This article was written by Merlijn Sebrechts and Dani Llewellyn from the Snapcrafters community.
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Last year, we officially re-launched the “Snapcrafters” initiative. We’re a community of volunteers who build and maintain unofficial snap packages. Although snaps make it easy for developers to publish their software directly to users, some of them don’t (yet) do this. Here is where Snapcrafters come in: we build snap packages, update them, and work with developers to eventually hand over these packages into their care.
Throughout the year, we’ve been busy improving the snaps and our tooling around the project. This post summarises some of the highlights.
Snapcrafters in numbers
If you’ve ever installed software from the Snap Store, there is a high chance you came across one of ours! Today, we have over 1.5 million active installations of our packages! Even more if you count the packages that are now in the hands of the upstream developers.
GIMP and Discord are…
