When uploaded snaps have review issues snapcraft should provide a URL to get more information

[Thomi Richards]

I'm pushing & releasing a snap to the store with:

snapcraft push <my-snap> --release stable

and the store is raising a warning when running the automated reviews. Snapcraft gives me the following output:

"""
Publishing checks failed.
To release this to stable channel please request a review on the snapcraft list.
Use devmode in the edge or beta channels to disable confinement.
"""

There's a few issues here:

 First, snapcraft is assuming that the issue here is confinement-related (in my case it wasn't). I worry that this output will lead users down the wrong path.

 Second, up to this point I've never had to open my browser to build, push, and release a snap. A user may well not know that 'myapps.developer.ubuntu.com' is a thing. Ideally we'd add something like:

"For more information about the specific error, please see: http://myapps...."

*or* perhaps we could include the review issues in the snapcraft output. Either way, we need to give the user more information than we do currently.

[Sergio Schvezov (sergiusens)]

El 10/10/16 a las 19:10, Thomi Richards escribió:
> Public bug reported:
>
> I'm pushing & releasing a snap to the store with:
>
> snapcraft push <my-snap> --release stable
>
> and the store is raising a warning when running the automated reviews.
> Snapcraft gives me the following output:
>
> """
> Publishing checks failed.
> To release this to stable channel please request a review on the snapcraft list.
> Use devmode in the edge or beta channels to disable confinement.
> """
>
> There's a few issues here:
>
> First, snapcraft is assuming that the issue here is confinement-related
> (in my case it wasn't). I worry that this output will lead users down
> the wrong path.

This might be indeed need retouching.
>
> Second, up to this point I've never had to open my browser to build,
> push, and release a snap. A user may well not know that
> 'myapps.developer.ubuntu.com' is a thing. Ideally we'd add something
> like:
>
> "For more information about the specific error, please see:
> http://myapps...."

As soon as the store returns that url we will use it.

>
> *or* perhaps we could include the review issues in the snapcraft output.
> Either way, we need to give the user more information than we do
> currently.

I am on holidays, but there is another bug open for this, the store
isn't giving us any information to work with or url to resolve to.

[Leo Arias (elopio)]

This is bug #1602095. I'm marking it as a duplicate.