"leveraging the largest and most active IDE-extension community on the planet"
By creating your own IDE-extension community?
I mean, the new extension registry won't mirror what's in Microsofts registry and require every extension creator to explicitly load things to the other one, or am I mistaken here?
As explained in the post, Microsoft disallows non Visual Studio products to use their marketplace. We are not creating a new community but rather an additional registry for the same community that allows access from anyone (including e.g. VSCodium).
It just seems to me that "creating a new marketplace and hoping extension creators will use it" is at odds with "leveraging the largest and most active IDE-extension community on the planet".
Don't get me wrong, I think your new open registry sounds like an awesome idea and I hope it works, but it seems like a very risky assumption to me.
"leveraging the largest and most active IDE-extension community on the planet"
By creating your own IDE-extension community?
I mean, the new extension registry won't mirror what's in Microsofts registry and require every extension creator to explicitly load things to the other one, or am I mistaken here?
As explained in the post, Microsoft disallows non Visual Studio products to use their marketplace. We are not creating a new community but rather an additional registry for the same community that allows access from anyone (including e.g. VSCodium).
I understand that.
It just seems to me that "creating a new marketplace and hoping extension creators will use it" is at odds with "leveraging the largest and most active IDE-extension community on the planet".
Don't get me wrong, I think your new open registry sounds like an awesome idea and I hope it works, but it seems like a very risky assumption to me.
RedHat, MS Azure, Elm, VMware, Pivotal claimed namespaces last week and started publishing: github.com/eclipse/open-vsx.org/is...
We are seeding the registry as well: github.com/open-vsx/publish-extens...
Spreading the word would be helpful.
cool, I will do :)