Iteration Plan for June 2021

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

Endgame

• June 28, 2021: Endgame
• July 2, 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
• 🏃 Assess notebook accessibility vscode#111255 @rebornix @isidorn @roblourens

Workbench

• 🔴 Trusted Folders/Workspaces @lszomoru @sbatten
  • 🏃 Investigate what it means to support the notion of trust for virtual workspaces vscode#126913 @sbatten @lszomoru
  • 🏃 Engagement with extension authors on adoption trusted folders vscode#120251 @lszomoru @sbatten
• 🏃 Improve the welcome pages vscode#106715 @JacksonKearl @misolori @digitarald
  • Reclaim "Welcome" page for the current "Getting Started" page vscode#126419 @JacksonKearl
  • Polish the graphics presented in the out-of-the-box walkthroughs vscode#125877 @daviddossett @digitarald
  • Polish how the user can manage the tiles on the welcome page vscode#126420 @JacksonKearl @misolori
  • Improve presentation of new tiles and presentation of a larger number of tiles vscode#127196 @JacksonKearl @misolori
  • 🏃 Continue user testing on new welcome pages vscode#125117 @digitarald
  • 🏃 Explore Extension content contributions vscode#118402 @digitarald
  • 💪 Enable a walkthrough based on the files in the workspace vscode#121778 @JacksonKearl
• 💪 Explore consolidated presentation of release notes and change logs, see also vscode#123906 @JacksonKearl @misolori @digitarald
• Explore universal, extensible "New..." to make it easier to create new files or notebooks, see also vscode#124304 @JacksonKearl @misolori
• Add support for detail messages in notifications/dialogs vscode#125750 @jrieken
• Add support for rich hovers in statusbar items vscode#126258 @aeschli
• 🏃 Add support for drag&drop in custom trees vscode#32592 @alexr00
• 🏃 Allow opening all new editors in a dedicated editor group vscode#124709 @bpasero @misolori
• Improvements to the setting editor vscode#77458 vscode#125958 vscode#79571 vscode#126089 @rzhao271
• Disable dependent extension if one of its dependency is disabled vscode#122448 @sandy081
• 💪 Add support for rich hovers in the Extensions view vscode#126479 @sandy081
• 💪 Improve rendering of Extensions Viewlet when the width is narrow vscode#118511 @sandy081
• Settings sync: Provide easier access to the logs vscode#125687 @sandy081

Web

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

UX

• 🔴 🏃 Explore how to cycle through inline completion proposals @misolori @hediet
• 💪 Continue exploration of profiles vscode#116740 @misolori
• 🔴 💪 Explore improvements to the end-to-end experience of opening your first Jupyter notebook @misolori team

Code Editor

• Improve inline completion support query @hediet
• Improve editor decoration support (move away from using CSS ::after) root cause of vscode#125123 and other issues @hediet @alexdima
• Publish a new Monaco editor release @hediet

Notebooks

Notebook Editor

• 🔴 🏃 Improve discoverability of notebook layout and behavior customizability @misolori @rebornix @roblourens
• 🏃 Improve rendering jitter in notebooks vscode#126432 @roblourens @mjbvz
• 🏃 Fully support markup rendering in notebooks vscode#126417 @mjbvz
• 🏃 Reduce notebook papercut issues vscode#113245 @rebornix @jrieken @roblourens
• 💪 Collect needs/requirements for marketplace to support notebook content provider and renderers suggestions vscode#123581 @rebornix
• 💪 Overview ruler vscode#96442 @rebornix
• 🏃 Update Notebook API Docs vscode-docs#4604 @tanhakabir

Jupyter Notebooks

• 🏃 Replace the webview-based interactive window with a built-in one vscode#126415 @rebornix @joyceerhl
• 🏃 Explore debugging in Jupyter notebooks (line-by-line versus full debugging support) vscode#126431 @roblourens @weinand @DavidKutu

Authentication

• Improve GitHub auth provider query @TylerLeonhardt

Install

• winget: support updates of the VS Code Insider release vscode#126980 @lszomoru

Languages

• Finalize support for richer completion item detail rendering vscode#39441 @jrieken

LSP /LSIF

• LSP - Collaborate on "TypeHierarchy" support with the Java extension team @dbaeumer Java team Support Type Hierarchy language-server-protocol#1231
• LSP - Add support for a pull model for diagnostics language-server-protocol#737 @dbaeumer

JavaScript/TypeScript

• 🏃 Explore improving zero-knowledge onboarding into a well-tuned TS setup (tasks, tests, debugging, etc.) vscode#121345 @JacksonKearl @connor4312 @mjbvz @misolori

Python

• 🔴 Explore support for untrusted folders @brettcannon
• 🏃 Explore improvements to the debugging experience vscode#126463 @weinand @isidorn @luabud

Debug

• Improve editor run action by using the new split button vscode#117722 @weinand @isidorn
• Investigate support for setting a value in the Watch view vscode#115063 @weinand @isidorn
• 💪 🏃 Investigate in UI for debugging highly concurrent languages vscode#116109 @weinand
• 💪 Explore integration of a memory inspector : vscode-js-debug#1008 @connor4312

DAP

• Support for a new WriteMemoryRequest if debuggee permits to debug-adapter-protocol#163 @weinand
• 🏃 Add new Memory Event to refresh an address range debug-adapter-protocol#194 @weinand

Testing

• 🏃 Provide consolidated testing support vscode#107467 @connor4312 @sandy081
• 🏃 Finalize testing APIs vscode#122208 vscode#117379 @connor4312 @jrieken @mjbvz
• 🏃 Explore APIs for test coverage vscode#123713 @connor4312

Terminal

• Support Terminals in editor tabs vscode#10546, vscode#125514 @Tyriar @meganrogge @bpasero

Source Control

• None.

API

• API finalization: query
• API proposals: query
• Collaborate with extension authors to adopt the new statusbar id and name properties API @bpasero

Extension Contributions

• Improvements to the Remote extensions vscode-remote-release#5183 @alexr00 @roblourens @chrmarti
• Improvements to the GitHub PR extension vscode-pull-request-github#2775 @alexr00
• Remote Repositories extension vscode-remote-repositories-github#12 @eamodio @JacksonKearl @alexr00

Engineering

• Support searching in iframe vscode#96307 @rzhao271
• Switch to using untyped editor inputs externally for better lifecycle management vscode#124351 @lramos15
• Add untitled resource support to override service vscode#124352 @lramos15

Builds

• Finish language packs builds vscode-loc-drop#51 vscode-loc#286 @TylerLeonhardt

Electron

• None.

Node.js-free, sand-boxed renderer

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

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Deferred

• Add more examples to samples repo for Notebooks/renderers vscode-extension-samples#436 @tanhakabir
• Stabilize APIs for notebook change events vscode#125758 @jrieken
• Finalize renderer API vscode#123601 @connor4312
• Explore UI additions to help guide users to push to a remote after committing vscode#110882 @eamodio
• Search editor: leverage text file model support and behave like normal text editors vscode#118947 @JacksonKearl

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