the final snap doesn’t include any libraries from the /snap/ dir.

Version

Build a snap with version: git.
Build a snap with version-script.

Store

Build classic snaps with SNAPCRAFT_SETUP_CORE.

Exploratory

Build snaps using the snapcraft snap.
Build snaps in elementary.
Build snaps in kde neon.
Cleanbuild snaps in different platforms.
Push snaps to the store.

Release checklist

Create SRU bug LP: #1684965
Create changelog branch PR #1270
Run adt for xenial:amd64
Run adt for xenial:armhf
Run adt for xenial:arm64
Run adt for yakkety:amd64
Run adt for yakkety:armhf
Run adt for yakkety:arm64
Run adt for zesty:amd64
Run adt for zesty:armhf
Run adt for zesty:arm64
Merge changelog branch
Tag the release.
Write specific manual tests for the SRU
dput to zesty
dput to yakkety
dput to xenial
contact release team to accept into -proposed
Run QA over packages in -proposed
Create release notes
contact the release team to release into -updates
update the docker image
send release update notice

[elopio]

Bugs found:

• the snapcraft snap prints: using regular magic file `/usr/share/misc/magic’: medium, not a blocker for the SRU, blocker for the stable snap release.
• When using yarn with the nodejs plugin, the yarn binary is not in $PATH: not a blocker for the release, but it would be nice to have it fixed for the next release.
• When using an invalid property, the message “properties failed to load” is duplicated: low, not a blocker for the release.
• The rust plugin fails when using source-subdir: medium, not a blocker for this release because it’s not a regression.
• cleanbuild doesn’t work in distros without /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/: high, not a blocker for this release but needed for our cross-distro story.

Some bling-bling

As we test, we take some screenshots to presume the nice features of the new release

Ubuntu Xenial, with the dillinger snap, built with the latests nodejs LTS:

Ubuntu Yakkety, with the prettier snap, built using the yarn package manager:

KDE Neon User LTS, with the zsync-curl snap:

Elementary Loki, with the nheko snap:

Debian Unstable, with the duniter snap:

Fedora 25, with the parity rust snap: