⚠️ Looking for Typescript maintainer ⚠️

[equinusocio]

Hello everyone, I'm seeking a JS/TS developer who handles the TS part and vscode API integration. Some parts aren't working, deps need to be updated/migrated and some features need to be redesigned.

After 9 years, I'm planning to distribute this extension behind a one-time small payment (check the poll), there are many reasons behind this decision, and here are some of them:

• Almost zero financial contributions over 9 years. All the time spent to close ALL the issues, update icons, and improve the extension has a cost in my life.
• We have some minimal expenses like website domains and software that I'm paying by myself.
• Almost 0 code contributions over 9 years. Everything has been handled by me and friend js/ts developers (now I'm running out of dev friends)
• We have about 7.8 million users between Material Theme and Material Theme icons. I'm proud you're enjoying this theme, and you can be proud of being part of this project as a developer/maintainer.
• We've encountered several license violations and clones that have affected the credibility and quality of our extension over the years. Some people are convinced to use Material Theme, but in fact, they are using clones that violate our OSS license.

I'm still taking care of the design, "marketing", publications, icons, and other aspects of the extensions related to Material Theme.

The plan

• Find an active ts developer who takes care of the API and features integration
• Rewrite/improve the current state of the extensions and tools (the paid one, the free version will not get any new feature)
• Add new features (new variants, dynamic settings, dynamic/custom color for icons, gradient/flat icons setting, etc)
• Add extension tests (https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-test-cli/tree/main)
• Think about how to distribute the premium extensions, vscode marketplace or using some marketplace like Paddle, Gumroad, etc...
• Get rid of the toxic open-source community

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Italian contributors are preferred for easier communication.