Metadata fields not yet available for update in snapcraft

snapcraft
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Related to the efforts described in Snap metadata updates and Mechanisms for converging store and snap metadata, for which we already have a PR waiting for feedback/merge (https://github.com/snapcore/snapcraft/pull/1634), as well as binary metadata update support in progress, there is something else we need to review: snapcraft support for metadata fields today only update-able through the store UI.

These fields are:

  • title
  • keywords
  • blacklist/whitelist countries
  • license
  • contact URL
  • screenshots

(FTR, metadata fields currently supported in the snapcraft.yaml are: summary, description and icon)

The store existing API endpoints have support for all of them, but it would be nice to define a workflow to make it possible to update those via snapcraft too.

Should we discuss each field separately? I know some fields have their own particularities (e.g. license).

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Let’s see what the outcome from URL/contact fields in snap metadata is for contact. I am weary of just throwing in new fields.

For screenshot I think it would be nice to see either

meta/gui/
              screenshot_1.png
              screenshot_2.png
              ...
              screenshot_N.png

Are there upper limits to the amount of screenshots, if not, should there be? (my guess is yes)
From a snapcraft PoV we will treat this as we do for hooks, either put them in snap/gui/... or make sure they end up through some build process into prime/snap/gui (some cases might have this handled automatically e.g.; declared appstream entries).