Provide guidance for Jetbrains Gateway users on whether the plugin needs to be installed on the host, client, or both

[gustakasn0v]

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What article on docs.github.com is affected?

Jetbrains support remote development, ie. the IDE runs headlessly on a remote machine (Host), and your local machine (Client) connects to the remote IDE instance via SSH. See https://www.jetbrains.com/remote-development/gateway/

Plugins can be installed on the Host, or Client, or both. The ambiguity this causes isn't unique to the Copilot plugin, and Jetbrains seems to expect plugin maintainers to provide their own guidance, see https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/articles/SUPPORT-A-696/Where-should-the-plugin-be-installed-in-the-client-or-on-the-host-for-remote-development

Currently, https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/how-tos/set-up/install-copilot-extension?tool=jetbrains offers no guidance on how to install Copilot when using Jetbrains Gateway, and there's a number of bugs when installing the Copilot plugin on the Host (ie. remote IDE instance), see https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IJPL-170858/Github-copilot-not-working-in-gateway and https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IJPL-170887/Copilot-plugin-can-be-installed-on-backend-and-doesnt-work-this-way.

I'd like to ask for guidance to be provided on whether the plugin needs to be installed on the host, client, or both

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

https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/how-tos/set-up/install-copilot-extension?tool=jetbrains

A section should be added explaining how to install the plugin for Jetbrains Gateway users

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[Sharra-writes]

@gustakasn0v Thanks for opening an issue! I'll bring this up to the rest of the team and see what kind of bandwidth we have for it.

[Sharra-writes]

@gustakasn0v Our SMEs told me that JetBrains Gateway is unsupported, as documented here if you scroll down. This should really be in our docs, and our SMEs don't think it is, so I'm going to poke around and see if there would be somewhere obvious to add it. Unfortunately it means we can't help with this issue, so I'm going to close it.