Iteration Plan for August 2024

[kieferrm]

This plan captures our work in August. This is a 5-week iteration. We will ship in early September.

Endgame

• August 26, 2024: Endgame begins
• August 30, 2024: 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 @meganrogge team

UX

• 🏃 Proposal for cleaning up our context menus vscode#225411 @daviddossett

Workbench

• 💪 🏃 Tree: Support contributable find providers vscode#212077 @benibenj
• Enable new Profiles UI in VS Code Stable vscode#215555 @sandy081

Code Editor

• 🏃 Explore GPU rendering of the code editor vscode#221145 @Tyriar @hediet
• 🏃 Investigation: Use tree-sitter for grammar colorization vscode#210475 @alexr00 @hediet
• 🏃 Adopt EditContext vscode@207700 @aiday-mar @hediet
• 💪 Add setting to control rendering of multi-line inline completions vscode#225399 @hediet
• 💪 Investigate syntax highlighting for inline completions vscode#225400 @hediet
• Release Monaco Editor @aiday-mar @hediet

Notebook Editor

• 🏃 API proposal for IW/REPL (openNotebookDocument with additional mode: repl) vscode#154983 @amunger
• Review REPL/IW Accessibility vscode#209140 @amunger
• Support for toggling comments on cells outside of the viewport vscode#22344 @Yoyokrazy
• 🏃 Explore supporting cmd+d across multiple cells vscode#141673 @Yoyokrazy
• 💪 Proposal for restructuring and cleaning up the context menu in Notebook vscode#219240 @Yoyokrazy
• Improve rendering of large code cell editor (e.g., sticky execution count) vscode#209154 @rebornix
• Explore hiding/collapsing unchanged cells in Notebook Diff Editor vscode#174152 @DonJayamanne
• Support inlinediff/wordwrap/whitespace in Notebook Diff Editor vscode#224759 @DonJayamanne
• 🏃 Explore adopting multi file diff editor for notebook diff vscode#224760 @DonJayamanne

Search

• 🏃 Prepare FileSearchProvider API for finalization vscode#73524 @andreamah
• 🏃 Prepare TextSearchProvider API for finalization vscode#59921 @andreamah

WebAssembly Support

• Support Exceptions for result return types #wasm-177 @dbaeumer

Issue Reporter

• Finish migrating desktop issue report to auxiliary service approach vscode#213332 @justschen

Languages

TypeScript

• Investigate performance issues when adding all missing imports vscode#208911 @justschen
• Investigate folding issues with imports vscode#156675 @justschen @aeschli
• 💪 Explore support adding imports via drag and drop from explorer @justschen

Python

• 🏃 Contributions to the Python extension, see plan @karthiknadig team

Language Server Protocol

• Support GlobPattern in DocumentFilter lsp#1781 @dbaeumer
• Allow a language server to provide a reference content for a specific uri scheme lsp#336 @dbaeumer

Authentication

• 🏃 Explore UX for switching accounts for extensions vscode#225943 @TylerLeonhardt

Testing

• Finalize attributable test coverage API vscode#212196 @connor4312
• Finalize Call stacks API vscode#214488 @connor4312
• Finalize Related code vscode#126932 @connor4312
• Improve UX of the new call stack widget @connor4312 @daviddossett

Debug

• Support find in the debug console vscode#4338 @meganrogge @connor4312

Debug Adapter Protocol

• 💪 Explore green thread support debug-adapter-protocol#339 @connor4312
• Add source locations for variables debug-adapter-protocol#343 @connor4312

Terminal

• Finalize shellIntegration API vscode#145234 @Tyriar
• 🏃 Iterating on pwsh suggest and PromptInputModel vscode#154662 @Tyriar
• Explore moving to newer conpty version vscode#224488 @Tyriar

Tasks

• Explore issues with duplicated terminals vscode#216826 @meganrogge

Source Control

• Add SCM accessibility help dialog vscode#203577 @lszomoru @meganrogge
• Support for blame inline decorations vscode#203841 @lszomoru
• Support new git reftable format vscode#221642 @lszomoru

API

• 🏃 API proposals: query @jrieken @mjbvz
• 🏃 API finalization: query @jrieken @mjbvz
• Finalize the GetAccounts API vscode#152399 @TylerLeonhardt

Extensions

• 💪 Make repository signature verification blocking vscode#223942 @sandy081 @isidorn
• 💪 Investigate different extension update mechanisms vscode#215555 @sandy081 @isidorn

Extension Contributions

• 🏃 Improvements to the Remote extensions, see plan @roblourens @chrmarti @connor4312 @joyceerhl
• 🏃 Create suggestions from working tree changes vscode-pull-request-github#5256 @alexr00

Engineering

• 🏃 Explore AMD to ESM migration vscode#160416 @jrieken @bpasero
• Investigate moving from yarn back to npm vscode#196795 @deepak1556

Electron

• ✋ V8: Support usage of external array buffers for embedders in sandbox mode chromium#14585 @deepak1556
• 🏃 Crash when searching in extension preview editor vscode#177046 @rzhao271

Documentation

• 💪 🏃 Update Getting Started experience doc vsocde-docs#7359 @ntrogh

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Deferred

• None.

[faheemstepsharp]

Is there any plan for a Windows 11-inspired UI/UX in VS Code, featuring modern design elements like rounded corners, sleek animations, and subtle shadows? Adding native hover information with rich content previews (e.g., images and links), as well as improved preview features for Markdown and files, would enhance the overall experience. However, these updates should be optimized to avoid impacting performance, especially for developers working on resource-heavy tasks. Additionally, better extension management and a built-in system resource monitor could help maintain a responsive and efficient environment.

[faheemstepsharp]

August release DATE?