Recent Activity, Trends, and Priorities at Open VSX
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open-vsx hosts 4,100+ extensions and ~2,200 publishers, averaging ~140k downloads/day (up ~130% YoY) and extension count up 31% YoY with ~100–120 publications daily. Recent work adds deprecate extensions UI, a Swagger compatibility API for VS Code interoperability, Grafana dashboards, automated smoke tests, source‑code scanning, PostGIS robustness, and a fix for an August outage to 98% caused by an Elastic operator issue. Ongoing priorities: shrink the giant file‑pointer table via caching, review a Red Hat dev‑env PR, and expose more download metrics; exploring a sponsorship program.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:04What is Open VSX
- 2:10Industry trends and advantages
- 3:54Use cases and deployments
- 5:29Statistics and extensions
- 6:36New features and improvements
- 9:09Compatibility and API docs
- 10:13Database efficiency and plans
- 11:37Current projects
- 13:23Reliability and growth
- 14:46Top extensions and closing
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