Community Issue Tracking

Welcome, and thank you for your interest in contributing to VS Code!

We have started to involve the most active members of the community in our issue tracking to better load-balance the work and allow for quicker feedback on new issues. The following are the guidelines and extra powers for our community trackers:

Check our "inbox" for new issues and see if any can be helped with:

• If it needs more information, mark it as such with /needsMoreInfo (or /needsPerfInfo for performance issues) and maybe explain what is missing:

  • Does it reproduce with all extensions disabled (--disable-extensions or Reload Window With Extensions Disabled)?
  • For native crashes ask them to follow https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/wiki/Native-Crash-Issues.
  • For non-English reports, ask them to describe the issue in English and suggest a machine translator.

• If a screenshot would be useful, mark it with /gifPlease.

• If it is a duplicate of an existing issue, mark it as such with /duplicate #12345.

  • Optionally let the bot search for duplicates (if it hasn't done so already) with /findDuplicates.

• If it is an issue with an extension from the Marketplace (i.e., not a built-in one), use /causedByExtension and optionally point the user to the repository where they can file the issue for the extension. For some extensions you can do this by using a specific response instead of /causedByExtension:

  • /extC
  • /extC#
  • /extC++
  • /extDocker
  • /extGo
  • /extJava
  • /extJavaDebug
  • /extJS
  • /extJupyter
  • /extLiveShare
  • /extPowershell
  • /extPython
  • /extTS

• If it is a bug you can reproduce, /confirm it and add any additional info that might help the dev team reproduce it.

• If it is a bug you cannot reproduce, use /confirmationPending to label it and add any info that might help the author clarify the steps to reproduce.

• If you know which team member should look at it, use /assign @XYZ.

• If it is a question that is better asked on StackOverflow, use /question to label and close it as such.