Log file uploader - client side, master issue

[roblourens]

Earlier experiment is at https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/tree/verbose-logging-mode

General tasks

• Move uploader extension into core
• Use fewer dependencies (no archiver or azure storage npm modules)

UX

Basic user flow

• User files bug, we ask user to launch with --log trace, then run command "Upload logs", then copy the blob ID back into the issue
• And alternately, user collects logs, runs "Upload logs". When complete it shows a notification with 3 buttons: Review logs, File issue, Cancel. User selects File Issue, which uploads the logs then opens github with the blob ID pre-filled in the issue template

UX Tasks

• How to invoke "I want to upload logs"? Originally was a status bar item. Could keep that and just make it visible when you're at a non-default log level.
• Implement three buttons: review, file issue (upload and then create issue with blob ID), cancel
• Upload progress indicator

[roblourens]

and cc @joaomoreno @sandy081 @jrieken

[augb]

Any plans to allow non-VS Code projects to make use of this functionality via an API or via some other means?

[roblourens]

Not at the moment.

[mjbvz]

Closing this out.

We moved to use the CLI for this instead of VS Code UI. The new --upload-logs command line options walks you through uploading logs from the currently running session