The ultimate goal for this extension is to offer a smooth contribution experience for any developer. The development efforts will be focused on turning contribution guidelines into a live pair coding experience, helping any developer find a starter contribution opportunity, and ensuring alignment between the contribution goal and the project's priorities. The extension collects limited usage data to improve the products and services offered by Quack. Users have the option to anonymize or disable this data collection.
Key takeaways:
- The Quack Companion is a VSCode extension that guides users through their code contributions with Quack as a companion. It provides curated contribution guidelines from maintainers and assists users in meeting them.
- Once installed, the extension offers a new tab with guidelines for automatic compliance of contribution guidelines and a feature called "Code chat" which is coming soon.
- The extension collects limited usage data to improve the products and services offered by Quack. This data collection can be anonymized or completely disabled by the user.
- Quack AI encourages contributions to improve the interface or submit new feature ideas. A short guide is provided in CONTRIBUTING to help grow the project.