Hi. The VSCode extension source is in and ready for testing and bugreports. Instructions to build your own version are here:
https://github.com/apache/netbeans/blob/master/java/java.lsp.server/vscode/README.md Sváťa, Dušan, Martin, and others are now ready to bugfix a bit to stabilize the behavior. Of course, thanks everyone helping us with reviews and bugfixes, as the fixes may be spread around almost all NetBeans codebase. Assuming everything gets sufficiently bugfixed in the next few weeks and a good enough version of VSCode extension is released by Laszlo in the source form, it is then reasonable to ask: What's going to happen next? There has already been a VSCode extension release as Jan wrote: > FWIW, Apache NetBeans has already released the VS Code extension in the past: > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/netbeans-dev/202004.mbox/%3CCALd%3D3dHVyENu%2Bj5o9stvP9_o%2B6FquTdzG7Wx-s-G5-_RdVeaDw%40mail.gmail.com%3E > > https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/netbeans/netbeans-vscode-ext/0.0.1/apache-netbeans-java-0.0.1.vsix Let's repeat it. Let's release a convenience binary with the extension again. I guess one of us, mentioned above, is going to take over the build and vote process. Is that OK? Then, the next step is to upload the extension to [Microsoft Marketplace]( https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/vscode), so it is available to users worldwide and other extensions can depend on it. How do we handle this kind of upload? I am not aware of any Apache project uploading something to the Marketplace. I am not sure if Apache has credentials to do it. If so, great, let's use them. If not, let me suggest (a heretic) approach. My organization has an account. We have already uploaded some extensions in there (like https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=oracle-labs-graalvm.graalvm). Just the uploader would be "oracle-labs" not "jlahoda" (current name in the extension). This touches Apache copyright, so I am not sure if that is OK, but from my perspective it would be just a redistribution of the same source (we can probably modify our scripts to take the name from a property - e.g. `-Dauthor=oracle-labs` would build the extension ready for upload from the released sources). Last, but not least. What shall be the name of the extension? I've heard following suggestion: > *After a while I incline towards* *:* *> - NetBeans Java Language Server* *> - NetBeans Language Server* *> 2nd is more language neutral for the future extensions of this server.* Clearly, even if the extension gets uploaded by a non-Apache party, I'd like to keep the NetBeans trademark in there. Good promotion of the work Apache community provides! I hope we find a way to do so. Assuming there is a way, what name the Apache community wants to give to this `.vsix` convenience binary? Thank you for your support and opinions. -jt
