Uploading a snap that requires a manual review shows an error that's not great

On 11/07/16 21:53, Leo Arias wrote:
> It mentions the snapcraft list. I know what that is, but I bet many
> people will not. Maybe add a link, or use the email address?

yes, let's say '<email address hidden> mailing list'

> It says I can use devmode. In this case, devmode will not help because
> my mistake is that I set an architecture but didn't include any binaries
> for that archs. I don't know how to fix this. Some ideas that come to
> mind are to show in the error the reason why the publishing checks
> failed, or run the checks before attempting the upload.

Ye, I think we want to provide more specific feedback on the checks that
failed and how the user can address them.

Mark

El 12/07/16 a las 10:26, Mark Shuttleworth escribió:
> On 11/07/16 21:53, Leo Arias wrote:
> > It mentions the snapcraft list. I know what that is, but I bet many
> > people will not. Maybe add a link, or use the email address?
>
> yes, let's say '<email address hidden> mailing list'

We need to create such list, can we?
>
> > It says I can use devmode. In this case, devmode will not help because
> > my mistake is that I set an architecture but didn't include any binaries
> > for that archs. I don't know how to fix this. Some ideas that come to
> > mind are to show in the error the reason why the publishing checks
> > failed, or run the checks before attempting the upload.
>
> Ye, I think we want to provide more specific feedback on the checks that
> failed and how the user can address them.

Certainly, but this requires the store to provide such feedback, there's already a bug open for this but I will link this one as well just in case as the reasoning for it is better explained here.
>
> Mark
>

From Thomi in a dup:
"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."

https://github.com/snapcore/snapcraft/pull/1110