proposal - move/donate project to opensource foundation

[mamilic]

As this project has grown significantly and now requires substantial time and effort to maintain, I was wondering if it might be feasible to transition or transfer it to Microsoft or another open-source foundation. Since they already maintain the Java ecosystem for VS Code, they might be well-positioned to manage it effectively.

That said, I’m unsure of the process for such a transition or even if it is a viable option.

I will tag some Java maintainers here, if there is possibilty of this to happen. cc: @rgrunber, @jdneo, @fbricon, @testforstephen, @snjeza

[jdneo]

Hi @mamilic, Thank you for binging this up.

Are you trying to propose this to the repo owner, who is @fwcd?

Or you are actually the same person and you are bringing this proposal to us (Java extension maintainers)?

[mamilic]

Hi @jdneo , no I am not the owner. Actually I am proposing this to @fwcd , and to you, the mainterns of Java Extension. The @fwcd is the maintainer and the owner of this repo. He put a lot of effort to bring the kotlin to VSCode, but seems that he moved to other projects and does not have much time to dedicate to this project. Hope he will be interested.

It would be awesome if the Kotlin could get somewhat "officialy" supported on VSCode, and to get regular updates as the features are added to the language itself. I know it requires a bit of effort, but just wanted to point this out to you guys. If it could happend, great, if not then great again. :smile:

[fwcd]

Hi, I'm sympathetic to the idea of the Java extension team maintaining the Kotlin extension. Note however that the extension is largely just a wrapper around the language server and some features have to be co-developed between both, so that would likely also entail taking over maintenance of the language server. Is that something they/you would be interested in?

[cychen2021]

Hi, I'm sympathetic to the idea of the Java extension team maintaining the Kotlin extension. Note however that the extension is largely just a wrapper around the language server and some features have to be co-developed between both, so that would likely also entail taking over maintenance of the language server. Is that something they/you would be interested in?

Thanks for your effort and hopefully there will be more helpers to maintain the projects. IntelliJ's plugin ecosystem and polyglot support are awful. I'm desperate for fluent Kotlin development using VSCode.