Iteration Plan for January 2023

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This plan captures our work in January. This is a 4-week iteration. We will ship in early February. The release will also contain minor improvements and bug fixes that happened during our December Housekeeping Iteration.

Endgame

• January 23, 2023: Endgame begins
• January 27, 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
• Support arrow key navigation in Setting indicators vscode#167470 @rzhao271

UX

• Explore how to better express view display styles (tree versus list) vscode#162595 @daviddossett
• 🏃 Explore updated built-in themes vscode#164924 @daviddossett
• 🏃 Explore UI density modes vscode#115641 @daviddossett
• 🏃 Explore an integrated way to introduce unique vscode.dev behaviors vscode#166895 @daviddossett @joyceerhl
• 🏃 Introduce an experimental modal walkthrough for web experiences vscode#171190 @bhavyaus @joyceerhl
• 🏃 Explore lightweight toast UI vscode#166891 @daviddossett @bpasero

Workbench

• Ship profiles vscode#116740 @sandy081
• Improve performance of the Settings Editor query @rzhao271
• Allow glob patterns for native file watcher excludes vscode#137872 @bpasero
• Add a confirmation to open large files behind a setting vscode#170090 @bpasero
• Improve first time experience for command palette vscode#169091 @TylerLeonhardt @digitarald
• Improve custom titlebar layout performance vscode#169866 @sbatten
• Support keyboard-based trusting of a workspace vscode#170310 @sbatten
• Improvements to Keyboard Shortcuts Editor vscode#151599 @sandy081
  • Specify which extension provides a specific keyboard shortcut vscode#121673 @sandy081
  • Enhance filtering Keyboard Shortcuts with chords vscode#80181 @sandy081
  • Keybinding UI editor should support context key suggestions vscode#116855 @sandy081

Continue-On

• 🏃 Surface Continue-On in more places vscode#165406 @joyceerhl
• Surface transitions in Remote Indicator vscode#162259 @joyceerhl
• Add additional Continue-On transitions vscode#162118 @joyceerhl
• Auto-publish unpublished branch state when invoking Continue Working On on desktop vscode#160237 @joyceerhl
• Add a way to discover extensions which contribute Continue On options vscode#165105 @joyceerhl

WebAssembly Runtime Support

• 🏃 💪 Explore provide a web-shell shell-engine-js#1 @dbaeumer @Tyriar

Code Editor

• Suggest Mode for auto complete #vscode/139825 @jrieken
• Partial suggestion acceptance - discoverability/keybinding vscode#140708 @hediet

Notebook Editor

• Drop NotebookContentProvider usage in the Interactive Window vscode#165252 @amunger @rebornix
• Remove kernel preloads globals API vscode#163513 @mjbvz @DonJayamanne
• 🏃 Enable scrollable notebook outputs vscode-jupyter#7096 @amunger
• Improve updating outputs when re-running a cell vscode#132143 @rebornix @roblourens
• 🏃 Explore notebook specific list view and layout improvements vscode#170881 @rebornix @roblourens
• 🏃 Explore a built-in variables viewer vscode#165445 @roblourens
• 🏃 Allow searching dirty changes in open notebook editors in global search vscode#95275 @andreamah
• 🏃 Allow searching rich content in notebooks in global search vscode#164926 @andreamah
• 🏃 Explore how to stop hanging network request from preventing the opening of notebooks vscode#166860 @mjbvz
• 🏃 Explore localization support for notebook renderers vscode#170919 @TylerLeonhardt @mjbvz
• 🏃 Explore UX to surface common notebook renderer performance issues vscode#170309 @sbatten @rebornix

Jupyter Notebooks

• Contributions to the vscode-jupyter extension vscode-jupyter#12474 team

Languages

Python

• Contributions to the python extension vscode-python#20450 @brettcannon team

Python WebAssembly Runtime Support

• 💪 Explore support for statically linking and loading native modules @dbaeumer @brettcannon
• Strategy for testing packages against CPython WASI - work across CPython and VS Code; python doc issue, pytest issue wasm-wasi issue; @brettcannon @dbaeumer
• 🏃 How do users find packages that work in CPython WASI? issue; @brettcannon
• 💪 Explore support for notebooks @dbaeumer

JavaScript/TypeScript

• 🏃 Project-wide IntelliSense on the web vscode#170920 @mjbvz

Debug Adapter Protocol

• 🏃 Memory reuse debug-adapter-protocol#238 @connor4312 @roblourens
• Clarify combination of log point and conditional breakpoint debug-adapter-protocol#363 @roblourens

Testing

• Auto run tests vscode#134941 @connor4312

Terminal

• 🏃 Support external terminals as a default for WSL sessions vscode#167865 @Tyriar
• Provide Quick Fixes for new pwsh feedback provider apis vscode#170484 @Tyriar
• Fix env var collection on macOS vscode#99878 @Tyriar
• 🏃 Continue pwsh autocomplete vscode#154662 @Tyriar
• Explore UX and API for a proper Co-pilot integration vscode#170485 @Tyriar

Tasks

• Address paper cuts vscode#167061 @meganrogge

Source Control

• 🏃 Git: Performance work query @lszomoru
• 🏃 Git: Prompt before opening repos outside workspace vscode#169256 @lszomoru

API

• 💪 Allow FileSystemProviders to set the read-only file message vscode#166971 @jrieken
• 🏃 Support QuickDiffProvider without SourceControl registration vscode#169012 @alexr00
• Finalize Telemetry API for extension authors vscode#160090 @lramos15 @jrieken
• API finalization: query @jrieken @mjbvz
• API proposals: query @jrieken @mjbvz

Extensions

• Launch Extension Repository Signing to Stable vscode#169550 @isidorn @dtivel @sandy081
• Lint redundant explicitly listed activation events in package.json vscode#170984 @joyceerhl
• Support pinning extension version when installed from CLI vscode#63903 @sandy081
• Supporting syncing specific extension installed version vscode#157079 @sandy081
• Allow translations for language servers vscode#168594 @TylerLeonhardt

Extension Contributions

• Improvements to the Remote extensions vscode-remote-release#7783 @eleanorjboyd @chrmarti @aeschli
• Improvements to the GitHub Repositories extension query @joyceerhl @bhavyaus
• Live Preview: Add option to specify which external browser vscode-livepreview#69 @andreamah
• Live Preview: Add option to specify the root path of the server vscode-livepreview#155 @andreamah
• 🏃 Fix preview of forwarded ports in Codespaces for Simple Browser and Live Preview vscode-livepreview#111 @andreamah @mjbvz
• Support GitHub's suggested changes vscode-pull-request-github#603 @alexr00
• Support setting labels on PRs at creation time vscode-pull-request-github#2436 @alexr00
• 🏃 Support permalink rendering vscode-pull-request-github#4229 @alexr00
• Move js-debug to l10n API vscode#164438 @connor4312 @TylerLeonhardt

Performance

• Investigate moving away from the styler pattern vscode#165478 @aeschli
• Why is the npm extension using workspaceContains:package.json? vscode#163480 @joyceerhl
• 🏃 Explore setTimeout for onStartupFinished extensions vscode#164593 @joyceerhl
• 🏃 💪 Explore delaying doing * activation extensions until initial activation events are finished vscode#171135 @joyceerhl
• Investigate slow stacks reported to telemetry & ramp up the experiment vscode#170954 @jrieken
• Add detailed telemetry for RPC payloads with large serialization/deserialization times vscode#170955 @jrieken @alexdima
• 🏃 VSCode Perf Tool - Tool to measure performance of VSCode vscode-perf#1 @bpasero @sandy081
• ⬛ PGO for VSCode Desktop vscode#170931 @deepak1556

Engineering

• 🏃 Explore migrating from AMD to ESM vscode#160416 @jrieken @alexdima
• 🏃 Sandboxing: Investigate increased extension host crash rate in stable @bpasero @deepak1556 @digitarald
• Investigate insiders startup regression vscode#168639 @jrieken @bpasero @sandy081
• Sandbox: enable utility process by default in stable @bpasero

Electron

• Investigate Electron 22 upgrade vscode#166265 @deepak1556
• Drop support for macOS 10.11 vscode#123374 @deepak1556
• Screen reader not detected on macOS vscode#167627 @deepak1556
• Native crash in macOS smoke tests vscode#168415 @deepak1556
• Crash when closing active macOS native tab vscode#167936 @deepak1556
• Fix locale and language-dependent code in the product vscode#169114 @rzhao271 @TylerLeonhardt

Documentation

• 🏃 Update Azure Content, ToC vscode-docs#5614 @gregvanl @isidorn
• Restructure and refresh dev containers docs within new Dev Containers node vscode-docs#5737 @bamurtaugh @gregvanl

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Deferred

• Support an RTL layout of the titlebar based on WCO vscode#164397 @sbatten
• Explore improvements to the extensions list vscode#151599 @esonnino @sandy081
• Update source control documentation to include the merge editor vscode-docs#5618 @hediet @gregvanl
• Add an Git introductory page vscode-docs#5677 @digitarald
• Investigate large screen update under remote desktop vscode#164503 @deepak1556
• Improving the developer experience for the CLI within the vscode repo vscode#171515 @connor4312 @aeschli
• Sandboxing: Adopt utility process for shared process, file watchers and terminal host vscode#154050 @bpasero @deepak1556 @Tyriar
• Git: Support untracked folders vscode#169253 @lszomoru
• Related code vscode#126932 @connor4312
• Move background tokenization to a web worker vscode#147066 @hediet
• Support coloring a subset of the matched brackets vscode#170497 @hediet
• Publish new Monaco Editor website with improved playground monaco-editor#3483 @hediet
• Publish new Monaco Editor version CHANGELOG.md @hediet
• Evaluate iPad support vscode#170498 @hediet
• Provide built-in Profiles vscode#166359 @isidorn @sandy081
• 🔴 🏃 Explore surfacing the remote experiences on the welcome page @bhavyaus
• Improve introduction to Command Palette in get started walkthrough vscode#166735 @esonnino @bhavyaus
• Improvements to Getting Started experience query @bhavyaus
• Convert LSIF to the new npm publish pipeline #3191 @dbaeumer
• Explore possibility of unifying explorer selection in focus behind a setting @lramos15
• 🏃 White flashing when opening a new window vscode#132339 @rzhao271 @deepak1556
• 💪 Explore ways to improve interacting with root files and folders in a crowded explorer view @lramos15 vscode#151630\
• 💪 Stabilize DocumentPasteEditProvider API to support pasting images vscode#30066 @mjbvz
• SCM: Notification API vscode#161200 @lszomoru
• Support profiles in remote workspaces vscode#165247 @sandy081
• Finalize or remove the notebookControllerKind API Proposal vscode#168535 @mjbvz @rebornix