Iteration Plan for September 2021

[egamma]

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

Endgame

• September 27, 2021: Endgame
• October 1, 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 vscode#110408 @rebornix

Workbench

• Allow extensions to register groups of settings for the settings editor vscode#126089 @rzhao271
• Ensure UI stability when updating QuickPick.items vscode#109969 @TylerLeonhardt
• Provide individual user settings for error and usage telemetry vscode#132552 @lramos15 @sbatten
• Explore second sidebar vscode#132893 @sbatten
• Continue user testing on new welcome pages vscode#125117 @digitarald
• 🏃 Explore extension content contributions to the welcome page vscode#118402 @digitarald
• Improve markdown preview scrolling behavior vscode#119370 @mjbvz
• Make Help menu entries more useful for exploration vscode#132158 @digitarald
• Exploration for moving new/recent column from Welcome Editor to Explorer view vscode#127681 @digitarald
• 🏃 Problems view - add support to sort by message contents vscode#98819 @lszomoru
• Continue locked editor groups exploration vscode#124709 @bpasero
• Allow to split an editor into two editors in a single group vscode#36700 @bpasero
• Address confusion when a user wants to open a folder but runs 'Open Workspace...' vscode#131793 @bpasero

Web

• Improve drag&drop behavior vscode#133116 @sbatten @bpasero @isidorn

UX

• 🏃 💪 Explore how to effectively signal limited language support to users, e.g. in untrusted folders @daviddossett @misolori vscode#133049
• Explore how to indicate read-only and deleted files open in editors more effectively vscode#130526 @misolori @bpasero
• Explore aligning in-editor peek views (test, problems, references, etc.) UX vscode#130516 @misolori @connor4312 @jrieken @sandy081
• 💪 Continue exploration of profiles vscode#116740 @lydiayschung @sana-ajani @misolori
• 🏃 💪 Explore improving the "Show Running Extensions" view @lydiayschung @misolori vscode#133136

Code Editor

• Improve auto complete and ghosted text interaction vscode#131940 @hediet
• Native bracket pair colorizer add support for rendering 'scope' lines vscode#131001 @hediet
• 🏃 Adopt bracket AST infrastructure for all bracket related features vscode#132536 @hediet
• Improve undo for the auto tag close by leveraging the new editor events vscode#34484 @aeschli
• Publish a new Monaco editor release changelog of 0.28.0 @hediet

Notebooks

• Explore improvements to the end-to-end experience of opening your first Jupyter (Python) notebook vscode#128592 @misolori team
• Support notebook content provider, renderers, and controller extensions in the marketplace vscode#123581 @connor4312 @rebornix
• 🏃 Improve discoverability of available/installable output renderers for given mime types vscode#131031 @misolori @rebornix
• 🏃 💪 Explore ways to show execution progress while the executing cell is out of the viewport vscode#130611 @misolori @roblourens
• Investigate an extension contribution point for a notebook type debugger vscode#132014 @roblourens @weinand

Notebook Editor

• 🏃 Investigate scroll performance issues in notebooks vscode#126880 @rebornix
• 🏃 Improve rendering jitter in notebooks vscode#126432 @roblourens
• 🏃 Improve discoverability of cell folding @misolori @roblourens vscode#132690
• Improve usability of in-between cell toolbar vscode#133205 @roblourens
• 🏃 Explore option for allowing to run all cells in a folded markdown region vscode#133690 @misolori

Jupyter Notebooks

• Explore debugging in Jupyter notebooks (line-by-line versus full debugging support) vscode#126431 @roblourens @DavidKutu @weinand
• Contributions to the vscode-jupyter extension vscode-jupyter#7428 @greazer team

Notebook Engineering

• 🏃 Improve code structure and dependecies vscode#131808 @roblourens @rebornix
• Improve overall quality (rendering failures, z-index issues, ...) query @roblourens @rebornix

Languages

• 🏃 Add support for a language status indicator vscode#129037 @mjbvz @jrieken @daviddossett.
• Adopt the language status indicator:
  • TypeScript @mjbvz
  • 🏃 ESLint @dbaeumer
  • Java Java team
  • C# @jrieken
• Finish Type Hierarchy API with the Java extension team Java team @jrieken
• 🏃 Finish Type Inlay UI/API @jrieken @hediet

LSP /LSIF

• Add "TypeHierarchy" support with the Java extension team @dbaeumer Java team
• Support TS 4.4 final in the TypeScript LSIF indexer lsif-node#131 @dbaeumer

Python

• Contributions to the python extension vscode-python#17468 @brettcannon team

Debug

• 🏃 Continue investigation: extension debugging in a clean environment vscode#126737 @weinand
• 🏃 Investigation: Exclude breakpoint from specific caller vscode#127775 @weinand @roblourens
• 🏃 Finalize the disassembly view support with the C++ extension team vscode#124163 @roblourens @weinand C++ team
• 🏃 Explore integration of a memory inspector vscode-js-debug#1008 @connor4312
• 🏃 Help top language extensions to support single file debugging experiences vscode#132329 @isidorn

js-debug

• 🏃 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
• 💪 Explore APIs for test coverage vscode#123713 @connor4312

Terminal

• Explore support for fixed-width terminals vscode#74501 @Tyriar @meganrogge
• Include cwd in terminal title vscode#29816 @meganrogge
• 🏃 💪 Explore ways to make rendering edge cases more reliable vscode#131580 @Tyriar
• Save terminal buffer/cwd/icon/etc. on restart vscode#131634 @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
• 🏃 Explore API access to open editors including focused notebooks or custom editors vscode#15178 @lramos15

Extensions

• Support platform specific extensions vscode#23251 @sandy081 @joaomoreno @isidorn
• Explore support for an 'insider version' for an extension vscode#15756 vscode#111521 @sandy081 @isidorn
• Explore simplifying enabling/disabling a group of extensions for a workspace vscode#40239 @lszomoru
• Explore how extensions could extend Report Issue to collect extension specific data vscode#46726 @TylerLeonhardt

Extension Contributions

• Improvements to the Remote extensions @alexr00 @roblourens @chrmarti @aeschli vscode-remote-release#5552
• Improvements to the GitHub PRI extension query @alexr00
• Improvements to the GitHub Repositories extension vscode-remote-repositories-github#54 @eamodio @alexr00
• 🏃 Stabilize/maintain the Live Preview extension query @lszomoru
• 🏃 Work with popular extension on adopting and improving their welcome pages (e.g. docker) vscode#118402 @digitarald

Install

• ✋ Explore adding Insiders the new Windows Store vscode#130410 @sbatten

Engineering

• 🏃 Investigate consolidating the FileWatcher implementations by building on the multi-root file watcher vscode#132483 @bpasero
• Explore how to support a more scoped access to proposed API vscode#131165 @jrieken @mjbvz
• 🏃 Adopt vscode namespace for npm packages vscode#130301 @connor4312 team
• Improve reliability of the webview tests vscode#132596 @mjbvz

Builds

• 💪 Explore to use playwright for our desktop smoke tests vscode#128479 @bpasero @joaomoreno

Electron

• 🏃 Refactor startup code to use electron's requestSingleInstanceLock API vscode#97626 @rzhao271
• Implement macOS CLI using open vscode#102975 @rzhao271
• Windows occlusion tracker has incorrect behavior with vscode debugger vscode#123257 @deepak1556
• 🏃 Investigate the impact of windows sandbox for vscode installs vscode#122951 @deepak1556
• Fix v8 crash when debugging unit tests vscode#122225 @deepak1556
• Explore feasability of webworker support in electron webviews vscode#87282 @deepak1556

Node.js-free, sand-boxed renderer

• 🏃 Remove node.js dependency from tunnel service vscode#122723 @alexdima
• 🏃 Move search app out of renderer into shared process or extension host vscode#118200 @roblourens
• Explore launching the extension host from the shared process vscode#123592 @alexdima
• 🏃 Investigate moving the file service out of the renderer vscode#132282 @bpasero

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Deferred

• Add data points in runtime code to understand a rare service worker registration failure on linux vscode#125993 @deepak1556
• TypeScript single file debugging vscode#124280 @isidorn @gcrev93
• 🔴 Improve feedback on kernel startup @misolori @greazer @roblourens
• Adopt new injected text infrastructure for other features that inject text vscode#132537, e.g., inline values @hediet
• Improve iPad support (keyboard/trackpad/mouse and touch) query @isidorn team
• ✋ Explore showing the verified publisher badge from the marketplace vscode#127825 @isidorn @misolori @sandy081
• 💪 Explore improving zero-knowledge onboarding into a well-tuned TS setup (tasks, tests, debugging, etc.) vscode#121345 @JacksonKearl
• ✋ Fix vscode-encrypt loading in snap builds vscode#116690 @deepak1556
• Use sounds to notify screenreader users when inline suggestions or decorations are present, e.g. a breakpoint is on a current line vscode#130565 see also @hediet @isidorn

[1shaked]

what about support for native Ipados, not on the web

[Kenya-West]

Explore adding Insiders the new Windows Store

Quick fix, Microsoft Store

[fisforfaheem]

Wish to see Dart/flutter improvements as well. Also much better and Visual windows 11 like settings/preferences UI.

[Diegorro98]

What about integrate vscode into the new contextual menu in Windows 11?
And an option to add vscode to the contextual menu once installed? (users who downloaded vscode through Microsoft Store can't get the contextual menu options in an easy way)

[fisforfaheem]

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