Don't notify the user about updates

[Tyriar]

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Summary

We are trying to reduce "notification fatigue" and this one seems very much not useful:

The update's content was:

• vscode-powershell
  ✨ 💭 vscode-powershell #4093 - Change storageUri to globalStorageUri for log and session files.
• PowerShellEditorServices v3.4.7

Which definitely doesn't seem important enough to interrupt the user. Also consider if all of a user's extensions do this they could be getting 1+ notifications a day on average? Some users have over 100 extensions installed based on issues we've seen.

This is the VS Code issue tracking a generic extension has updated announcement microsoft/vscode#123906

PowerShell Version

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Visual Studio Code Version

Version: 1.70.0-insider
Commit: 12b08be500f8a307f30e92cbc3ee39ba115eab69
Date: 2022-07-29T10:50:40.282Z
Electron: 18.3.5
Chromium: 100.0.4896.160
Node.js: 16.13.2
V8: 10.0.139.17-electron.0
OS: Darwin x64 21.6.0

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Steps to Reproduce

Wait for an update with auto updates on

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[andyleejordan]

To be fair, that's the preview extension you're seeing an update for. The changelog for the one stable release rolled out last month was much longer.

[Tyriar]

Personally I don't like any extensions doing this even on stable, but VS Code Insiders for example only pops up the release notes webview when a major insiders version change happens

[andyleejordan]

Yeah it's a reasonable ask, I don't like extra noise either. And the ideal situation is that the extension always "just works" and gets better in the background.

[SeeminglyScience]

I agree that it'd be better if we kept the notification to large changes. Even ignoring the fact that it can be annoying, the more folks click Show Release Notes and it's a small change the less likely they are to click that button next time.

Also a "Don't show again" button might be advisable.

[andyleejordan]

I doubt anyone would miss it if we turned it off.

[fflaten]

If/when there are new user-facing features and documented like VSCode release notes, then it would be nice to get a notification. With the current issue-list format, its probably not necessary.

[Tyriar]

Thanks @andschwa 👍