Week 27 of 2017 in snapcraft

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Welcome to the weekly development notes for snapcraft! This covers work from July 03 until July 07 of 2017.

External contributions

First and for most, we extend a thank you from the team to all the external contributions we’ve seen this week, a special shout out to @evan and @ppisati.

Development work

Core

Ongoing dicussions on the forum and feature branches took place last week:

  • Consensus has been reached on manifest generation for a snap. Branches in progress and this is the forum post where it was finalized in.
  • API discussions ongoing on how plugins can notify the assets used was discussed on this forum post.

Integration

  • Added bash completion support in the advent of support in snapd. PR: #1390
  • Correct handling of I/O errors on file replication logic. This allows one to work with snapcraft in docker from OS X to build snaps. PR: #1369
  • Ongoing, with consensus now on how to declare architecture support of a snap for builders (builder hint) on this forum post.

Containers

  • Project assigned containers are now cleaned on snapcraft clean. PR: #1372.
  • Use the correct uid on container mount for project assets. PR: #1385

Plugins

  • Default targets added for powerpc, ppcel64 and s390x. There are default targets for all the supported targets now. PR: #1377
  • Cross compilation support for the autotools and waf plugin were proposed.

Project testing and CI

  • Testing refactors for readability and speed. PR: #1391.
  • Applied a workaround for the download failures due to CDN issues in our testbed PR: #1386.

News and outreach

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