Iteration Plan for July 2021

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

Endgame

• July 26, 2021: Endgame
• July 30, 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
• Address web-site accessibility issues, see query @rzhao271

Workbench

• 🏃 Engagement with extension authors on adoption trusted folders vscode#120251 @lszomoru @sbatten
• Polish getting started (wording, padding, clickable images) vscode#128574 @JacksonKearl @digitarald @misolori
• 🏃 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
• Polish settings editor vscode#79571 vscode#127424 @rzhao271
• Disable Open Changes icon for files without changes vscode#26425 @lramos15
• Investigate automatic language detection in untitled files vscode#129004 @TylerLeonhardt
• Option to specify separator for "Copy Relative Path" action vscode#56279 @bpasero
• Support a new status item background color to indicate "warning" state vscode#128205 @misolori @aeschli

Extensions

• Support installing and activating extensions from an extension pack together vscode#128114 @sandy081
• Add support for rich hovers in the Extensions view vscode#126479 @sandy081
• Improve rendering of extensions under extension pack tab vscode#120702 @sandy081
• Improve rendering of Extensions view when the width is narrow vscode#118511 @sandy081

Web

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

UX

• 🏃 Explore improvements to the end-to-end experience of opening your first Jupyter notebook vscode#128592 @misolori team

Code Editor

• 🔴 Publish a new Monaco editor release @hediet
• 🔴 Complete support for injected text (click handling) @hediet
• Adopt injected text support for ghosted text vscode#129411 @hediet
• Use and validate injected text support for inlay type hints vscode#129412 @hediet

Notebooks

Notebook Editor

• 🏃 Improve discoverability of notebook layout and behavior customizability vscode#128549 @misolori @rebornix @roblourens
• Explore improvements of the toolbar behavior in narrow notebook editors vscode#125551 @misolori @rebornix @roblourens
• Improve handling of long text outputs vscode#128765 @rebornix
• 🏃Improve visual presentation of folded inputs/outputs vscode#119776 @rebornix @roblourens
• Progress on notebook renderer API vscode#123601 @connor4312
• 🏃 Improve rendering jitter in notebooks vscode#126432 @roblourens @mjbvz
• 🏃 Investigate scroll performance issues in notebooks vscode#126880 @rebornix

Jupyter Notebooks

• Replace the webview-based interactive window with a built-in one vscode#126415 @rebornix @joyceerhl
• Improve multi-line input box behavior in the built-in interactive window vscode#128766 @rebornix @joyceerhl
• 🏃 Explore debugging in Jupyter notebooks (line-by-line versus full debugging support) vscode#126431 @DavidKutu @roblourens @weinand
• Provide .ipynb file support out of the box vscode#128495 @roblourens @joyceerhl
• Contributions to the vscode-jupyter extension vscode-jupyter#6628 team

Samples

• Add more examples to samples repo for Notebooks/renderers vscode-extension-samples#436 @tanhakabir

Languages

• Explore a 'universal' token based language service vscode#82024 @jrieken
• 🏃 Collaborate on Type Hierarchy API with the Java extension team Java team @jrieken @dbaeumer

LSP /LSIF

• LSP: Expose support for more structured completion items @dbaeumer
• LSIF:Support TS 4.4 in the TypeScript LSIF indexer @dbaeumer

JavaScript/TypeScript

• Enable and polish inlay hints for TypeScript 4.4 vscode#16221 @mjbvz
• Support reporting of syntax errors in the TS syntax server vscode#127700 @mjbvz
• 🔴 Explore variations of "New TS Project" to inform what APIs are needed @JacksonKearl

Python

• Finalize Getting Started contribution vscode-python#16678 @brettcannon @luabud @kimadeline
• 🏃 Adopt Testing API vscode-python#15750 @karthiknadig
• 💪 Deprecate support for Python 2.7 in Jedi vscode-python#11995 @kimadeline

Debug

• Improve editor run action by using the new split button vscode#117722 @weinand
• Explore support for a disassembly view with the C++ extension team vscode#124163 C++ team @weinand @isidorn
• Add "Run To Line" command to the Breakpoint Context Menu vscode#123872 @hediet
• 💪 Explore integration of a memory inspector: vscode-js-debug#1008 @connor4312

DAP

• Add new Memory Event to refresh an address range 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 consolidated testing support vscode#107467 @connor4312
• Finalize testing APIs vscode#122208 vscode#117379 @connor4312 @jrieken @mjbvz
• Testing User Guide and API documentation vscode-docs#4640 @connor4312 @gregvanl

Terminal

• Mark terminal editors as dirty when they have subprocesses, explore option for panel terminals vscode#127193 @Tyriar
• Only trigger confirmOnExit when terminals have subprocesses vscode#23808 @Tyriar
• Support drag and drop of terminals across windows vscode#126387 @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

Extension Contributions

• Improvements to the Remote extensions vscode-remote-release#5315 @alexr00 @roblourens @chrmarti
• Improvements to the GitHub PRI vscode-pull-request-github#2833 extension @alexr00
• Improvements to the Remote Repositories extension vscode-remote-repositories-github#39 @eamodio @alexr00
• Stabilization of the Live Preview extension vscode-livepreview#71 @andreamah
• Investigate performance improvements of the Bracket Pair Colorizer extension vscode#128465 @hediet

Engineering

• Support cut, copy, paste for iframe search vscode#127456 @rzhao271 @mjbvz
• 🔴 Investigate improving the release process of the Monaco editor by migrating to a mono repo @hediet

Builds

• ✋ Fix vscode-encrypt loading in snap builds vscode#116690 @deepak1556
• 🏃 Fix rpm package support for RHEL7 vscode#115784 @deepak1556
• 💪 Assume ownership of remaining translation build items vscode#128995 @TylerLeonhardt
• Adopt latest playwright version to benefit from the new trace support vscode#128479 @bpasero @joaomoreno
• Automate data migration smoketests vscode#127799 @bpasero @joaomoreno
• Run smoke tests (including on Windows) as part of the CI builds vscode#128224 @joaomoreno
• Enable certificate rotation for the code signing service @joaomoreno

Electron

• Electron 13 update vscode#124666 @deepak1556
• 💪 Investigate debug crash vscode#122225 @deepak1556
• 💪 Investigate webview service worker issue on windows when workbench is run as admin vscode#122951 @deepak1556
• Investigate fix to prevent eager preload script loading that breaks IPC vscode#127421 @deepak1556

Node.js-free, sand-boxed renderer

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

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Deferred

• Exploration for moving new/recent column from Welcome to Explorer view vscode#127681 @digitarald
• Allow opening all new editors in a dedicated editor group vscode#124709 @bpasero @misolori
• 💪 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