Tio: Request for classic confinement

lundmar · July 13, 2018, 1:11pm

I could really use that classic confinement approval - tio does not really work without it and I’m sure many users don’t know how to enable classic confinement.

lundmar · July 17, 2018, 6:08pm

Any chance to get approval for classic confinement for tio?

Thanks.

lundmar · July 24, 2018, 9:56am

Please, anyone who want to chime in and let tio have classic confinement?

Thanks.

zyga-snapd · July 24, 2018, 10:54am

CC @pstolowski this looks like a nice case study for the hotplug work:

make tio classic (requires voting/vouching for the author)
while stable is classic and the hotplug work is not ready things stay as-is
as hotplug work reaches beta, work with the author on great hotplug experience and strict confinement
exercise various parts of the stack (hotplug, serial port interface, assumes: snapdXY, etc)
publish, release, announce, etc

lundmar · July 24, 2018, 12:21pm

Sounds like a good idea to me. I’ll be available to help out with the tio side of things and testing to improve the serial-port plug. tio simply needs to be allowed access to any device of the serial type (ie. all device nodes located in /dev/serial/*).

jdstrand · July 24, 2018, 4:25pm

@niemeyer - can you comment on if this should wait on hotplug or be granted classic now?

niemeyer · July 24, 2018, 8:00pm

@jdstrand For this case we should probably fix the interface instead. We support serial ports already. If it’s lacking, this sounds like a good chance to work with @lundmar on the details to make sure we can cover real world needs, and allow the snap to work strictly.

lundmar · July 24, 2018, 9:06pm

I would appreciate tio being granted classic confinement until the serial port plug supports connecting any serial port device. Unless of course, you guys think this is something which will be implemented very soon.

lundmar · July 30, 2018, 1:01pm

Please, can tio be granted classic confinement until the serial-port plug supports connections to arbitrary serial tty devices.

It’s been a month since my original request.

Thanks.

lucyllewy · July 30, 2018, 8:00pm

@reviewers can you take a look please?

jdstrand · July 31, 2018, 6:47pm

Since the requirements are understood and the feature won’t be implemented before 2.35 (which is a number of weeks out) and @lundmar is known (lxi-tools), I think it is fine to proceed with vetting him for use of classic.

@popey, @Wimpress and/or @evan - can one of you do the vetting of the publisher and then I’ll grant use of classic?

jdstrand · August 7, 2018, 4:00pm

@popey, @Wimpress and/or @evan - ping

lundmar · August 13, 2018, 9:22pm

Things are moving very slowly - perhaps people are on summer vacation.

evan · August 15, 2018, 9:58am

I am +1. @lundmar is upstream for Tio. The snap needs features not yet available in snapd before being strictly confined.

jdstrand · August 15, 2018, 4:27pm

@evan - thank you for the vote, but have you vetted the publisher?

popey · August 16, 2018, 3:22pm

@jdstrand I have, and +1 from me too.

lundmar · August 21, 2018, 10:20am

Are we good to go classic? Thanks.

Wimpress · August 22, 2018, 2:15pm

This is also +1 from me. @jdstrand what’s the verdict?

jdstrand · August 22, 2018, 8:51pm

Granting classic to this snap. This is now live.

lundmar · August 22, 2018, 10:29pm

I’ve removed the plugs and tio is now successfully released under classic confinement. Thanks.