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NuGet Package Status Indicators

Open kvenkatrajan opened this issue 1 year ago • 0 comments

Summary

Background

Goal of this feature: Contribute to the security and reliability of the NuGet ecosystem by having a way to provide discoverable, timely, and actionable notifications to users regarding the health of their NuGet packages.

Initial Spec: https://github.com/NuGet/Home/pull/11838

Experience Requirements

  • Notification: icons which will surface on package nodes in the solution explorer to indicate various issues with the package (deprecated package, vulnerability, update needed)
  • Details/Information:
  1.   Actionable warning notification

  2.   Info tip or Inline error message text under the node in question
  • Action: There must be a way to interact with the warning to take you to manage package details. Right-click to open view of package in question in NuGet Package Manager
  • Opt-out: A way for users to opt out of the feature at an IDE level

More information at: AB#1503715

User Impact

By surfacing vulnerability information to the Solution Explorer we are making it super easy for users to notice and fix issues with their packages.

kvenkatrajan avatar Jun 20 '23 13:06 kvenkatrajan