Recommended IDE plugins

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Plugins are central pieces for the development environment. In a team, usage of IDE is diverse: Some would use odo + Eclipse IDE or odo + vscode, or Eclipse Che. The problem is that IDE plugins to install or activate can not be easily shared. If a project needs tooling like a MySQL plugin, how could we have the right plugin installed in VSCode, Eclipse IDE and Eclipse Che?

Describe the solution you'd like A devfile should allow a user to define the plugins he wishes to install. It would be up to the IDE to install them or not. A way to do could be to include plugins recommandation that are not tight to an IDE. these plugins recommandation could be identified with IDs for instance: Each IDE that supports the devfile (natively, with a plugin or generator) could then have a mapping between the devfile plugin IDs and the real plugins or extensions to install.

So these are some example on the plugins id we could have:

• language/java11
• language/quarkus
• guide/didact
• connector/openshift
• scm/git
• scm/github
• database/mysql
• database/postgresql
• database/mongo
• issues/bugzilla
• issues/github
• issues/jira
• etc.

It would then be up to the IDE or a generator to consume the recommanded plugins from the devfile and install/activate the right ones in the IDE.

We could have a dedicated section plugins with a list of plugins that are recommended to be activated or install:

plugins:
  - id: language/typescript
  - id: language/quarkus-java11
  - id: connector/openshift

IDE that doesn't support a plugin could just ignore it.

Additional context Related to : https://github.com/eclipse/che/issues/18892

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