Contribute your extension to open-vsx (to support VSCode forks)

[mdrejhon]

Many VSCode forks can only use open-vsx at https://open-vsx.org/ -- just click the PUBLISH button at upper right corner and follow the instructions.

Some features are only available in VSCode forks that are not in the main Microsoft Visual Studio Marketplace.

The process of creating an open-vsx submission is pretty easy, you can use your existing February 2024 release to submit.

[mdrejhon]

For now, workaround:

1. Click "Download Extension" to get vsix from
   https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=sandcastle.vscode-open
2. In your custom VSCode fork -> Extensions -> triple dots [...] -> Install from vsix -> Select this file
3. vscode-open appears to work fine in multiple VSCode forks

Background of improved UX of open-vsx

Many of these IDEs sync to your existing .vscode extensions but sometimes refuse to sync if the extension is not visible concurrently in both Visual Studio Marketplace & in open-vsx so doesn't automatically copy the extension over.

By having it in open-vsx, users who install VSCode forks (on a system that already has VSCode) will often automatically have this extension sync'd with their VSCode extension install list too. And be able to open the same project in either VSCode and VSCode forks with all their favourite extensions already automatically installed.