I took an initial look at this as a maintainer for Jenkins Linux packaging -- I find the snap format itself rather interesting. I am curious to see where it goes now that there's support for non-Ubuntu distros released from Canonical. I like that it makes Jenkins more visible and discoverable for users, though.
The bad news: right now, I don't think this packaging is at the level of maturity (I've called out a couple points in the PR) that it would need to be for inclusion as a main distribution for Jenkins. There are also some infrastructure issues with building on Ubuntu 16.04 in the main Jenkins packaging project (potentially solvable by docker use but a bit annoying). The good news: it would be a great candidate for a similar distribution path to the Docker image, where it initially is built up independently, and then once it hits an appropriate level of maturity, gets official inclusion and a download link on Jenkins.io. I'd really like to see this packaging option get fleshed out further and hit that point, because I think there's some exciting potential. On Friday, June 10, 2016 at 7:16:15 PM UTC-4, Evan Dandrea wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Jun 2016 at 14:25 Jesse Glick <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 12:31 AM, Evan Dandrea >> <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: >> > Let me know what you think about getting the snapcraft.yaml file in your >> > repo so you can control exactly what gets built. >> >> A PR to https://github.com/jenkinsci/packaging sounds like a good idea. > > > Cheers. I've put one together: > https://github.com/jenkinsci/packaging/pull/57 > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/5801578a-8e32-45ea-9c54-9f8df1f9f9e8%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
