<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <meta charset="utf-8"> Here is an update on the highlights in the snap community for the past week. We are releasing this one a bit late on schedule because we really wanted to include an invitation for contributors in the community to the Heidelberg snappy sprint, from july 18th to 22nd in Germany! ## Heidelberg sprint, 18-22 July A face-to-face event this summer to meet and share your experience with snap developers, early adopters and contributors. You are invited to contribute shaping the future of snaps, plan the next features of snapd and snapcraft along developers of leading open source projects, such as Debian, KDE, MATE, etc. <a href="https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/blog/2016/07/04/shaping-universal-snaps/" style="text-decoration:none;">Learn more and apply for sponsorship</a>. ## Let’s Play Snapcraft Alan Pope has launched a video series called "Let’s Play Snapcraft" and it’s quite a treat. In this first video, Alan is snapping OpenTTD, the Transport Tycoon Deluxe open remake. It’s 20 minutes long and covers the basics of Snapcraft,<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0IzxsIFjJY" style="text-decoration:none;"> enjoy</a>! ## Playpen <ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Playpen is steadily growing and now contains<a href="https://github.com/ubuntu/snappy-playpen" style="text-decoration:none;"> examples for 32 snaps</a></li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We have started an<a href="https://github.com/ubuntu/snappy-playpen/wiki/Upstreaming" style="text-decoration:none;"> Upstreaming</a> wiki page, with guidelines to get snaps to production quality and submit them to upstreams that have not started on their own snaps.</li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The<a href="https://daniel.holba.ch/blog/2016/06/snappy-playpen-event-next-tuesday/" style="text-decoration:none;"> next Playpen is tomorrow</a>, we will continue our documentation effort and start working on the upstreaming aspect of it</li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Some snaps from the Playpen are starting to use the<a href="https://github.com/ubuntu/snapcraft-desktop-helpers" style="text-decoration:none;"> GTK/Qt desktop helpers</a> created by Didier Roche, that take care of integrating themes, icons, and much more in your desktop snaps. Stay tuned for more on this topic!</li> </ul> If you are having issues while making snaps, check if they are referenced on the new<a href="https://github.com/ubuntu/snappy-playpen/wiki/Known-issues" style="text-decoration:none;"> Known issues</a> wiki page, and make sure you come talk to experimented snappers on<a href="https://gitter.im/ubuntu/snappy-playpen" style="text-decoration:none;"> the Snappy Playpen chat</a>. ## Community highlights <ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The shout out of the week goes to Zack Casey! In the span of a few days, this fantastic snapper has landed<a href="https://uappexplorer.com/app/blender-tpaw.tpaw" style="text-decoration:none;"> Blender</a>,<a href="https://uappexplorer.com/app/electrum-tpaw.tpaw" style="text-decoration:none;"> Electrum</a> (bitcoin wallet) and<a href="https://uappexplorer.com/app/liteide-tpaw.tpaw" style="text-decoration:none;"> LiteIDE</a> (Go IDE) in the store. This is simply amazing and we are looking forward to his next snap!</li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Brian Douglass has<a href="http://blog.bhdouglass.com/openstore/web/2016/06/26/the-open-snap-store.html" style="text-decoration:none;"> enabled snaps distribution</a> through the OpenStore, an alternative app store initially targeted at Ubuntu phones and tablets. If you are looking for alternative ways of playing with the system, this is a great starting point.</li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Popescu Sorin is making demos of snaps running in Unity8 (as well as other bleeding edge things). Here is a video of the<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8aAU_Eh_x0" style="text-decoration:none;"> Blender</a> snap, with its dedicated X window completely confined since Unity8 itself is running on Mir.</li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Daniel Wood created<a href="https://plus.google.com/+DanielWood/posts/cVF4hLr5E59" style="text-decoration:none;"> a CAD app</a> for the<a href="https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/06/01/still-and-rigid-or-adaptable-tell-us-about-your-app/?utm_source=ubunteu&utm_medium=url_shortner&utm_term=IBg9TK&utm_campaign=shortner" style="text-decoration:none;"> #ConvergeMePlease</a> contest distributed as a snap</li> </ul> ## Reading list <ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://blog.sergiusens.org/posts/The-Snapcraft-Parts-Ecosystem/" style="text-decoration:none;">The Snapcraft Parts Ecosystem</a>, in-depth introduction to an important new feature in Snapcraft 2.12 by Sergio Schvezov</li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/blog/2016/06/29/snapcraft-212/" style="text-decoration:none;">Snapcraft 2.12: an ecosystem of parts, qmake and gulp</a>, the Snapcraft 2.12 release log with examples</li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://blog.labix.org/2016/06/30/all-mongodb-releases-everywhere" style="text-decoration:none;">All MongoDB releases, everywhere</a>, do you like MongoDB? Do you like being able to test and run several versions, including bleeding edge features? Gustavo Niemeyer got you covered</li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://elopio.net/blog/first-snaps/" style="text-decoration:none;">On writing my first snaps, and keeping my passwords secure everywhere</a>, KeepassX and kpcli have been snapped, here is how, a great write up by Leo Arias</li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.linuxuk.org/post/snap_try/" style="text-decoration:none;">snap try: The quick way to package snaps</a>, Jamie Bennett introduces you to `snap try`, the easiest way to turn a snap directory into an mounted, editable, snap</li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.lucaswilliams.net/index.php/2016/06/29/switchdev-in-ubuntu-core-yes-please/" style="text-decoration:none;">SwitchDev in Ubuntu-Core? Yes Please!</a>, a follow-up on custom kernel snapping by Lucas Williams</li> </ul> This is a list of news we are compiling weekly, but make sure you subscribe to the following social channels for daily updates:<a href="https://twitter.com/snapcraftio" style="text-decoration:none;"> twitter</a>,<a href="https://plus.google.com/+SnapcraftIo" style="text-decoration:none;"> google+</a>,<a href="https://www.facebook.com/snapcraftio" style="text-decoration:none;"> facebook</a>. Cheers, David </body> </html>