VSCodium in repos
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I'm not sure how new packages get accepted in the Trisquel repos, but would anyone on the team consider adding VSCodium (https://vscodium.com). It is a fully free editor that remover the proprietary bits from Microsoft VS Code.
Wow this is great thank you for sharing.
It has a freedom problem similar to some browsers with non-free add-ons, some of which are nothing more than a frontend to SaaSS. That's something that should be addressed.
@jxself are this non-free add-ons pre installed?, even if they are not and are only offered, it is still a liability of course, but I'm curios to know, since I'm guessing (assuming) that it would be easier to solve the problem by a fork in case the devs are not interested on the proposal. I could open a ticket addressing the issue on their github, but I'll need to know what exactly is the situation. I'll see what I can find on my own. Maybe some one in the fsf could explain better to the devs or the fsf is already informed. We'll see.
VSCodium uses the OpenVSX (see https://open-vsx.org/about) extensions registry. There are many true free/libre extensions available on that registry. While I have not confirmed that codium itself is completely without issue, even if it is, there are also non-free extensions, and as mentioned by jxself, there are "free" extensions that are proxies for (non-free) SaaSS stuff.
At https://www.eclipse.org/community/eclipse_newsletter/2020/march/1.php I just learned about Eclipse Theia and also that "You Can Host Your Own Registry With Eclipse Open VSX Registry." Running a registry is likely a tall order, though. It would be better to be able to filter out badly-licensed extensions by a setting in VSCodium. That may be easy for the extensions themselves, but harder for those extensions that are front-ends for non-free stuff.
We already have Nano, Vim, Emacs, and several others already available in the Trisquel repository.