Remote: Iteration Plan for November 2020

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This plan captures our work on the Remote development extensions in November. We follow the same iteration cycle as VS Code. Although we plan for a whole iteration, we not only ship at the end of an iteration but throughout.

We've spent the first two weeks of this iteration finishing our annual housekeeping. If you are interested in why we have issue house keeping iterations and in our general philosophy around issue management, then we have this write-up for you.

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

Housekeeping

• Issue/PR Grooming - review, categorization, assignment. We work with on tracking item across all our repositories: 2020 Issue Grooming - review, categorization, assignment vscode#108472 team

Remote Core

• Support that an extension running inside a remote context can open a URL in a locally running browser Provide a CLI option that can open a URL in a browser page  #3992 @aeschli
• Detect open/closed ports dynamically independent of the output to the console Detect open/closed ports dynamically independent of the output to the console #3996 @alexr00
• 🏃 Ports view polish Ports View Polish #4021 @alexr00
• Enable binding privileged ports Port forwarding: when the local port is privileged, offer to elevate and use the privileged port if possible #3922 @alexr00
• 💪 Support additional ports attributes (name, ignored) Support to define additional attributes for ports #4046 @alexr00

Remote-SSH

• Capture the different phases of the Remote-SSH startup for performance analysis Measure Remote-SSH startup time #4030 @roblourens
• Support parameters to opensshremotes.openEmptyWindow A way to pass arguments to the opensshremotes.openEmptyWindow command #3552 @roblourens

Remote-WSL

• 💪 🏃 Explore experience when Remote WSL extension is installed out of the box on Windows, see also Investigation: Installing a WSL extension out of the box on Windows vscode#106759 @aeschli

Remote Samples

• 💪 🏃 Switch to using dynamic port forwarding in the samples Use dynamic port forwarding for the remote samples #3933 @egamma @Chuxel