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Improving the use of OpenSAFELY in Codespaces
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Remove extraneous notifications for Codespaces #31

Closed StevenMaude closed 5 months ago

StevenMaude commented 7 months ago

By removing unnecessary notifications in Codespaces, we can make it simpler for a user to follow a Codespaces setup — because there are fewer potential distractions and decisions to make — and it reduces the amount of explanation we need in our documentation

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During #4, we noticed a couple of distracting VSCode notifications that appear in the process of completing the Getting Started guide:

The relevant OpenSAFELY documentation (#6) should also be reviewed to see if we can remove text alluding to notifications that we remove. This is most likely the Getting Started guide (#30).

We should aim to minimise any other notifications like this if we spot them.

Jongmassey commented 6 months ago

Alternatively, I think both of these could be silenced by changing the vs code settings file in the research template?

StevenMaude commented 6 months ago

Alternatively, I think both of these could be silenced by changing the vs code settings file in the research template?

That's a nice idea. And there is a "do not disturb" mode that acts a more global toggle. But I can't find anything in the settings.json to configure "do not disturb" as default, unfortunately.

Setting a git.autofetch option might silence that related notification though.

lucyb commented 5 months ago

Added here https://github.com/opensafely/research-template/pull/117