Add support for Gitpod

[ajhalili2006]

Proposed Changes

1. Adds .gitpod.yml to automatically configure Git to set core.autocrlf to true and installs extensions from Open VSX that are recommended by the project.
2. Adds a Python script for synchronization of .vscode/extensions#recommendations to .gitpod.yml#vscode.extensions

Roadblockers in adding Gitpod support

• Gitpod Community Forum and Issue Tracker: [code] Does not work with alpine  gitpod-io/gitpod#3356, https://community.gitpod.io/t/workspace-doesnt-start-with-custom-docker-image/3806/5
• Other forks of VS Code:
  • code-server: Add Alpine to releases coder/code-server#3431
• Upstream docs: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/linux#_tips-by-linux-distribution

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[ajhalili2006]

For the documentation stuff, maybe it should be on contributing docs, which I'll write soon.

[ajhalili2006]

I just do a git pull upstream master --rebase to keep in sync eariler.

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[ajhalili2006]

Just rebased against the latest commits from the main branch, still working on the custom workspace Dockerfile.

[ajhalili2006]

Rebased again against main, with the latest commit related to ignoring some Hadolint warnings and errors, particularly pining some package versions in pip, gem, and npm, WORKDIR-related stuff and using latest tag for the custom Gitpod workspace image Dockerfile I'm still working on.

[nvuillam]

@ajhalili2006 Do you manually write the gitpod Dockerfile ?

If yes, I strongly suggest to automate it, else it will be too long to maintain (all Dockerfiles content are coming from descriptors and generated using build.py

If you want I can manage the automation later, but please at least keep the comments I use for replacements :) (#NPM__START, #NPM__END, #PIP__START, #PIP__END, etc .... :) )

Or if the images are similar, maybe you could base your dockerfile on megalinter/megalinter:beta and add what you need after ? ( like in Dockerfile-quick)

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[ajhalili2006]

I tried using the main Dockerfile in a test GitLab repo, and it's failed with the following error:

cannot ensure Gitpod user exists: [adduser -h /home/gitpod -s /bin/sh -D -G 33333 -u 33333 gitpod]: exit status 1: adduser: unknown group 33333

Maybe because its assume that the base image is Debian-based and reproducing some parts of gitpod/workspace-base.¹

So maybe I'll rewrite the Gitpod Dockerfile to include only the required Python packages within the repo, and the rest maybe run as part of the container using the main Dockerfile.

Footnotes

1. ref: https://github.com/gitpod-io/gitpod/issues/3356#issuecomment-963038577 ↩

[ajhalili2006]

Since I force pushed stuff with lease, old commits can be found at https://github.com/ajhalili2006/mega-linter/tree/old-draft/gitpodify-repo branch.

[nvuillam]

Still draft ? :)

[ajhalili2006]

Hey @nvuillam, Sorry for the long wait. I'm going to rebase the branch later to ensure its in sync with the main branch.

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