Dev Meetings

Purpose

Developers and everyone interested meet every Tuesday at 4 PM CET, to discuss anything related to the development of Theia. If you want to bring up a specific topic at the next meeting, please add it to the agenda below. We have a backup session every Wednesday at 5 PM CET for more detailed discussions identified on Tuesday (same meeting link)

Meeting details

https://eclipse.zoom.us/j/87062337291?pwd=S0JzVEdOS0NkNFJ0VU1rbzZURUtKQT09

2024-11-12

• [Matthew] Local AI in Theia IDE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KWtuDbXoI8
• [Mark] PR for adding esbuild support is ready. See #14414.
• [Stefan] Inversify issues. Symptom and fix.

2024-11-05

• [Jonas] The Theia release in December is proposed for 16th.
• [Thomas] Trouble in npm land: https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia/issues/13948#issuecomment-2456773953

2024-10-29

• [Mark] Is there general interest to switch to a faster bundling tool (like ESbuild)?
• [Jonas] Reminder: NPM switch is upcoming
• [Jonas] Mark: Please review Yeoman Template
• [Jonas] Reminder: We will set up a dependency update process after the release and distribute tasks
• [Jonas] Please help with triaging (and fixing) new bug reports
• [Jonas] Unmet peer dependency warnings?

2024-10-22

• [Jonas] Almost everybody is at OCX

2024-10-15

• [Jonas] Theia IDE is now available on Snap! see https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia-ide-snap

2024-10-08

• [Jonas] Investigate / Get rid of dependency warnings see this discussion
• [Thomas] Theia plugin yeoman generator: do we still want this and if not, how to lay it to rest?
• [Thomas] Theia IDE installer, what are our needs? AppImage does not work OOTB.
• [Stefan] Update on browser-only file system
• [Stefan] Update on Lumino migration

2024-10-01

• [Jonas] Yeoman => Mark and Thomas could you have a look?
• [Jonas] Roadmap for Q4/2024 added, please have a look and refine

2024-09-24

• [Jonas] Sorry, I cannot make it today, Mark or Thomas please take over
• [Jonas] Release scheduled this Thursday, please spend time on review
• [Jonas] Roadmap for Q4/2024 added, please have a look and refine

2024-09-17

• [Thomas] Should we hide internal objects from API? https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia/issues/13522
• [Stefan/Thomas] The new AI feature has a 1 package/feature approach. How granular do we want to be?
• [Jonas] How to handle previous committers of Theia Cloud (Olaf and Lucas). Both have 13 contributions to Theia, too

2024-09-10

• [Jonas] New logo proposal
• [Thomas] Heads up: VS Code getting serious re: ESM
  • https://devclass.com/2024/09/05/visual-studio-code-is-migrating-its-own-source-code-to-ecmascript-modules/
  • https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/226260
• [Jonas] Publishing Theia IDE on Ubuntu Store see here
• [Jonas] TheiaCon: Save the date and call for papers! https://www.eclipse.org/events/2024/theiacon/

2024-09-03

• [Jonas] Theia IDE state and test
• [Jonas] Collaboration feature is merged, congrats!

2024-08-20

• [Jonas] Get rid of manual example and improve Yeoman Generator
• [Jonas] TheiaCon: Save the date and call for papers! https://www.eclipse.org/events/2024/theiacon/
• [Jonas] Upcoming community release (candidate was 1.52). Anything to patch?
• [Jonas] Integrate Collaboration Feature into the Theia IDE?
• [Jonas] PRs are pilling up, please spend some time on reviews
• [Jonas] Collaboration feature for 1.53, Theia AI for 1.54?

2024-08-13

• [Thomas] Everyone O.K. with move to npm (https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia/issues/13948)?
• [Thomas] Doc on https://theia-ide.org/docs/ is misleading people: update or replace with links?
• [Jonas] Theia Support GPT

2024-08-06

• [Jonas] Switching away from Yarn v1?
• [Jonas] Vertical tabs?
• [Thomas] File system path capitalization: strategy and consequences? context: 13987
• [Thomas] Stop supporting Node 16: let's make a decision. => All for it, decided
• [Thomas] NSFW drop (https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia/issues/14015)
• [Jonas] Theia AI!!

2024-07-30

• [Jonas] On an internal workshop, sending regards

2024-07-23

• [Mark] Require Node.js v18 as a minimum version? See also #13943
  • Reference: Node Runtime Policy
• [Many people]: On vacation, sending regrets, e.g. Thomas, Jonas, etc.

2024-07-16

2024-07-09

• [Mark] Deprecate preview support for Markdown files? (see also #13895)
• [Thomas] CI instability
  • download:plugins https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia/issues/13902
  • Mac jobs failing without good reason or not starting
  • Node 16 vs (>= 18) example
• [Jonas] I am on vacation next week
• [Jonas] Working on an article "Theia IDE vs VS Code"

2024-07-02

• [Thomas] Enable tests on all platforms update: node-pty uses "ConPTY" on Windows. This seems to be unstable:
  • Platform differences in fork behavior
  • Debugging hangs
  • Tests fail with weird, internal errors (Uncaught Exception: Error: read EPIPE)
  • affected packages: task, process Process subsystem needs work to handle ConPTY on Windows: maintenance of node-pty is sluggish.
• [Jonas] Theia IDE press release: https://newsroom.eclipse.org/news/announcements/eclipse-foundation-introduces-theia-ide-elevate-modern-developer-experience
• [Jonas] Theia Cloud => Theia?
• [Jonas] Check Roadmap for Q3
• [Jonas] 1.51 preview testing on going: https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia/discussions/13870
• [Mark] Collaboration Feature: E2E encryption is done, working on OAuth/OpenIDConnect connect now. Official release afterwards.

2024-06-25

• [Mark] We now have a public instance of the collaboration feature available over at https://api.open-collab.tools. It is now ready for a final review. Don't be too harsh on the code, we plan to iterate on it in the coming weeks.

2024-06-18

• [Mark] Revisiting the state of the Tab API and the flexibility of the application shell.

2024-06-11

• [Mark] Kind request for reviews - almost half of all open PRs are mine. They are mostly small, localized changes that fix actual community issues, so please take a few minutes to review them.
• [Thomas] Theia IDE GA state of play

2024-06-04

• [Thomas] Should we turn on yarn browser test on Windows/MacOS PR checks?
• [Jonas] We now deprecate Theia/Git, any final veto?
• [Jonas] Switch away from yarn (e.g. to NPM), any thoughts? Maybe switch to Yarn 4.0, Consider SBOM
• [Jonas] Theia IDE GA is delayed (by press release), new date June 13th or later, we might use 1.50

2024-05-28

• [Mark] Opinions on the new VSCode Chat API?

2024-05-21

• [Jonas] Roadmap updated, please have a look
• [Jonas] I am ooo next week

2024-05-14

• Collaboration feature gets ready for review again

2024-05-07

• [Jonas] Release State: Announcement and IDE available tomorrow. Press release for Theia IDE GA next week May 16th
• [Thomas] We have 182 labels. Let's bring that to max. 30.
• [Thomas] Volunteer for next built-in update to validate new doc? => Mark agreed to give it a try

2024-04-30

• [Jonas] 1.49 Release and current state
• [Jonas] 1.50 scheduled for June 3rd (instead of May 30th)

2024-04-23

• [Mark] The latest versions of Node v18 and v20 broke our build processes. See #13613.
• [Thomas] Blockers for Theia IDE release? see (#13192)
• [Jonas] Release scheduled for April 29th, Theia IDE GA for May 16th

2024-04-16

There was nothing to discuss

2024-04-09

• [Thomas] Theia IDE preview testing: looking for volunteers! Process
• [Jonas] I am ooo next week

2024-03-19

• [Jonas] Rename Blueprint repo!?
• [Jonas] Update built-ins: How and how often?
• [Thomas] Patching libraries (update) https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia/issues/13501
• [Jonas] Upcoming: Community release and Theia IDE GA

2024-03-12

• [Jonas] Github link for Theia IDE and more, see this PR
  • Merge Theia IDE into main repo?
  • Link to Theia IDE repo on front page or in docu?
  • Provide Docker container for Theia IDE?
  • Slightly adapt project goals?
• [Thomas] patching libraries (Phosphor)

2024-03-05

• [Jonas] April Release on Monday 29th instead of Thursday 25th
• [Jonah] Question: Would someone have some time this month to take on some notebook-PRs
• [Thomas] Theia IDE releases
  • If we find blockers in testing, we'll have to do a Theia patch release
  • Release timing vs. Theia release
  • When do we skip a release?
• [Jonas] FYI, there will be a 1.47.1 release

2024-02-27

• [Marc] A Theia-inspired 3PP license check script, that wraps dash-licenses, is now available as an easily-integrated npm package: @eclipse-dash/[email protected]. See this example of a PR integrating it in a new repo.
• [Jonas] Theia IDE leave Beta in March or April?
• [Jonas] ECA issues

2024-02-20

• [Thomas] Extractable editors: current state + next steps [#13163](https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia/issues/13163]
• [Thomas] New API: Support to capture terminal contents https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia/issues/13085
• [Stefan] Splash Screen

2024-02-13

• [Mark/Vacation] Please label your PRs - Most of the recent PRs were unlabeled, and it makes searching to specific changes pretty difficult.
• [Jonas] Community call upcoming
• [Jonas] Lots of open, but apporved PRs: https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+review%3Aapproved
• [Jonas] Next community release

2024-02-06

• [Jonas] Patch release 1.46.1 available. The release fixes the following regression https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia/commit/9a51317fe81a179e9e7c6c9071e9a00218bba299
• [Jonas] Lots of open, but apporved PRs: https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+review%3Aapproved

2024-01-30

• [Mark] Collaboration support is now online. Still a draft, but people can already test it, while I'm finishing up the code.
• [Stefan] Multi Instance Support in Theia
• [Jonas] Present collaboration support at community call?
• [Jonas] Discousre migration done (import ongoing)
• [Jonas] Help wanted on Theia IDE issues: https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia/issues/13192
• [Jonas] Monaco upgrade PR is ready for review (for next release): https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia/pull/13217

2024-01-23

• [Jonas] Community release was one month to early => stick with it...
• [Jonas] Discourse migration:
  • Migrated test discussion (please review format and report to me): https://github.com/eclipse-theia/discourse-forum-archive/discussions/5
  • Step 1: Post in discourse and change link on website
  • Step 2: Get latest data and migrate to Github archive repo. Add posts in discourse and Github discussions announcing the archive
  • Step 3: Shut down discourse (save data) (TypeFox)
• [Jonas] Help wanted on Theia IDE issues: https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia/issues/13192
• [Jonas] Monaco upgrade PR is ready for review (for next release): https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia/pull/13217
• [Mark] Short demo/preemptive Q&A of the collaboration feature

2024-01-16

• [Mark] Collaboration support will be ready for an initial review starting this week
• [Mark] Does anyone know whether there's a way to "undeploy" an extension from open-vsx? See also https://github.com/EclipseFdn/open-vsx.org/issues/2294
• [Jonas] Mark Theia Git extension as deprecated now!?
• [Thomas] Outcome of ESM discussion: https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia/issues/13272
• [Thomas] Monaco upgrade PR is ready for review: https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia/pull/13217
• [Thomas] Community patch release. So far:
  • https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia/pull/13250
• [Jonas] Thanks to everyone for beeing active on reviews again (after Christmas break)
• [Stefan] Phosphor.js => Lumino

2024-01-09

• [Jonas] Close Dicourse and use Github discussions only. Should we migrate data from discourse?
• [Thomas] Complete retirement github.com/theia-ide by moving vscode fork to eclipe-theia?
• [Thomas] Move Theia to ESM modules?
  • [Mark] See also this issue that would be improved if we were to use ESM modules
• [Jonas] Who has npm access? Who wants / needs?
• [Jonas] Theia IDE published!
• [Jonas] Theia IDE release process / Update Channels

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vRx66RkkEwhf6od6IALW0PVM1VDogXi2YfSe7BCwwHEvHpzd2wVdslYFefzZpcrB739ri6Sc-3sFkHg/pub?start=true&loop=true&delayms=3000