Iteration Plan for September 2021 #132467

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

Endgame

• September 27, 2021: Endgame
• October 1, 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:

Accessibility

• Accessibility issues, see query Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn) team
• 💪 Improve accessibility of the comments peek view vscode#110408 Peng Lyu (@rebornix)

Workbench

• Allow extensions to register groups of settings for the settings editor vscode#126089 Raymond Zhao (@rzhao271)
• Ensure UI stability when updating QuickPick.items vscode#109969 TylerLeonhardt
• Provide individual user settings for error and usage telemetry vscode#132552 Logan Ramos (@lramos15) SteVen Batten (@sbatten)
• Explore second sidebar vscode#132893 SteVen Batten (@sbatten)
• Continue user testing on new welcome pages vscode#125117 Harald Kirschner (@digitarald)
• 🏃 Explore extension content contributions to the welcome page vscode#118402 Harald Kirschner (@digitarald)
• Improve markdown preview scrolling behavior vscode#119370 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• Make Help menu entries more useful for exploration vscode#132158 Harald Kirschner (@digitarald)
• Exploration for moving new/recent column from Welcome Editor to Explorer view vscode#127681 Harald Kirschner (@digitarald)
• 🏃 Problems view - add support to sort by message contents vscode#98819 Ladislau Szomoru (@lszomoru)
• Continue locked editor groups exploration vscode#124709 Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
• Allow to split an editor into two editors in a single group vscode#36700 Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
• Address confusion when a user wants to open a folder but runs 'Open Workspace...' vscode#131793 Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)

Web

• Improve drag&drop behavior vscode#133116 SteVen Batten (@sbatten) Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero) Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn)

UX

• 🏃 💪 Explore how to effectively signal limited language support to users, e.g. in untrusted folders David Dossett (@daviddossett) @misolori vscode#133049
• Explore how to indicate read-only and deleted files open in editors more effectively vscode#130526 @misolori Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
• Explore aligning in-editor peek views (test, problems, references, etc.) UX vscode#130516 @misolori Connor Peet (@connor4312) Johannes Rieken (@jrieken) Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
• 💪 Continue exploration of profiles vscode#116740 @lydiayschung Sana Ajani (@sana-ajani) @misolori
• 🏃 💪 Explore improving the "Show Running Extensions" view @lydiayschung @misolori vscode#133136

Code Editor

• Improve auto complete and ghosted text interaction vscode#131940 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
• Native bracket pair colorizer add support for rendering 'scope' lines vscode#131001 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
• 🏃 Adopt bracket AST infrastructure for all bracket related features vscode#132536 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
• Improve undo for the auto tag close by leveraging the new editor events vscode#34484 Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli)
• Publish a new Monaco editor release changelog of 0.28.0 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)

Notebooks

• Explore improvements to the end-to-end experience of opening your first Jupyter (Python) notebook vscode#128592 @misolori team
• Support notebook content provider, renderers, and controller extensions in the marketplace vscode#123581 Connor Peet (@connor4312) Peng Lyu (@rebornix)
• 🏃 Improve discoverability of available/installable output renderers for given mime types vscode#131031 @misolori Peng Lyu (@rebornix)
• 🏃 💪 Explore ways to show execution progress while the executing cell is out of the viewport vscode#130611 @misolori roblourens
• Investigate an extension contribution point for a notebook type debugger vscode#132014 roblourens Andre Weinand (@weinand)

Notebook Editor

• 🏃 Investigate scroll performance issues in notebooks vscode#126880 Peng Lyu (@rebornix)
• 🏃 Improve rendering jitter in notebooks vscode#126432 roblourens
• 🏃 Improve discoverability of cell folding @misolori roblourens vscode#132690
• Improve usability of in-between cell toolbar vscode#133205 roblourens
• 🏃 Explore option for allowing to run all cells in a folded markdown region vscode#133690 @misolori

Jupyter Notebooks

• Explore debugging in Jupyter notebooks (line-by-line versus full debugging support) vscode#126431 roblourens David Kutugata (@DavidKutu) Andre Weinand (@weinand)
• Contributions to the vscode-jupyter extension vscode-jupyter#7428 Jim Griesmer (@greazer) team

Notebook Engineering

• 🏃 Improve code structure and dependecies vscode#131808 roblourens Peng Lyu (@rebornix)
• Improve overall quality (rendering failures, z-index issues, ...) query roblourens Peng Lyu (@rebornix)

Languages

• 🏃 Add support for a language status indicator vscode#129037 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz) Johannes Rieken (@jrieken) David Dossett (@daviddossett).
• Adopt the language status indicator:
  • TypeScript Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
  • 🏃 ESLint Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
  • Java Java team
  • C# Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
• Finish Type Hierarchy API with the Java extension team Java team Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
• 🏃 Finish Type Inlay UI/API Johannes Rieken (@jrieken) Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)

LSP /LSIF

• Add "TypeHierarchy" support with the Java extension team Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer) Java team
• Support TS 4.4 final in the TypeScript LSIF indexer lsif-node#131 Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)

Python

• Contributions to the python extension vscode-python#17468 Brett Cannon (@brettcannon) team

Debug

• 🏃 Continue investigation: extension debugging in a clean environment vscode#126737 Andre Weinand (@weinand)
• 🏃 Investigation: Exclude breakpoint from specific caller vscode#127775 Andre Weinand (@weinand) roblourens
• 🏃 Finalize the disassembly view support with the C++ extension team vscode#124163 roblourens Andre Weinand (@weinand) C++ team
• 🏃 Explore integration of a memory inspector vscode-js-debug#1008 Connor Peet (@connor4312)
• 🏃 Help top language extensions to support single file debugging experiences vscode#132329 Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn)

js-debug

• 🏃 Support inline value providers for TS/JS TypeScript#43449 Connor Peet (@connor4312) Andre Weinand (@weinand)

Testing

• Provide support for tags vscode#129456 Connor Peet (@connor4312)
• Support non-error output for test runs vscode#129201 Connor Peet (@connor4312)
• 💪 Explore APIs for test coverage vscode#123713 Connor Peet (@connor4312)

Terminal

• Explore support for fixed-width terminals vscode#74501 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar) Megan Rogge (@meganrogge)
• Include cwd in terminal title vscode#29816 Megan Rogge (@meganrogge)
• 🏃 💪 Explore ways to make rendering edge cases more reliable vscode#131580 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• Save terminal buffer/cwd/icon/etc. on restart vscode#131634 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar) Megan Rogge (@meganrogge)

Source Control

• 🏃 Explore UI additions to help guide users to push to a remote after committing vscode#110882 Eric Amodio (@eamodio)

API

• API finalization: query
• API proposals: query
• 🏃 Explore API access to open editors including focused notebooks or custom editors vscode#15178 Logan Ramos (@lramos15)

Extensions

• Support platform specific extensions vscode#23251 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081) João Moreno (@joaomoreno) Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn)
• Explore support for an 'insider version' for an extension vscode#15756 vscode#111521 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081) Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn)
• Explore simplifying enabling/disabling a group of extensions for a workspace vscode#40239 Ladislau Szomoru (@lszomoru)
• Explore how extensions could extend Report Issue to collect extension specific data vscode#46726 TylerLeonhardt

Extension Contributions

• Improvements to the Remote extensions Alex Ross (@alexr00) roblourens Christof Marti (@chrmarti) Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli) vscode-remote-release#5552
• Improvements to the GitHub PRI extension query Alex Ross (@alexr00)
• Improvements to the GitHub Repositories extension vscode-remote-repositories-github#54 Eric Amodio (@eamodio) Alex Ross (@alexr00)
• 🏃 Stabilize/maintain the Live Preview extension query Ladislau Szomoru (@lszomoru)
• 🏃 Work with popular extension on adopting and improving their welcome pages (e.g. docker) vscode#118402 Harald Kirschner (@digitarald)

Install

• ✋ Explore adding Insiders the new Windows Store vscode#130410 SteVen Batten (@sbatten)

Engineering

• 🏃 Investigate consolidating the FileWatcher implementations by building on the multi-root file watcher vscode#132483 Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
• Explore how to support a more scoped access to proposed API vscode#131165 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken) Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• 🏃 Adopt vscode namespace for npm packages vscode#130301 Connor Peet (@connor4312) team
• Improve reliability of the webview tests vscode#132596 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)

Builds

• 💪 Explore to use playwright for our desktop smoke tests vscode#128479 Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero) João Moreno (@joaomoreno)

Electron

• 🏃 Refactor startup code to use electron's requestSingleInstanceLock API vscode#97626 Raymond Zhao (@rzhao271)
• Implement macOS CLI using open vscode#102975 Raymond Zhao (@rzhao271)
• Windows occlusion tracker has incorrect behavior with vscode debugger vscode#123257 Robo (@deepak1556)
• 🏃 Investigate the impact of windows sandbox for vscode installs vscode#122951 Robo (@deepak1556)
• Fix v8 crash when debugging unit tests vscode#122225 Robo (@deepak1556)
• Explore feasability of webworker support in electron webviews vscode#87282 Robo (@deepak1556)

Node.js-free, sand-boxed renderer

• 🏃 Remove node.js dependency from tunnel service vscode#122723 Alexandru Dima (@alexdima)
• 🏃 Move search app out of renderer into shared process or extension host vscode#118200 roblourens
• Explore launching the extension host from the shared process vscode#123592 Alexandru Dima (@alexdima)
• 🏃 Investigate moving the file service out of the renderer vscode#132282 Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)

Deferred

• Add data points in runtime code to understand a rare service worker registration failure on linux vscode#125993 Robo (@deepak1556)
• TypeScript single file debugging vscode#124280 Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn) Gabrielle Crevecoeur (@gcrev93)
• 🔴 Improve feedback on kernel startup @misolori Jim Griesmer (@greazer) roblourens
• Adopt new injected text infrastructure for other features that inject text vscode#132537, e.g., inline values Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
• Improve iPad support (keyboard/trackpad/mouse and touch) query Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn) team
• ✋ Explore showing the verified publisher badge from the marketplace vscode#127825 Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn) @misolori Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
• 💪 Explore improving zero-knowledge onboarding into a well-tuned TS setup (tasks, tests, debugging, etc.) vscode#121345 Jackson Kearl (@JacksonKearl)
• ✋ Fix vscode-encrypt loading in snap builds vscode#116690 Robo (@deepak1556)
• Use sounds to notify screenreader users when inline suggestions or decorations are present, e.g. a breakpoint is on a current line vscode#130565 see also Henning Dieterichs (@hediet) Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn)