Alex Lowe

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### What needs to get done [This page](https://documentation.ubuntu.com/snapcraft/stable/reference/package-repositories/) refers to the craft-archives docs for information about adding repositories, but craft-archives makes the local keyring location configurable. We should explain the...

Status: Triaged
Type: Enhancement
Type: Documentation

Fixes #240, which was introduced with #238

Since LXD allows [nested containers](https://documentation.ubuntu.com/lxd/stable-5.21/reference/instance_options/#instance-security:security.nesting), it would be nice to be able to declare that the LXD backend should run its containers with nesting enabled.

``` lengau@ratel:~$ GOBIN=$HOME/.local/bin go install github.com/canonical/spread/cmd/spread@latest go: downloading github.com/canonical/spread v0.0.0-20250604131136-ae284792596e go: github.com/canonical/spread/cmd/spread@latest: version constraints conflict: github.com/canonical/[email protected]: parsing go.mod: module declares its path as: github.com/snapcore/spread but was required as: github.com/canonical/spread ```

We should have a schema for `spread.yaml` and `task.yaml` published to the [JSON Schema Store](https://www.schemastore.org/)

We have many tests that have the same logic but need to be applied with slightly different data on a slightly different OS. Rather than copying and pasting the task.yaml...

It would be useful to allow a way to pass a different project file path to spread, for example in the context of a system that pre-processes this file as...

The lxd backend fails when providing an Ubuntu system starting with focal. spread.yaml: ```yaml project: testcraft path: /testcraft environment: PROJECT_PATH: /testcraft PATH: /snap/bin:$PATH include: - tests/spread backends: lxd: systems: -...

### What's the problem this feature will solve? Now that [`compression.zstd`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/compression.zstd.html) is included in Python 3.14, it would be really nice to be able to build zstd-compressed source files. ###...

enhancement
Needs Triage