Iteration Plan for February 2023

[kieferrm]

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

Endgame

• February 20, 2023: Endgame begins
• February 24, 2023: 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 @isidorn team

UX

• 🏃 Refine updated built-in themes vscode#164924 @daviddossett
• Explore UI density modes vscode#115641 @daviddossett
• 🏃 Introduce an experimental modal welcome for web experiences vscode#171190 @bhavyaus @joyceerhl @daviddossett
• 🏃 Explore improvements to the extensions list vscode#151599 @esonnino @sandy081

Workbench

• 🏃 Explore built-in Profiles vscode#166359 @isidorn @sandy081
• Support profiles in remote workspaces vscode#165247 @sandy081
• 🏃 Explore surfacing the remote experiences on the welcome page vscode#173396 @bhavyaus
• Explore UI for new file snippets vscode#173729 @ulugbekna @jrieken
• Support making the explorer moveable to other parts vscode#173388 @lramos15
• Support an RTL layout of the titlebar based on WCO vscode#164397 @sbatten
• 🏃 Support parenthesis in context keys vscode#91473 @ulugbekna @jrieken
• 🏃 Triage & address sticky scroll issues vscode#174259 @aiday-mar @aeschli
• Allow showOpenDialog to open local files on web vscode#131138 @alexr00
• Support changing the default log level for core & extensions vscode#173120 @sandy081
• Persist badge visibility across reloads and view movement vscode#168939 @lramos15
• Add support for links in quick pick input validation messages vscode#82112 @TylerLeonhardt
• Add support for hover messages on quick pick items vscode#174473 @TylerLeonhardt

WebAssembly Runtime Support

• Continue to increase test coverage for the VS Code WASI implementation vscode-wasm#4 @dbaeumer
• 💪 Explore provide a web-shell shell-engine-js#1 @dbaeumer @Tyriar

Code Editor

• Monaco editor housekeeping monaco-editor inbox query @hediet
• Publish new Monaco Editor version CHANGELOG.md @hediet
• iPad: Trackpad scroll doens't work in vscode.dev vscode#164220 @hediet
• Move background tokenization to a web worker vscode#147066 @hediet
• Support union brackets (build the tree out of both colorized brackets and matched brackets) vscode#170497 @hediet
• Publish new Monaco Editor website with improved playground monaco-editor#3483 @hediet

Notebook Editor

• Explore UX to surface common notebook renderer performance issues vscode#170309 @sbatten @rebornix
• 🏃 Polish and enable scrollable notebook outputs vscode-jupyter#4406 @amunger
• Wrong horizontal scrollbar calculation on initial load vscode#167806 @rebornix @alexdima
• 🏃 Explore how to stop hanging network request from preventing the opening of notebooks vscode#166860 @mjbvz
• 🏃 Introduce global search options for open notebooks vscode#164926 @andreamah
• 🏃 Explore smart global search for notebooks in the workspace vscode#173726 @andreamah
• 💪 Align closing behavior of the Interactive Window with Untitled Files vscode#172974 @amunger

Jupyter Notebooks

• Contributions to the vscode-jupyter extension vscode-jupyter#12734 team

Languages

Python

• Contributions to the python extension vscode-python#20648 @brettcannon team

Python WebAssembly Runtime Support

• 🏃 Explore support for statically linking and loading native modules @dbaeumer @brettcannon
• 🏃 ⬛ How do users find packages that work in CPython WASI? issue; @brettcannon
• Explore support for notebooks @dbaeumer

JavaScript/TypeScript

• 🏃 Automatic type acquisition on the web vscode#172887 @mjbvz
• 🏃 Project-wide IntelliSense on the web vscode#170920 @mjbvz
• Explore LSIF support for TS v5 @dbaeumer Branch dbaeumer/ts5.0

JSON

• Sort JSON properties alphabetically vscode#155312 @aiday-mar @aeschli

Localization

• Display language change not taking effect for extensions running in remote extension host vscode#166836 @TylerLeonhardt

Debug

Debug Adapter Protocol

• None.

Testing

• None.

Terminal

• 🏃 Support external terminals as a default for WSL sessions vscode#167865 @Tyriar
• 🏃 Continue pwsh autocomplete vscode#154662 @Tyriar

Tasks

• None.

Source Control

• None.

API

• API finalization: query @jrieken @mjbvz
• API proposals: query @jrieken @mjbvz
• Support QuickDiffProvider without SourceControl registration vscode#169012 @alexr00
• Expose folding regions through executeFoldingRangeProvider vscode#36638 @aeschli
• Support comma-separated globs in findTextInFiles API vscode#169422 @andreamah
• ✋ Finalize or remove the notebookControllerKind API Proposal vscode#168535 @mjbvz @rebornix

Extensions

• None.

Extension Contributions

• Improvements to the Remote extensions vscode-remote-release#7972 @eleanorjboyd @chrmarti @aeschli @joyceerhl
• Support permalink rendering vscode-pull-request-github#4229 @alexr00
• Ability to re-request a review from the PR description page vscode-pull-request-github#4092 @alexr00
• 🏃 Exploration: Re-think PR creation flow vscode-pull-request-github#4403 @alexr00 @daviddossett
• Adopt new log level API vscode-pull-request-github#4490 @alexr00

Performance

• 🏃 Defer onStartupFinished activation vscode#164593 @joyceerhl
• VSCode Perf Tool - Tool to measure performance of VSCode vscode-perf#1 @bpasero @sandy081
• ⬛ ✋ PGO for VSCode Desktop vscode#170931 @deepak1556
• 🔴 💪 Investigate slow stacks reported to telemetry, ramp up the experiment @jrieken
• 🏃 Log sizes of extension host telemetry messages vscode#170955 @jrieken

Install

• 🏃 Update snap package to use base: vscode#119436 @deepak1556
• 💪 Linux: Ship RPM packages for EL8/EL9 alongside EL7 vscode#144969 @deepak1556

Engineering

• Adopt generating implicit activation events vscode#172869 @bhavyaus @meganrogge @Tyriar @rebornix @team
• 🏃 Explore migrating from AMD to ESM vscode#160416 @jrieken @alexdima
• 🏃 ⬛ Sandboxing: Adopt utility process for shared process, file watchers and terminal host vscode#154050 @bpasero @deepak1556 @Tyriar
• 🔴 🏃 Sandboxing: Investigate increased extension host crash rate in stable @bpasero @deepak1556 @digitarald

Electron

• 🏃 Update to Electron 22 vscode#166265 @deepak1556 @bpasero @rzhao271
• Orca can't be stopped in native dialogs vscode#121811 @deepak1556
• Right Click acting abnormal vscode#113175 @deepak1556

Documentation

• 🏃 Profiles topic/section vscode-docs#6020 @gregvanl @sandy081
• 🏃 Add an Git introductory page vscode-docs#5677 @digitarald

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Deferred

• Revisit TOC selection behavior in the settings editor when searching vscode#170462 @rzhao271
• Fix scroll jumping issue in settings editor vscode#170462 @rzhao271
• Defer eager activation events till initial events have settled vscode#171135 @joyceerhl
• Update source control documentation to include the merge editor vscode-docs#5618 @gregvanl @hediet
• Explore notebook specific list view and layout improvements vscode#170881 @rebornix @roblourens
• Clarify requirement for unique variable names debug-adapter-protocol#141 @roblourens
• Add ‘singleThread’ argument to pause requests debug-adapter-protocol#355 @roblourens
• Continue request shouldn’t fall back on continuing all threads debug-adapter-protocol#221 @roblourens
• 🏃 Explore a built-in variables viewer vscode#165445 @roblourens
• 🏃 Surface Continue-On in more places vscode#165406 @joyceerhl
• 🏃 Memory reuse debug-adapter-protocol#238 @connor4312 @roblourens
• Related code vscode#126932 @connor4312
• Improving the developer experience for the CLI within the vscode repo vscode#171515 @aeschli @connor4312
• Improvements to Getting Started experience query @bhavyaus
• 💪 Stabilize DocumentPasteEditProvider API to support pasting images vscode#30066 @mjbvz
• Git: Support untracked folders vscode#169253 @lszomoru
• ✋ 🏃 Fix preview of forwarded ports in Codespaces for Simple Browser and Live Preview vscode-livepreview#111 @andreamah @mjbvz
• 🏃 Explore localization support for notebook renderers vscode#170919 @TylerLeonhardt @mjbvz
• 🏃 Update Azure Content, ToC vscode-docs#5614 @gregvanl @isidorn
• Investigate large screen update under remote desktop vscode#164503 @deepak1556

[BartolomeSintes]

Can this issue be pinned?

[Ssiswent]

Explore UI density modes
This has been finished?

[Tyriar]

@Ssiswent the linked issue always has the most up to date information. Explore doesn't necessarily mean any changes will be made, just that it's been explored/scoped out.