microsoft / microsoft/vscode-remote-release
Prompt user to select devcontainer config when more than one available.
Open
Nobody has claimed this yet.
containers
feature-request
- Dominant language
- Dockerfile
- Stars
- 4.2k
- Forks
- 470
- Avg merge
- 1d 1h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 1
Description
Hello,
I was wondering if we could get a similar flow as the one outlined here for codespaces allowing the user to select a devcontainer config when more than one is available.
https://github.com/devcontainers/spec/issues/100#issuecomment-1253942193
Spec Reference
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the referenced Codespaces discussion and the devcontainer-reference.md specification linked in the issue. Then locate the remote-development flow that discovers multiple devcontainer configurations; done means a user can select among available configurations before one is opened.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- docker, vscode
- Domain
- developer-experience, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100