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As extensions adopt walkthrough's (#118402) we want them to cut back their setup notifications galore that is usually triggered by first activation.
VS Code extension walkthrough support will roll out in stages and with different heuristics. Extensions will need a flag from VS Code that their walkthrough was shown to the user; which can then gate first-launch notifications that have counterparts in the walkthrough.
Other considerations:
Extensions might be interested in if the user actually read or completed the walkthrough. It seems wrong though to send more notifications to a user that already ignored the first walkthrough. Contextual notifications (like warning about missing interpreter when a user tries to build) can still help in those cases. Usertesting and experiments can then confirm if users fare better on walkthroughs or first-activation notifications.
After walkthroughs are enabled for all users and users have an option to disable them (choosing the silent treatment); it might help to not tell extensions so those users are not hit by the old notifications wave. This would make the flag only useful during the initial rollout of walkthroughs.
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[Getting Started] Signal extensions if VS Code/s extension walkthroughs are enabled
[Getting Started] Signal extensions if VS Code's extension walkthroughs are enabled
Apr 28, 2021
Since we have "when": false now, it's hidden by default. Only insiders users in treatment group will see it. Has the experiment started?
For users in treatment group, we may also want to hide extension's own implementation of welcome page, so what's the name of treatment variable? Or are we supposed to directly check value of the setting experiments.override.gettingStarted.overrideCategory.<extension-id>#<walkthrough-id>.when?
As extensions adopt walkthrough's (#118402) we want them to cut back their setup notifications galore that is usually triggered by first activation.
VS Code extension walkthrough support will roll out in stages and with different heuristics. Extensions will need a flag from VS Code that their walkthrough was shown to the user; which can then gate first-launch notifications that have counterparts in the walkthrough.
Other considerations:
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: