Jupyter: Iteration Plan for April 2023

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This plan captures our work in April 2023. We follow the same iteration cycle as VS Code. Although we plan for a whole iteration, we may not only ship at the end of an iteration but throughout.

Plan Items

Below is a summary of the top level plan items.

Legend of annotations:

Mark	Description
🏃	work in progress
✋	blocked task
💪	stretch goal for this iteration
🔁	repeating activity from iteration to iteration
🔴	missing issue reference
🔵	more investigation required to remove uncertainty
⚫	under discussion within the team

General

• Adopt onWillSaveNotebookDocument in image attachment cleaner vscode#179211 @Yoyokrazy
• 🏃 Explore support for notebook.codeActionsOnSave vscode#179213 @Yoyokrazy
• Add "Restart and run all", "Restart and run above" kernel management commands vscode-jupyter#9242 @Yoyokrazy

Kernels

• Missing C++ runtime caused zeromq to fail on Windows vscode-jupyter#13091 @DonJayamanne
• Provide API to open a notebook and preselect a specific kernel vscode-jupyter#13251 @DonJayamanne
• Show whether a remote kernel is busy when reconnecting after reload vscode-jupyter#13275 @DonJayamanne
• Explore reconnecting a running cell after reload vscode-jupyter#13276 @DonJayamanne

Codespaces

• Explore how to keep a codespace alive on long-running cell executions vscode-jupyter#13281 @rebornix

Engineering

• Explore adoption of platform specific extensions vscode-jupyter#13085 @DonJayamanne @rebornix
• 💪 Review how we start local Jupyter Servers vscode-jupyter#12831 @DonJayamanne
• 💪 Explore how to simplify the code for managing connections to local and remote Jupyter Servers vscode-jupyter#12832 @DonJayamanne

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Deferred

• 💪 Explore files synchronization for Jupyter servers vscode-jupyter#1601 @rebornix @DonJayamanne
• 🏃 Allow disabling "justMyCode" in Interactive Window with ipykernel debugging vscode-jupyter#11777 @roblourens
• 🏃 Investigate debugpy hangs in Jupyter debugging debugpy#1051 @roblourens
• 💪 Use setPydevdSourceMap for IW and Notebook debugging vscode-jupyter#12643 @roblourens
• 💪 Support subprocess debugging with Jupyter vscode-jupyter#9886 @roblourens