Publish to OpenVSX

[filiptronicek]

Hi there @bmewburn 👋! Please publish this extension to the Open VSX marketplace.

Context

Unfortunately, as Microsoft prohibits usages of the Microsoft marketplace by any other products or redistribution of .vsix files from it, in order to use VS Code extensions in non-Microsoft products, we kindly ask that you take ownership of the VS Code extension namespace in OpenVSX and publish this extension on Open VSX.

What is OpenVSX? Why does it exist?

OpenVSX is a vendor neutral alternative to the MS marketplace used by most other derivatives of VS Code like VSCodium, Gitpod, OpenVSCode, Theia-based IDEs, and so on.

How can you publish to Open VSX?

The setup itself is pretty easy, but it is the easiest when setup in a CI pipeline like a simple GitHub Action workflow. Me and my colleagues wrote a document describing the whole process of publishing. Feel free to ask anything if this sounds like something that makes sense for you to implement. I would love to help with anything I can!

This is a really big extension on Microsoft Marketplace and I would really love to see it published, because so many people including me use a non-Microsoft VS Code distribution every day. It does indeed require some work to get it set up, but I really think it can be done pretty fast with the aforementioned guide.

[zaherg]

@filiptronicek you can find the extension published at Open VSX here https://open-vsx.org/extension/bmewburn/vscode-intelephense-client

[filiptronicek]

Hey @zaherg, thanks for the link. I am aware the extension is being published to OpenVSX, but the issue there is that it is not published by its authors / maintainers. It is published by a repository from OpenVSX, https://github.com/open-vsx/publish-extensions/, which I maintain. The goal is to remove it from there since it is an automated publishing script prone to errors with very minimal changes upstream.

[zaherg]

I see your point hopefully the author will help