Hey folks,
New year, new metadata update mechanism! Just a heads-up to everyone interested, after allowing for a few months for people to rescue their snap metadata as mentioned in the blog post from October, we have gone ahead and set up the “update metadata on release to stable” flag. The flag has been set to “true” for any snaps that have never had their metadata edited via the web interface and that hadn’t had the flag set manually. This means:
- If you’ve set the flag manually, to whichever value, we won’t touch it.
- If you’ve ever edited metadata via the web interface, your flag remains to “don’t update on release to stable”.
From here I’ll wait about a week for people to review their settings if needed, and we will globally enable the “update metadata on stable release” behavior in a few days. As a reminder, “globally enabling” still means that the flag is honored, and we are confident with the above rules/settings, we won’t overwrite metadata incorrectly.
Let me know if there are any concerns.
- Daniel