Extension Authors Call for June 2020

[eamodio]

Here is the rough plan for our extension authors call for June 2020. The call will be held on July 10th @ 8am PT (UTC-7).

The call will be focused on gathering feedback on how we can improve an extension's first-run experience (e.g. notifications, welcome pages), update experience (notifications, release notes, etc), and settings experience for end-users — so if you are interested in participating in those topics please join us!

Agenda

• [~10 mins] Introductions — please introduce yourselves and your extension(s)
• [~50 mins] Open discussion on learning about extension's requirements, wants, etc around first-run, update, and settings
  experience and how that impacts end-users and what we can do to improve that experience

Participants

Since we want a small set of participants to facilitate richer and more effective communication, we are asking everyone who is interested in participating to fill out the sign up link below:

Sign up to participate Sign-ups are over for this month's call

Sign-ups will end on July 8th. After which, we will reach out and confirm the set of authors who will be participating in the call, and will update this post with the final list.

Logistics

On July 10th @ 8am PT (UTC-7), via a MS Teams call. After the call ends, we will post a link to the recorded video.

[Brandy003]

Asking anyone if they could better explain

[eamodio]

Unfortunately we've had to move the call to Friday, July 10th. Please sign up above before the 8th!

[eamodio]

@Brandy003 I'm not sure what details you are looking for, but here is a link to the issue explaining the reasoning/goals of the authors' calls: #91714

[eamodio]

The call will be tomorrow July 10th @ 8am PT (UTC-7)

[pikadun]

Hope to solve this problem of i18n: #54111

[eamodio]

Thank you to everyone who participated in this call!

Video

Participants

• Georgekutty Antony (Docker Run)
• Gustavo Cassel (Google Drive)
• Dan Čermák (Open Build Service Connector)
• Alessandro Fragnani (Project Manager, Bookmarks, and more)
• Ekansh Gupta (ImageToText)
• Hana Kim (Go)
• Lex Li (reStructuredText)
• Nandini Sharma

Issues

Here are the issues tracking the features, bugs, etc that came up during the call.

• What's new icon/UI for extensions (and future API) — What's new icon/UI for extensions (and future API) #102139
• Issue Reporter: Support configuring data sent to extensions — Issue Reporter: Support configuring data sent to extensions #46726

Looking forward to next month!

P.S. Extension authors — join our community run VS Code Developer Community Slack 😄