@kenvandine - Just a few thoughts… The wording in this thread implies that it’s possible for people to join to snapcrafters after certain qualifications are met but it doesn’t seem to be that way. So far, I’ve started to feel like people in a close link are able to do so.
I’ve tried to contribute snaps that I cared about as Ubuntu has been my daily driver and it’s really important for me to have certain packages available as snaps. 2 of those snaps were:
- gradle
- alacritty
However the process of getting an approval for classic snaps, getting a snap to be managed by snapcrafters and merging a PR in that repo has been painfully slow and very frustrating in my experience.
It took almost 2 months to have gradle published on the snap store. Every update PR I’ve sent for it required me to ping Alan, Igor and several other individual which is really annoying not just for me but also for them. Another PR is waiting just to be noticed and probably will require me to ping everyone again. This process simply doesn’t work.
Please also see the discussion around alacritty. We have notified Alan and other people just to get it adopted by snapcrafters and it’s been stalling for almost 4 months! And this is just to move the repo to snapcrafters’ repo. What will happen then when we need updates, fixes etc?
You say that the process is not tied to @popey but it really is. All my PR’s were merged or at least progressed after I personally sent messages to Alan. At least that’s been the case for gradle.
I hope that you’ll consider @om26er’s suggestion.