docs: Please document best practices for building snaps for all architectures (such as seeded snaps)
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Current evaluation
Documentation request for best practices on building snaps across all architectures (e.g. seeded snaps), covering remote-build vs Launchpad recipes and edge/beta/stable channel and tag strategies. Unassessed by maintainers.
Suggested action: needs triage
Reason: The issue has only the 'Type: Documentation' label and a single follow-up from the reporter describing the fwupd example; no maintainer has acknowledged or scoped it. Existing docs cover remote-build and platforms individually, but there is no consolidated multi-arch/seeded-snap best-practices guide, so the request is valid but still needs prioritisation and design decisions.
Evaluated by: mr-cal-bot
Impact:
50
Quick Win:
14
Complexity:
55
Confidence:
75
Actionability:
60
Issue body
*Please describe the question or issue you're facing with "How-to guides - Snapcraft 9.1 documentation".*
There appears to be no documentation telling me how to build a snap across all the architectures supported by Ubuntu/the snap store as is needed for seeded snaps. There are two mechanisms to build snaps as far as I can tell: `snapcraft remote-build` and importing it to launchpad and a recipe there. Nobody I asked about building snaps knows about `remote-build`, and it's not clear to me how I would proceed with recipes and handle tagged releases (push branch to edge and tags to beta).
We need to have clearly defined best practices for this. It also needs to explain how to handle like daily builds in edge vs release builds.
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*Reported from: https://ubuntu.com/docs/snapcraft/9/how-to/*
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ~deepseek/deepseek-pro-latest |
Impact:
50
Quick Win:
14
Complexity:
55
Confidence:
75
Actionability:
60
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needs triage | Documentation request for best practices on building snaps across all architectures (e.g. seeded snaps), covering remote-build vs Launchpad recipes and edge/beta/stable channel and tag strategies. Unassessed by maintainers. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha |
Impact:
35
Quick Win:
9
Complexity:
40
Confidence:
62
Actionability:
45
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needs triage | Docs request (1 day old, unlabelled, no maintainer reply): no guidance on building snaps for all architectures for seeded snaps — covers `snapcraft remote-build`, Launchpad recipes, and edge/beta/stable channel and tag strategies. | |
| ~deepseek/deepseek-pro-latest |
Impact:
45
Quick Win:
16
Complexity:
35
Confidence:
60
Actionability:
55
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needs triage | Documentation request for best practices to build snaps across all supported architectures (e.g. seeded snaps), covering remote-build and Launchpad recipes plus edge vs release daily builds. New, unlabelled, no maintainer response. |
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