VS Code Release 1.69

[jeanp413]

Endgame: microsoft/vscode#153272

Expected release date: 07/07

DRI: @andreafalzetti @jeanp413
Plan:

• Create corresponding release branches for main and gp-code/main
  • Create release branch release/1.69
    • Execute the rebase from upstream: ./scripts/sync-with-upstream.sh upstream/release/1.69 release/1.69
  • Create release branch gp-code/release/1.69
    • Execute the rebase from upstream: ./scripts/sync-with-upstream.sh upstream/release/1.69 gp-code/release/1.69
    • Turn off all experimental feature flags in gitpod-web
      • Ports view
• Switch nightly jobs in https://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-releases and Gitpod Code-Nightly GitHub actions to point to the release branches
  • insiders-gp.yml
  • insiders.yml
  • code-nightly.yaml
• Create and merge PR in Gitpod repo to generate stable image for VS Code
  • Use the template from https://gist.github.com/filiptronicek/be19dcab639a1cdf08089cc762377a41
  • Smoke test version 1.69 in VS Code Insiders
• Create and merge PR in Gitpod repo updating VS Code stable image tags to image generated in previous step
  • constants.go
• Deploy VS Code Insiders as stable
• Release OpenVSCode Server
• Port fixes from release/1.69 to main if any
• Switch nightly jobs in https://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-releases and Gitpod Code-Nightly GitHub actions to point back to main and gp-code/main branch
• Monitor for recovery releases and provide corresponding release in Gitpod and OpenVSCode if necessary
  • https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/releases/tag/1.69.1
    • [code] Update stable to 1.69.1 #11326