Storage for extensions

[ryankscott]

Problem to solve

Our current Sourcegraph extensions can only request data on the client-side, in real-time when viewing a file or folder, and don't persist any data. This means they can end up being flaky (if the API is unavailable) and this information can be only used within the extension and no where else in our product.

By storing information from third parties we take a step towards being a code intelligence platform that ties together all of the tools developers use and enable our other products (e.g. Code Insights) to incorporate third party data. We also believe this is a good step towards making our extensions more reliable and improving the quality of our product (a Q2 focus)

Relevant feedback

Product Gaps

• None

Productboard feedback

• Storage for extensions

Analytics

• N/A

Measure of success

• We have a technical design for how we can store data for extensions
• We have created a first version that stores third party data
• We have implemented at least one extension using this new storage
• We have validated that this is a customer problem and created a vision for the product

Solution summary

Artifacts:

• TO DO

What specific customers are we iterating on the problem and solution with?

• TO DO

Impact on use cases

Delivery plan

• [ ] TO DO

[sourcegraph-bot-2]

Heads up @muratsu @jjinnii @ryankscott - the "team/integrations" label was applied to this issue.