quassel-webserver snap

[Jamie Bennett]

On 24/11/16 at 08:11am, Didier Roche wrote:
> Le 23/11/2016 à 18:19, Celso Providelo a écrit :
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 2:52 PM Leo Arias <leo.arias at canonical.com
> > <mailto:leo.arias at canonical.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hello,
> >
> >     I know a bunch of people here use quassel. There's a new snap for you:
> >
> >     $ sudo snap install quassel-webserver --edge
> >     $ sensible-browser https://localhost:64443
> >
> >     The main developer, Joël Charles, has been amazing. For a couple
> >     of weeks we have been experimenting with his project. First, we
> >     had to solve an issue with the less-middleware module because it
> >     wanted to use the install directory instead of SNAP_DATA [1], then
> >     we got travis to build the snap on every PR [2], and finally he
> >     agreed to beta test the new enable-ci command of snapcraft that
> >     Celso is working on.
> >
> >     When I asked about feedback or feature requests, he said: "Not
> >     that I think of, it just went very smoothly" :_)
> >
> >     Of course, a few seconds later travis broke and we found a bug in
> >     Celso's PR, just to keep us grounded. It was a quick fix, and now
> >     every change on master will build and push the snap to edge [3].
> >
> >     I really want to thank Joël because we now have a set of scripts
> >     tested in real live, that we can just apply to new projects. Also
> >     Celso because without the enable-ci command, this would never have
> >     been a smooth experience.
> >
> >
> > Amazing work Leo! Thanks for jumping in so quickly (it's not even
> > landed in master) and experimenting with this feature in real
> > circumstances.
> >
> > Until it lands and 2.23 gets SRU-ed in xenial we have to cope with the
> > lack of support for local store credentials (`.snapcraft.cfg`). There
> > are other less-intrusive alternatives like [1], but once the
> > transition is gone `enable-ci` will do the right thing for the
> > majority of projects (simple ones).
> >
> > We hope this initiative along with build.snapcraft.io
> > <http://build.snapcraft.io> (down the road) will considerably increase
> > the number of revisions released in edge, like we already see for core
> > and lxd. That's why we are also working on metrics to capture how
> > developers are pushing/releasing their snaps (webui, snapcraft,
> > travis, LP, etc). It will be nice to observe these trending as we
> > offer easier ways to do CI with snaps.
> >
> Great work guys!
> 
> It would be nice of you guys to blog about your experience for
> integrating CI from master and push to the store on a edge channel as a
> step by step recipe. Maybe something worth posting on
> https://insights.ubuntu.com?

On a similar note, lets get the Quassel guys blogging about it too, I
don't see anything on http://quassel-irc.org/ atm.

> Cheers,
> Didier

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