[tomvault]

Johannes here from Gitpod. Shared some background about differences on Twitter already: https://twitter.com/jolandgraf/status/1442850063953313805?s=...

Essentially, we run nightly builds at OpenVSCode Server making it as upstream to VS Code as possible. In contrast to other forks the whole scope of the project is to add a minimal set of changes (specifics about what we added https://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-server/blob/main/doc...)

The architecture we use powers both Gitpod and GitHub Codespaces. Several of the devs and organisations that have asked for our implementation & now have adopted OpenVSCode Server referenced the following issue at Code-Server (https://github.com/cdr/code-server/issues/3835).

[throwaway284534]

Hey! Thanks for the explanation, but I don’t fully understand the two projects. Is this built with code-server, or do the server parts of Gitpod come from Microsoft? Where should I submit PRs?

[mikenikles]

Hi, Mike from Gitpod here. This project does not use code-server. It is instead a very lightweight server added to the official open source VS Code repo from Microsoft.

We documented this in more detail in the "Source Code Organization" chapter at https://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-server/blob/main/doc....

As to where to submit PRs:

- Anything to do with running VS Code in a server context: gitpod-io/openvscode-server

- Anything else related to VS Code: microsoft/vscode

We have no intention of changing VS Code in any way or to add additional features to VS Code itself.