redhat-developer / redhat-developer/vscode-redhat-telemetry
Official recommendation of registering redhat.telemetry.enabled is against vscode official practices
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Description
It appears that only one extension is allowed to contribute a specific configuration property, such redhat.telemetry.enabled.
If user has more than one extension that tries to do this, it will popup a runtime warning message like below that complains about it:

AFAIK, the only solution known is not to register it and eventually use separate unique settings. The funny aspect is that we already have at least 3 extensions registering the same property:
- https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=redhat.vscode-yaml
- https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=redhat.ansible
- https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=redhat.vscode-commons -- which to me looks like an unmaintained attempt to isolate this feature in a separate extension. Last update was many years ago.
What should we do to address this?
References
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 reviewing how redhat.telemetry.enabled is registered and compare the referenced VS Code, YAML, and Ansible issues. The work is done when the extensions no longer trigger the duplicate configuration-property warning and the chosen approach is documented or reflected across the affected extensions.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript, vscode
- Domain
- developer-experience, tooling
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100