If there's value in us building a VS Code extension, I would recommend opening an idea here: https://ibm-ai-apps.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ describing exactly what you'd like to see the extension do. Customers & business partners can use VS Code for things like source control already today. You can even modify the files in VS Code and then open and build it in the configuration utility.
I cannot represent IBM on this topic (we'd need someone from the product team to respond and the Ideas community is the more appropriate place for that response) but in my personal opinion, the extension as it exists today would not really help a customer or business partner develop applications on the framework.
The docker container provides us a method to configure everything we need in the image to properly build and maintain the apps so that we don't have issues with the developer's machine having the wrong version of something or not having something installed at all. This makes external developers (especially business partners that need to switch between versions) lives significantly easier and development significantly faster because the only dependency they have to worry about is docker and pulling the correct image from the registry.
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Steven Shull
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Original Message:
Sent: Mon November 27, 2023 12:16 PM
From: Dirk Huppertz
Subject: Graphite VSCode plugin
If there is this VSCode plugin, and this makes it easier, faster, more relieable or just better to work with MAF, then partner should also get access to this tool. Why is IBM hiding this tool from the partner? It doesn't correspond to my understanding of a partnership.
It should also be in IBM's interest to enable the partners in the best possible way in order to bring Maximo to the customer in the most efficient way.
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Dirk Huppertz
Senior Project Manager
S&T Deutschland GmbH
Aachen
Original Message:
Sent: Mon November 27, 2023 11:34 AM
From: Steven Shull
Subject: Graphite VSCode plugin
Did you see this on the declarative UI page (http://localhost:3001/maximo-app-framework/graphite-documentation/public/development/declarativeui)? Our only supported method for customers/business partners is the configuration utility. This shouldn't have been visible on the public documentation but was missed unfortunately.
I found it on the page above and have submitted a PR to hide it in the public builds of the documentation but if you saw it somewhere else, please let me know so we can remove those references.
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Steven Shull
Original Message:
Sent: Thu November 23, 2023 01:53 PM
From: Diego Visentin
Subject: Graphite VSCode plugin
The MAF/Graphite documentation v8.11 mentions a VSCode plugin but the link points to IBMers-only git repo https://github.ibm.com
Is there any way for BPs to download and use it?
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Diego Visentin
EAM BU Director
Tempestive S.p.A.
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