Announcing channel tracks for long-term stable snaps

[Bret A. Barker]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 01:46:21PM -0300, Facundo Batista wrote:
> Hola!
> 
> To publish stable snaps of different versions at the same time, like Go 1.6 and 1.7, we now have ‘channel tracks’ in beta.
> 
> Each track has its own set of risk-based channels: stable, candidate, beta, edge. So for example, you can choose Go
> 1.7/stable and 1.7/edge. People who switch to a beta channel of 1.7 will get new beta revisions as long as that is open,
> otherwise they will drop to 1.7/candidate, or 1.7/stable if that’s the only release in the 1.7 track.
>

A quick note regarding the golang snap, it is using classic confinement and so install should be like:

$ snap install go --classic --channel=1.6/stable

and to switch to the 1.7 stable branch:

$ snap refresh go --channel=1.7/stable

-bret