Iteration Plan for September 2022

[kieferrm]

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

Endgame

• September 26, 2022: Endgame begins
• September 30, 2022: 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
• 🏃 Workbench: Improve accessibility of Setting indicators vscode#159088 @rzhao271

Workbench

• Setting Profiles
  • 🏃 Improvements to the settings profile experience vscode#155067 @sandy081 @daviddossett @isidorn
  • 🏃 Support Syncing Settings Profiles vscode#154243 @Tyriar @sandy081 @lszomoru
• Support hiding/showing toolbar items using right-click vscode#150916 @jrieken
• Provide Continue On... support in core vscode#160047 @joyceerhl
• Define default snippets for languages (empty file getting started) vscode#145929 @digitarald
• Add configurations for search view decorations vscode#157462 @andreamah
• Explore showing search results as a tree view vscode#20224 @andreamah @roblourens
• 🏃 Align trust and policy UX in settings editor with other indicators vscode#157564 @rzhao271 @sandy081
• Unify toggle UX in input fields throughout the workbench vscode#156179 @Tyriar
• Allow disabling incremental naming on paste for the explorer vscode#84857 @lramos15
• Explore syncing open recent and recent on getting started vscode#60821 @lramos15
• Share and Copy As consolidation vscode#157722 @alexr00

Web

• 🏃 Continue translations in the web vscode#82595 @TylerLeonhardt

WebAssembly Runtime Support

• Productize @vscode/sync-* npm packages vscode-wasm#3 @dbaeumer
• Implement cancellation strategy for sync npm packages vscode#148967 @dbaeumer

Code Editor

• Support sticky scroll for languages without outline support vscode#157165 @aiday-mar @jrieken
• 🏃 Explore using TreeSitter for generating TM scopes for TypeScript vscode#161256 @aiday-mar @jrieken @aeschli
• 💪 Modernize the Monaco editor playground monaco-editor#3247 @hediet
• Support snippets in workspace edits vscode#145374 @jrieken

Merge Editor

• 🏃 Explore switching the merge editor to the new diff algorithm vscode#160801 @hediet
• Add possibility to see and diff against base vscode#155277 @hediet
• 💪 Reduce conflict in case both sides have common lines in their diffs vscode#157496 @hediet
• Explore a toggle to hide non conflicting areas (streamline merge editor for git conflict resolution) @hediet
• 3-way merge editor customer development vscode#159561 @isidorn @stevencl

Notebook Editor

• 🏃 Help users diagnose notebook rendering perf issues vscode#154873 @mjbvz
• Support HTML headers in the notebook outline vscode#134853 @rebornix
• Show changes in the overview ruler of the notebook diff editor vscode#146224 @rebornix
• 💪 Explore improving files search results for notebooks vscode#95275 @andreamah

Jupyter Notebooks

• Unify Stop/Interrupt button across core and Jupyter vscode#128245 vscode-jupyter#7661 @rebornix
• Contributions to the vscode-jupyter extension vscode-jupyter#11286 team

Custom Views

• Allow tree items to have optional checkboxes vscode#116141 @benibenj

Languages

Python

• Contributions to the python extension vscode-python#19779 @brettcannon team

Python WebAssembly Runtime Support

• Improve performance of python environments hosted on GitHub vscode-wasm#5@dbaeumer @joyceerhl
• Investigate installing python packages with native code into a Python environment hosted on GitHub @dbaeumer @aeschli
• Make GitHub hosted python environments available in vscode.dev vscode-wasm#6 @dbaeumer @aeschli

JavaScript/TypeScript

• 🏃 Explore automatic type acquisition on web typescript#45314 @mjbvz
• ✋ Support TS project-wide intellisense on web typescript#47600 @mjbvz

Markdown

• 💪 Stabilize DocumentPasteEditProvider API to support pasting images vscode#30066 @mjbvz

JSON

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

CSS

• Add support for new CSS syntax (@layer, @Property) vscode#147354 vscode#157267 @aeschli

Debug

• Extension debugging in a clean environment vscode#126737 @weinand

DAP

• Starting new debug session from within a debug adapter debug-adapter-protocol#79 @weinand @roblourens @connor4312

Terminal

• Support hyperlink ansi escapes in the integrated terminal vscode#39278 @Tyriar
• Support custom terminal markers vscode#157026 @meganrogge @Tyriar
• Investigate flaky terminal/tasks smoke tests vscode#159510 @meganrogge
• 💪 Investigate contextual commands vscode#151937 @meganrogge

Source Control

• Support git with private key password vscode#13680 @lszomoru
• Git: Support nested git repositories vscode#37947 @lszomoru
• 🏃 Git - add action to pull branch before switching vscode#159165 @lszomoru

Extensions

• Explore using SharedArrayBuffer in the web worker extension host on desktop vscode#116715 @jrieken
• Sort extensions by extension update date vscode#53405 @benibenj @sandy081
• 🏃 Explore Extensions Management notification center vscode#159889 @benibenj @sandy081

API

• API finalization: query @jrieken @mjbvz
• API proposals: query @jrieken @mjbvz
• 🏃 Continue finalization of remaining proposed notebook API vscode#149861 @mjbvz @rebornix @roblourens
• 🏃 Work with LiveShare on content provider migration vscode#147248 @mjbvz
• Support context menu actions in webviews vscode#54285 @mjbvz
• vscode.open on document link doesn't accept additional arguments vscode#154993 @mjbvz
• 🏃 Improve Extensions logging vscode#159892 @sandy081

Extension Contributions

• Improvements to the Remote extensions vscode-remote-release#7160 @eleanorjboyd @chrmarti @aeschli
• GitHub Repositories: query @joyceerhl
• Improvements to the Live Preview extension: query @andreamah @roblourens
• ✋ Fix preview of forwarded ports in Codespaces for Simple Browser and Live Preview vscode-livepreview#111 @andreamah @mjbvz
• Try to link PRs to issues mentioned in the PR title vscode-pull-request-github#3739 @alexr00
• 🏃 GHPR: Adopt localization pipeline vscode-pull-request-github#3913 @alexr00

Install / Update

• Integrate with the Windows 11 explorer context menu vscode#127365 @deepak1556

Engineering

• Explore using swc for transpilation vscode#150025 @jrieken
• 💪 Explore migrating from AMD to ESM vscode#160416 @jrieken
• Sandboxing: Utility process does not support stdout and stderr vscode#155987 @bpasero @deepak1556
• 🏃 Investigate startup performance regression and improvements vscode@156864 @jrieken @bpasero @alexr00 @sandy081 <@team>
• 💪 Parcel: Support simple glob patterns for ignore rules watcher#64 @bpasero
• ✋ Linux: authentication fails on Ubuntu 22.04 vscode#159124 @TylerLeonhardt @deepak1556

Electron

• 🏃 White flashing when opening a new window vscode#132339 @rzhao271 @deepak1556
• Improve screen reader detection on macOS vscode#158008 @deepak1556
• Contribute the utility process and APIs to Electron vscode#154007 @deepak1556
• Seg fault in Linux integration tests (electron) vscode#153181 @deepak1556
• 💪 Main Request service is throwing errors for valid requests vscode#155204 @deepak1556
• WCO restore icon is off-center of the button when window is maximized electron#35038 @rzhao271
• WCO separator colour incorrect in v20 electron#35312 @rzhao271
• WCO incorrect behavior in tablet mode vscode#159851 @rzhao271 @deepak1556
• 🏃 WCO misaligned when OS is configured to RTL vscode#159813 @rzhao271 @deepak1556

Documentation

• 🏃 Review and update Configure C++ Debugging topic vscode-docs#5518 @gregvanl
• Investigate pulling out advanced, reference, and troubleshooting content from Terminal Basics vscode-docs#4809 @gregvanl @Tyriar
• 🏃 Update Azure Content, ToC vscode-docs#5614 @gregvanl @isidorn

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Deferred

• Explore testing strategies for @vscode/wasm-wasi vscode-wasm#4 @dbaeumer
• Provide a web-shell with pluggable parser and multi-line editing capabilities shell-engine-js#1 @Tyriar
• Explore accepting parts of an inline completion proposal vscode#155473 @hediet
• Publish a new version of the Monaco editor monaco-editor @hediet
• Finalize profiles import/export feature vscode#159891 @sandy081 @bpasero
• Explain how to use the merge editor vscode-docs#5618 @hediet @gregvanl
• WCO black border under buttons vscode#150778 @rzhao271
• Sandboxing: Explore adopting utility process for shared process vscode#154050 @bpasero @deepak1556
• Investigate using chardet instead of jschardet vscode#159896 @bpasero
• Support actions on quick pick categories vscode#149057 @TylerLeonhardt @daviddossett
• Explore possibility of unifying explorer selection in focus behind a setting @lramos15
• ✋ Explore creating a debug config for a terminal command vscode#150460 @connor4312
• ✋ Reload extension host on server side when connected from web and locale is changed vscode#151000 @TylerLeonhardt
• Align editor find widget with the notebook find widget vscode#144851 @rebornix
• Support shipping and automatic activation of bash and zsh completions on macOS when shell integration is enabled vscode#155733 @Tyriar @meganrogge
• Automatically create debug config with a "dry run" vscode-js-debug#1214 @connor4312
• Explore improvements to Extensions view #151599 @misolori

[JorensM]

Please add "exclude comments" option for search. It's been requested for many years now (#11688)