Iteration Plan for August 2021

[kieferrm]

This plan captures our work in August. This is a 4-week iteration. We will ship in early September.

Endgame

• August 23, 2021: Endgame
• August 27, 2021: Endgame done

The endgame details for this iteration are tracked here.

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
🔴	missing issue reference
🔵	more investigation required to remove uncertainty
⚫	under discussion within the team
⬛	a large work item, larger than one iteration

Accessibility

• 🏃 Accessibility issues, see query @isidorn team
• 💪 Improve accessibility of the comments peek view @rebornix vscode#110408

Workbench

• 🏃 Polish trusted folder management particularly for managing paths for remote repositories query @sbatten
• Enable a walkthrough based on the files in the workspace vscode#121778 @JacksonKearl
• Restore active getting started walkthrough on window reload vscode#123525 @JacksonKearl
• 🏃 Continue user testing on new welcome pages vscode#125117 @digitarald
• 🏃 Explore extension content contributions to the welcome page vscode#118402 @digitarald
• 🏃 Add support for drag&drop in custom trees vscode#32592 @alexr00
• Ensure automated language detection does not run in the UI thread vscode#129607 @TylerLeonhardt
• Quick Pick improvements
  • 🏃 Ensure UI stability when updating QickPick.items vscode#109969 @TylerLeonhardt
  • 🏃 Improve matching of numbers/subwords when filtering vscode#130797 @TylerLeonhardt
  • Proposed API for inline actions in QuickPickItems vscode#88716 @TylerLeonhardt
• Explore ways to not pollute editor groups with terminals with other editors vscode#124709 @bpasero @misolori

Web

• 🏃 Improve iPad support (keyboard/trackpad/mouse and touch) query @isidorn team

UX

• 🏃 Explore how to effectively signal limited language support to users, e.g. in untrusted folders vscode#129037 @misolori @daviddossett
• 🏃 Explore how to indicated read-only and deleted files open in editors more effectively vscode#130526 @misolori
• 🏃 Align in-editor peek views (test, problems, references, etc.) UX vscode#130516 @misolori
• 💪 Continue exploration of profiles vscode#116740 @misolori @lydiayschung

Code Editor

• Provide a high performant support for bracket pair colorization vscode#129231 @hediet
• Inline Suggestions: Support Interactions with the suggest Widget vscode#129495 @hediet
• Publish a new Monaco editor release CHANGELOG @hediet

Notebooks

• Enable to create new notebooks from the command line vscode#125028 @bpasero
• 🏃 Explore improvements to the end-to-end experience of opening your first Jupyter (Python) notebook vscode#128592 @misolori team
• 🏃 Improve discoverability of notebook layout and behavior customizability vscode#128549 @misolori @rebornix @roblourens
• 🔴 🏃 💪 Improve discoverability of available/installable output renderers for given mime types @misolori
• 🏃 💪 Explore ways to show execution progress while the execute cell is out of the viewport vscode#130611 @misolori

Notebook Editor

• Improve visual presentation of folded outputs vscode#119776 @rebornix @roblourens
• 🏃 Support notebook content provider, renderers, and controller extensions in the marketplace vscode#123581 @connor4312 @rebornix
• Explore keymaps for notebooks @rebornix @joyceerhl vscode#106679
• Ensure Replace Text works in notebooks vscode#129781 @rebornix
• 🏃 Allow extensions to persist controller meta information in ipynb files vscode#130602 @mjbvz
• 🏃 Improve rendering jitter in notebooks vscode#126432 @roblourens
• 🏃 Explore how to avoid unnecessary transformations to satisfy byte-based storage of OutputItem vscode#130950 @mjbvz
• Review onNotebook activation usage and behavior vscode#129932 @rebornix @roblourens @DonJayamanne
• Provide recommendations how output renderers can probe the activation state of their extension vscode#130499 @rebornix @DonJayamanne

Jupyter Notebooks

• 🏃 Explore debugging in Jupyter notebooks (line-by-line versus full debugging support) vscode#126431 @roblourens @DavidKutu @weinand
• Fix Vim keybinding conflicts in builtin Interactive Window and Notebook vscode#130425 @rebornix @joyceerhl
• 🏃 Contributions to the vscode-jupyter extension vscode-jupyter#7008 team

Languages

• 🏃 Add support for a language status indicator vscode#129037 @mjbvz @jrieken @misolori
• 🏃 Collaborate on Type Hierarchy API with the Java extension team Java team @jrieken @dbaeumer

LSP /LSIF

• None.

JavaScript/TypeScript

• 🏃 Adopt and ship TS 4.4 vscode#130601 @mjbvz

Python

• Adopt Testing API vscode-python#15750 @karthiknadig
• Prompt to announce deprecation of support for Python 2.7 in Jedi vscode-python#11995 @kimadeline
• 🏃 Improve python extension start-up time vscode-python#16908 @karthiknadig @karrtikr
• 🏃 Improve support for untrusted folders (including web) vscode-python#16126 @brettcannon

Debug

• 🏃 Improve extension debugging (support clean-setup, address livecycle issues) vscode#126737 vscode#124128 @weinand @isidorn
• 🏃 Finalize the disassembly view support with the C++ extension team vscode#124163 @isidorn @weinand C++ team
• Improve debug focus management vscode#128132 vscode#122775 vscode#128744 vscode#121898 vscode#113742 @isidorn
• Allow to set value of expressions in Watches view vscode#115063 @isidorn
• Add "Run To Line" to the Breakpoint Context Menu vscode#123872 @hediet
• 💪 Explore integration of a memory inspector vscode-js-debug#1008 @connor4312

DAP

• Finish the memory event debug-adapter-protocol#194 @weinand.

js-debug

• 🏃 Improve dogfooding stability of js-debug in current electron version vscode#127861 @connor4312 @weinand
• 🏃 Support inline value providers for TS/JS TypeScript#43449 @connor4312 @weinand

Testing

• 🏃 Provide support for tags vscode#129456 @connor4312
• 🏃 Support non-error output for test runs vscode#129201 @connor4312

Terminal

• Explore xtermjs node target vscode#116113 @Tyriar @meganrogge
• Support pixel perfect rendering for box drawing and block characters in xtermjs vscode#130406 @meganrogge
• 🏃 💪 Explore support for fixed-width terminals vscode#74501 @Tyriar @meganrogge

Source Control

• 🏃 Explore UI additions to help guide users to push to a remote after committing vscode#110882 @eamodio

API

• API finalization: query
• API proposals: query

Extensions

• 🏃 Support platform specific extensions vscode#23251 @sandy081
• 🏃 Update documentation to explain what it needs to run an extension in the web-worker extension host in the browser vscode#130628 @aeschli

Extension Contributions

• 🏃 Improvements to the Remote extensions vscode-remote-release#5428 @alexr00 @roblourens @chrmarti
• 🏃 Improvements to the GitHub PRI extension vscode-pull-request-github#2890 @alexr00
• 🏃 Improvements to the GitHub Repositories extension vscode-remote-repositories-github#48 @eamodio @alexr00
• Investigate performance improvements of the Bracket Pair Colorizer extension vscode#128465 @hediet

Install

• Expand the file types that VS Code is registered for on the OS and enable file associations by default vscode#127075 @digitarald @isidorn
• 🏃 Explore a meta-installer suitable for the new Windows Store vscode#130410 @sbatten

Engineering

• 💪 Adopt the new file working copy support for core editors vscode#130383 @bpasero
• 🏃 Adopt vscode namespace for npm packages vscode#130301 @connor4312 team
• Improve performance of token validation in the GitHub auth provider vscode#130795 @TylerLeonhardt
• Remove old welcome code vscode#130005 @JacksonKearl
• Assume ownership of the file explorer vscode#130422 @JacksonKearl @isidorn
• Assume ownership of the debug UI vscode#130424 @roblourens @isidorn
• 🏃 Explore impact on running search in the extension host vscode#130532 @roblourens

Builds

• Fix rpm package support for RHEL7 vscode#115784 @deepak1556
• 💪 Assume ownership of remaining translation build items vscode#128995 @TylerLeonhardt
• 💪 Explore to use playwright for our desktop smoke tests vscode#128479 @joaomoreno @bpasero

Electron

• Open devtools scoped to a target frame vscode#129437 @rzhao271 @deepak1556
• 🏃 Refactor startup code to use electron singleton instance api vscode#97626 @rzhao271 @deepak1556
• 🏃 Launch app on macOS via open from the cli vscode#102975 @rzhao271 @deepak1556

Node.js-free, sand-boxed renderer

• 🏃 Backlog vscode#92164 @bpasero @deepak1556 @rzhao271

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Deferred

• Smart run/debug command for loose TS files vscode#124280 @digitarald
• Investigate scroll performance issues in notebooks vscode#126880 @rebornix
• Exploration for moving new/recent column from Welcome to Explorer view vscode#127681 @digitarald
• 💪 Explore improving zero-knowledge onboarding into a well-tuned TS setup (tasks, tests, debugging, etc.) vscode#121345 @JacksonKearl
• Explore APIs for test coverage vscode#123713 @connor4312
• ✋ Fix vscode-encrypt loading in snap builds vscode#116690 @deepak1556
• ✋ Investigate debug crash vscode#122225 @deepak1556
• 💪 Investigate webview service worker issue on windows when workbench is run as admin vscode#122951 @deepak1556

[noahehall]

The endgame details for this iteration are tracked here.

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[Tyriar]

@noahehall the issue should be created on Monday.