Custom colletion index?

[lesomnus]

I know that devcontainer is now a specification independent of tools like vscode, but most maintainers seem to be related to vscode too, so I'm asking based on my experience with vscode.
I tried to post a question to microsoft/vscode-dev-containers, but I apologize in advance for posting it here, as there is no question template and they do not accept feature requests.

Most of our team uses the vscode devcontainer feature, and there is a devcotnainer template to use in our team. Is there a way to share a template other than adding it to the public index? Because our team is small, we don't think tempalte is suitable for being listed in the public index as it is not generally usable in many environments.

For example, I would like to see a list of devcontainer templates used in the team when running the "Reopen in Container" command in vscode.

According to the spec, it seems to get the collection list from the OCI registry. How about providing a guideline so that make the supporting tools (e.g. vscode) can set the OCI reference list of the collection to be referenced?

[joshspicer]

I think this is a great idea, and something I will bring up at our internal planning meeting. This should be quite feasible to do technically.

[MLong-Sorenson]

Any updates? This would be a huge benefit for my development team as well.

I'm curious to know why template functionality is limited to an OCI registry. We just want to implement a template using the existing process (https://github.com/devcontainers/spec/blob/main/proposals/devcontainer-templates.md#option-resolution), and then distribute a custom devcontainer-template.json within the same repo as a custom devcontainer.json.

[MarlonPassos-git]

@joshspicer some update?

[joshspicer]

Unfortunately this is not something the team has been able to prioritize