Improving Snap Maintenance - Automating Updates for New Upstream Releases

Discover how to streamline Snap maintenance through automation in this comprehensive workshop from Ubuntu Summit 2023. Learn to leverage GitHub automation for keeping Snaps up-to-date, saving time and effort for maintainers. Explore a custom GitHub action and its implementation in workflows, using both a simple example Snap and the real-world case of gnome-calculator. Gain insights into automatically bumping source tags, committing changes, and pushing updates to the main branch. Additionally, understand the process of rebuilding and uploading Snaps to the Snap Store with each repository push. Bring a laptop to participate in hands-on exercises, clone example repositories, and deploy Snap update automation. Basic knowledge of Snap packaging and Git is required, along with the ability to use Git and GitHub via command line and web browser, and access Launchpad.