Add Eclipse Update Site for GitHub Copilot plug-in to the page

[thahnen]

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What article on docs.github.com is affected?

https://github.com/github/docs/blob/main/content/copilot/managing-copilot/configure-personal-settings/installing-the-github-copilot-extension-in-your-environment.md#about--data-variablesproductprodname_copilot--in-eclipse

What part(s) of the article would you like to see updated?

Currently, it only contains the info to download the plug-in from the Eclipse marketplace. For users not relying on the Eclipse Marketplace or don't have the marketplace plug-in installed in the IDE or just want to download the P2 Repository for hosting it/mirroring it locally, also link the actual Eclipse Update Site - and maybe give it an easy to use alias URL.

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[felicitymay]

@thahnen - thanks for making this suggestion.

We also mention the Eclipse downloads site in the Prerequisites section above.

If we're going to expand the first step in Installing GitHub Copilot in Eclipse, I suggest that we link to the downloads site in addition to the marketplace.

The link that you suggest seems to require some authentication or preparation because I see:

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ResourceNotFound
The specified resource does not exist. RequestId:6fabf4af-601e-0004-3b47-84d6e9000000 Time:2025-02-21T10:00:11.0146962Z

[thahnen]

Yes, it seems that this is not browsable but when pasting this into the IDE, it works because Eclipse will leverage the metadata correctly.
For making it browsable, maybe take inspiration from the official Eclipse IDE Update Sites to see at least the content.

[felicitymay]

Thanks for the additional context ✨

Where did you find the URL for the update site? Maybe that's somewhere we could link to?

[thahnen]

When installing the Eclipse plug-in from the marketplace it configures that URL into my installation. I was sadly not able to find it anywhere else on the web (or on a repository containing the plug-in source if there is one).

On the Eclipse Marketplace this URL seems to be hardcoded but is not visible anywhere else. Maybe the folks developing the plug-in could help in this case as the URL looks like something hosted on Azure.

[github-actions]

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[nguyenalex836]

@thahnen Thank you so much for raising those issues, as well as the suggestions regarding the URL! ✨

We're going to have our Copilot SMEs take a peek and see if they can offer any guidance 💛 We'll update you as soon as we hear back from them!