Speaker
Description
There is a long history of Thunderbird being seeded on the Ubuntu ISOs. With this latest 24.04 Ubuntu release, there was a shift towards the Thunderbird snap by replacing the Thunderbird deb package with a transition package, much like was done with Firefox in 20.04.
As a former Canonical employee, I was able to bring the importance of snaps to MZLA (Thunderbird) and coordinate this transition in time for the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and we've seen relatively little issues.
This talk will cover those important steps needed to get the Thunderbird snap ready for the limelight and highlight which conversations were needed between Canonical and Thunderbird (upstream) that would likely be needed by other projects looking to make the deb -> snap transition.
Come learn about how to get an upstream project interested in the snap packaging, and what steps to take to bring that snap to a top tier as well!
Session author's bio
Heather was trained on snaps while working at Canonical. Then she moved onto working at Thunderbird where she continued to carry the snap banner, while working on other aspects of the Thunderbird community as a developer relations engineer.
| Level of Difficulty | Intermediate |
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