Extension Authors Call for April 2020

[eamodio]

Here is the rough plan for our extension authors call for April. The call will be on May 7th. This call will be focused on the new Timeline view and its API — so if you are interested in providing timeline information please join us!

Agenda

• [~15 mins] Introductions — please introduce yourselves and your extension(s)
• [~30 mins] @eamodio will walk through the new Timeline view and associated API. We will then open up for discussion and feedback
• [~15 mins] Open discussion — please think about 1-2 (smaller) quality-of-life improvement items VS Code could do

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 May 5th (sorry for the short notice). 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 May 7th at 9am PT (12pm ET), via a MS Teams call. Again, unfortunately, we won't have a live stream setup for the broader community to join in and comment, but we will post a link to the recorded video at the end of the call. We are definitely looking into getting a live stream setup for future calls.

[eamodio]

The call will be held on May 7th (tomorrow) at 9 am Pacific Time.

[eamodio]

Thank you to everyone who participated in this call!

Video

Highlights

• Request for feedback on the Custom Editor API, as we are very close to finalization — Custom webview editor API #77131
• Walkthrough and request for feedback on the Timeline API — API support for Timeline view #84297

Participants

• Anjali Gola (Intel)
• Ido Perez (Yeoman UI)
• Yuki Ueda (R and more)

Issues

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

• Webviews in the sidebar — Support WebViews in extension contributed custom views #83911
• Provide some richer (optional) UI for custom tree views — Provide some richer (optional) UI for custom tree views #97190

Marketplace

• Pre-release extension support in the marketplace — Allow extensions to publish beta releases and users to opt-in to them #15756

Looking forward to next month!

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