Dev Meetings

Purpose

Developers and everyone interested meet every Tuesday at 4 PM CET, to discuss anything related to the development of Theia. If you want to bring up a specific topic at the next meeting, please add it to the agenda below. We have a backup session every Wednesday at 5 PM CET for more detailed discussions identified on Tuesday (same meeting link)

Meeting details

https://eclipse.zoom.us/j/87062337291?pwd=S0JzVEdOS0NkNFJ0VU1rbzZURUtKQT09

2025-07-22

• [Mark] https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia/discussions/16001

2025-07-15

• [Stefan] Process for critical issues with new Theia IDE releases (Motivation #15981)
• [Jonas] OOO next week

2025-07-08

• [Mark] Summer vacations have started - light attendance, no topics.

2025-07-01

• [Stefan] Theia AI UI fragments in adopter tools when only plugin support is included #15927

2025-06-24

• [Thomas] Drop support for Node 18 #15857
• [Thomas] Design issues for https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia/issues/15635. How to proceed?
• [Jonas] Upcoming release

2025-06-17

• [Mark] VSCode now supports ESM-only plugins. We should follow-up, or will lose support for those plugins.
• [Jonas]: Lots of open PRs, please spare some time for reviews

2025-06-03

• Light attendance due to EclipseSource's Hackerthon. No topics.

2025-05-27

• [Rémi] Patch release 1.61.1 - https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia/issues/15645
• [Stefan] Help adopters with common build issues (e.g. duplicated extensions) during theia build
  • Created #15660
• [Simon] Electron version update/process for updating (major) dependencies
• [Mark] Remote WSL feature merge today

2025-05-20

• [Stefan] Make user preferences available in backend?
  • Created #15635

2025-05-13

• [Thomas] 1.61.0 IDE release planned for tomorrow
• 1.62.0 scheduled one day earlier, on May 28th, due to a public holiday.

2025-05-06

• [Jonas]: Jonas OOO May 13th and 20th
• [Jonas] Status 1.61 Release

2025-04-29

• [Remi] Tools to evaluate dependencies usage? https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia/issues/15531
• [Rémi] Release 1.61 https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia/discussions/15529

2025-4-22

• [Remi] 1.61.0 endgame issue: https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia/issues/15494

2025-04-15

• [Jonas] 1.60.2 Hotfix release on-going
• [Jonas] Heads-up: release already next week, candidate for next community release
• [Jonas] Let's decide in the beginning of a release cycle when to do the next release for now
• [Jonas] Next release May 28

2025-04-08

• [Rémi] Backports on release 1.60 : https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia/issues/15419
• [Rémi] Backports on latest community 1.58.5: https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia/issues/15213
• [Jonàs] Remove Git extension from release!
• [Jonas] Interesting article: https://thenewstack.io/eclipse-theia-the-deepseek-of-ai-tooling/

2025-04-01

• [Stefan] Logger guidelines: Proposal to use named loggers "everywhere". See #15359
• [Jonas] Set up a chat channel
• [Thomas] Release current state and timeline

2025-03-25

• [Thomas] State of the release: https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia/issues/15216

2025-03-18

• [Rémi] Pre-release 1.60 - https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia/issues/15216
• [Jonas] Update Roadmap
• [Simon] Input for z-index guide wanted #15214
• [Matthew] A little time for the article
• [Jonas] Dedicated Theia AI page upcoming
• [Thomas] 48 open PR's and more coming. What are our priorities?

2025-03-11

• [Thomas] Stop writing code! (too many open PR's).

2025-03-04

• [Stefan] Lumino migration state and next steps
• [Thomas] 1.58 patch release, see https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia/issues/15076
• [Jonas] Theia AI and "alpha" AI-powered Theia IDE release - end game update
• [Thomas] Issues filed on theia-ide repo

2025-02-25

• [Thomas] Issues for 1.59? #14998
• [Thomas] Build failures on ubuntu22/node22 #14980
• [Jonas] Upcoming release: thursday morning, please raise blockers in the discussion

2025-02-18

• [Thomas]: state patch release
• [Jonas]: Pre-pre-release ( :-) )

2025-02-11

• [Jonas] Focus on stability in 1.59 due to Theia AI leaving beta?
• [Jonas] Next release: Theia AI => GA, Theia IDE AI => alpha. So we would kindly ask the community to focus on stability!
• [Thomas] Let's introduce the concept of "active element" instead of relying on focus for action enablement #14879
• [Rémi] Patch release for 1.58? (https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia-ide/issues/462)
• [Matthew] Any recommendation on what to evaluate next with respect to local llm code assistants? e.g. new models? new queries? other? see here StarCoder
• [Jonas] Theia IDE very slow on (some) macs? https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia-ide/issues/461

2025-02-04

• [Thomas] "npm ci" vs "npm install". What to use (see https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia/issues/14804)
• [Thomas] How to handle "ESM-only" modules, e.g. @modelcontextprotocol/sdk
• [Jonas] Theia IDE / Theia release => current state

2025-01-21

• [Jonas] Demo of Theia Coder
• [Matthew] DeepSeek Token

2025-01-21

• [Thomas] Progress of Monaco update: #14726 To ESM or not to ESM?

2025-01-14

• [Thomas] What do we think about parameter objects? When does it make sense?

2025-01-07

• [Thomas] EditorConfig plugin: shall we remove it? https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia/issues/14706
• [Stefan] Consensus on backport strategy. See #14652 for context.
• [Stefan] Current state Lumino migration.
• [Rémi] Monaco update for 1.58?
• [Thomas] State of the npm switch (https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia/pull/14481)
• [Simon] Input on global vs workspace layout wanted. See #14577
• [Jonas] Theia AI release strategy