Iteration Plan for April 2020

[kieferrm]

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

Endgame

• April 27th, 2020: Endgame begins
• May 1st, 2020: Endgame done

The endgame details for this iteration are tracked in #96277.

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

UX

• 🏃 Notebook UX explorations Notebook UX Explorations #95154 @misolori
• Reconsider timeline icons and follow active editor UX Timeline pin state #94092 Make pinned timeline more explicit #94091 @misolori @eamodio

Accessibility

• Improve status bar accessibility, enable F6 style UI navigation Screen reader: Access the status bar using the keyboard. #94677 @isidorn
• Investigate accessibility for debugging: Screen readers are not announcing encountered break points Screen readers not announcing encountered break points #90842 @isidorn
• Investigate/assess JAWS support Investigate into JAWS support #95225 @isidorn
• Accessibility issues, see query @isidorn

Workbench

• Migrate to dynamic view containers View Layout Customizations Part 4 #94688 @sbatten @sandy081
• Stabilize account management UI and flows Stablize account management UI and flows #95163 Improve the settings sync flows with authentication #94766 @RMacfarlane @sandy081 @misolori
• 🏃 Use encrypted keychain for account management Use encrypted keychain for account management #95475 @RMacfarlane
• Add support for GH accounts for setting sync Support GitHub logins in settings sync #95160 @Tyriar @RMacfarlane @sandy081
• 🏃 Stabilize and document Custom Editor support Custom webview editor API #77131 @mjbvz @bpasero @jrieken
• 🏃 Provide in core implementation for notebooks Notebook Backlog #91987 @rebornix @jrieken @roblourens @weinand @connor4312
• 🏃 Adopt Open With... Share "Reopen with" command and Editor Associations with notebooks, settings and keybindings UIs #94408 @rebornix team
• Allow for better support of guiding users in the presence of deprecates settings Add extension setting field for indicating it may be influenced by a deprecated/renamed setting #91618 @roblourens

Theme Support

• 🏃 Supporting to customize the product icons Allow configuration of product icons #79130 @aeschli @misolori
• Adopt and enrich the semantic coloring support for bundled VS Code color themes [themes][semantic] default themes: new constant color #95346 @aeschli
• Work with popular themes to adopt the semantic coloring support @aeschli

Terminal

• Allow extensions to customize the environment of terminal processes Allow extensions to modify terminal environment variables #46696 @Tyriar
• Link provider based terminal links preview Terminal link provider-based links preview #95081 @Tyriar
• xterm.js: Prepare client/server separation for terminals Create a node.js target for xterm.js xtermjs/xterm.js#2749 @Tyriar

Languages

• 🏃 Support richer labels in completion items Consider showing completion item detail if available for all list items #39441 @octref @jrieken

LSP / LSIF

• Adopt the latest semantic coloring API in the LSP spec @dbaeumer

TypeScript/JavaScript

• Collaborate with TS team on documentation of how to work with large TS projects Collaborate with TypeScript team on documenting large project best practices #92820 @mjbvz
• 🏃 Improve presentation of TS hovers Improve TypeScript hovers #92787 @octref @mjbvz
• Help TS team to assume ownership of semantic highlighting in TS tooling Help TS team to assume ownership of semantic highlighting in TS tooling #92789 @aeschli @mjbvz @alexdima

Debug

• Allow debug extensions to provide configurations to display in Select and Start Debugging Implement VS Code support for dynamic debug configs #95835 @isidorn @weinand
• 🏃 Improve the single file debug experience Explore improving the single file debug experience #92269 @weinand @isidorn
• Adapt "auto attach" feature in js-debug Adapt "auto attach" feature to js-debug #88599 @connor4312 @weinand
• Adopt Select and Debug for js-debug Adopt select and start debugging provider API vscode-js-debug#433 @connor4312
• Provide basic support for capturing and viewing performance profiles in js-debug Profiling support in js-debug vscode-js-debug#388 @connor4312
• Support necessary UI adaptations for profiling UI changes for profiling state in debuggers #94812 @isidorn
• Investigate how to support StepInTarget in the UI Support StepInTarget #90793 @weinand @isidorn

SCM

• Provide commands for git status Add a git extensions api to check for unsynced changes #93779 @joaomoreno
• Git: Support that extensions can contribute repository sources to clone from. @joaomoreno
• Git: Provide automatic HTTPS authentication with GitHub Git: Provide automatic HTTPS authentication with GitHub #96241 @joaomoreno

API

• April extension authors call Extension Authors Call for April 2020 #96927 @eamodio @fiveisprime
• API finalization: query
• API proposals: query

Extension Contributions

• Improvements to the Remote extensions Remote: Iteration Plan for April 2020 vscode-remote-release#2752 team
• Improvements to the GitHub PR extension GHPR: Iteration Plan for April 2020 vscode-pull-request-github#1619 @alexr00 @RMacfarlane
• Improvements to the GH Issues Notebook extension https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-github-issue-notebooks/issues @jrieken
• Provide an extension contributing a flame chart presentation for performance profiles April visualization work vscode-js-debug#434 @connor4312

Engineering

• 🏃 Explore node-free renderer processes Implement a node.js-free, sandboxed, context isolated renderer  #92164 @bpasero @deepak1556
• Adopt working copy service in Search editor Search editor: registers as working copy even if saved #89268 @JacksonKearl
• Bring back automated issue classification Issue Classification Bot #95086 @JacksonKearl
• Ongoing work on proposing and implementing new bots (query) @JacksonKearl
• Contribute to electron's continuous Chromium update @deepak1556

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Deferred Items

• Support for custom views with WebView contents Support WebViews in extension contributed custom views #83911 @mjbvz
• Support to preview refactoring changes for other refactorings than Rename Support preview a WorkspaceEdit #77728 @jrieken @mjbvz
• Global undo/redo: support to undo an operation for a file that is not in memory Support undoing textual edits in text buffers that were disposed #92272 @alexdima
• Introduce a memory limit to saved undo-redo elements. Introduce a memory limit to saved undo-redo elements. #93687 @alexdima
• Support to eventually activate an extension on startup @alexdima
• Settings sync: Explore support for extensions to participate in global state synchronization Support synchronising extension's global state #95209 @sandy081
• Adopt GH account for issues reporter Adopt GitHub Auth provider for issues reporter  #95165 @RMacfarlane
• Support url query params for custom editor resources Pass line number to custom editor when opening custom editors #94037 @mjbvz
• Investigate into an ARM product build for Windows Support ARM64 build for Windows #33620 @joaomoreno
• Explore how to make it easier for extension authors to react to deprecated API Provide linting support (eslint?) for deprecated extension APIs #94751 @eamodio

[usernamehw]

I don't understand why you are putting this item to the Iteration Plan Item list

Support for custom views with WebView contents #83911 mjbvz

If it's not planned for this iteration.

[war525]

Is it difficult to solve half a year's worth of proposals?

Word navigation in QuickOpen
#84755

[ahmednrana]

I would like to ask which iteration can specifically improve the efficiency of java coding. Many functions of Red Hat's Java language service cannot keep up with the development steps of Eclipse.
Why doesn't Microsoft develop or maintain the Java language service engine extension by itself? I look forward to Microsoft's own development of a Java language service engine extension based on Eclipse JDT, which will be more friendly, convenient, and rapid for the overall VSCode Java update iteration.
Because of the Java development extensions provided by Microsoft so far, only the core Java language service engine extension is missing. This is very regrettable.

much needed

[jedwards1211]

Could you implement a separate extension host for type commands this iteration or the next?
The Vim keyboard lag is awful at times.
#75627

Vim users feel like second class citizens in VSCode right now.

[datacubeR]

are you guys planning to fix export from jupyter to python script during this iteration?

[regs01]

Below the OPEN EDITORS section header does not have a background color and the VSCODE and OUTLINE headers have an upper border.

This isn't good way of UI. It's visually messing up sections. It's when designers taking over UI and putting style above productivity. The good way of UI is when each section on screen that is not related to each other should have visual contrast separation. That's why nobody liked Office 2013.
And this also not only about visual separation. It's also about eye attention for collapsed sections. When it's different your eye can quickly find it.

#93764 proposal received just one like, yet has been implemented.