Just recently became Community Manager over at the Thunderbird project. I’m looking for some assistance from the community in snapping up Thunderbird and building that into our process so that we can push this out with each release (and get it published as a snap).
Anyone wanna join us in helping TB get this process up-and-going and streamlined?
A snapped Thunderbird would be great. If I may make a suggestion, if you undertake this, please make sure from the start that the snapped package can use enigmail and GPG. For me this is absolutely essential.
I have a snap for thunderbird already, works well just pending security review in the store. Ultimately I’d really like the snap generated as part of the upstream thunderbird CI process.
I’ll let you know when it’s available for further testing.
That’s great @kenvandine - I can intro you to our guy who manages our CI once you are ready to have us poke at it. Are you packaging the last stable release? The beta? The nightly? Would love to hear more.
I’ve published thunderbird 58.0b2 to the beta channel.
@ryanleesipes please try it out and let me know if you find issues. I’d really appreciate it if you could put me in touch with the right folks to get this part of your regular builds.
@kenvandine I tried the Thunderbird snap on 18.04 daily. I’m going to spoil your mood, sorry
$ snap install thunderbird --beta
thunderbird (beta) 58.0b2 from 'ken-vandine' installed
$ snap run thunderbird
fish: “snap run thunderbird” terminated by signal SIGSYS (Bad system call)
The snap declaration wasn’t granted for using ‘allow-sandbox: true’ with browser-support. I adjusted that; please either connect the interface manually and/or remove/install and try again.
Was Thunderbird abandoned on snap? It is not updated, on the beta channel is to the version: “beta: 58.0b3 (3)”, “edge: 59.0b2 (11) 130MB”
I also have the following problems:
When the startup has the old problem that creates the folders on the home, I have the language in Italian and then the various folders: Documenti, Scaricati etc …, if I start thunderbird creates other folders: Download etc. … Annoying problem.
It does not have permission to access external disks, so I can not take attachments from my data disc: /media/users/data
Does not respect the desktop theme.
Update: Another problem is the translation, available only in English
@kenvandine Hello, can you update snap to 60? If not then I recommend to remove it as an outdated beta doesn’t make sense to be publicly available store.