Is this extension actively maintained?

[ChrisChinchilla]

I am a technical writer, and even when I'm not doing technical writing, I use VSCode for my writing, so a good word count is pretty essential to me.

If you search for word count, this is the first extension that shows. But it is missing some features that make it accurate, such as the ability to include/exclude code, comments, etc… And there are issues and PRs open that have never been acted on. I guess because this is mostly just an example repo.

I've wanted to update this for some time and make a really usable word count for VS Code. So I made a fork here (https://github.com/ChrisChinchilla/vscode-wordcount) that I intend to maintain and release properly. If anyone wants to move their contributions there, please do, and if this issue ends up bringing life back into this extension instead, then great!

[AnirudhKonduru]

@ChrisChinchilla Your fork doesn't seem to exist anymore, did you delete it? I was hoping you were still maintaining an active fork, as this one seems to have been abandoned

[ChrisChinchilla]

@kondu I ended up finding this extension https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=plus5keen.word-counter suited my needs, sadly it is not open source for contributions, and I contacted the maintainer to no response, so I may get back to maintaining a fork of this repo when I get time.

[jfgilmore]

Hi folks,
I am planning to fork this and open source it if you are interested in coming on as maintainers?

This repo from what I have read was never meant to be used as a maintained plugin but as a sample plugin template for learning purposes. However it's definitely a tool that people use, particularly coding students so I believe it has merit to be maintained as a ongoing project. It will probably reach maturity quickly as it is simple but I can commit to at least maintain it on an ongoing basis.

I will make another post here when done so it can be easily found.

Cheers,
Josh

[ChrisChinchilla]

@jfgilmore Possibly, but as I say, the extension above ended up filling a lot of requirements, and there are a LOT of other word count extensions, it may be better to collaborate on those existing ones instead of creating another new one?