Snapcrafters: 2022 wrap-up
Last year, we officially re-launched the “Snapcrafters” initiative. We’re a community of volunteers who build and maintain unofficial snap packages. Although snaps make it easy for developers to publish their software directly to users, some of them don’t (yet) do this. Here is where Snapcrafters come in: we build snap packages, update them, and work with developers to eventually hand over these packages into their care.
Throughout the year, we’ve been busy improving the snaps and our tooling around the project. This post summarises some of the highlights.
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Are you interested in helping out? Would you like to improve software used by hundreds of thousands of people? Then we’re happy to have you! The best part is, you don’t even need much knowledge about snaps!
For example, one of the ways you can contribute is by improving and updating the metadata of our snaps. These are, for example, the description of a snap, screenshots and useful links. This helps users find the applications, figure out what they do and know where they can get help. We can definitely use help in improving this information for our snaps. Most of this metadata is stored in the snapcraft.yaml file itself.