Iteration Plan for September 2017 #34160

This plan captures our work in September. This is a 4 week iteration. We will ship early October. It's almost getting boring, but the main focus still remains on providing support for multi-root-folder workspaces #396. However, we're getting into the home stretch, and we'll wrap up the work in the core. We'll also work with extension authors on getting their extensions ready for multi-root-folder support.

Other than that, most of the team is back from vacation. We are approaching our full capacity.

Endgame

• Sept 26th: Code freeze for the endgame
• Sept 29th: Endgame done

The endgame details for this iteration are tracked in #34939.

Plan Items

Below is a summary of the top level plan items.

Legend of annotations:

Workbench

• Avoid window reload when transitioning to multi-root-folder setup Multi root: transition without window reload #32945 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081) Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
• Explore using ripgrep for file quick-open Investigate driving quickopen with ripgrep #24074 Christof Marti (@chrmarti)
• Add touchbar support for OS X Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
• Improve editor history navigation (go back/go forward) Improve editor history navigation: merge locations #29027 Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
• code --wait returns when the editor tab is closed Support 'code -rw' in running instance and wait until tab gets closed #24327 Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)

Editor

• Support for user-defined folding regions [folding] fold regions #12146 Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli)
• Refine indent based folding for python style languages [folding] should not fold whitespace after function #3353 Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli)
• Can't create breakpoint on current line because light bulb is in the way can't create breakpoint on current line because light bulb is in the way #25174 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
• Add support for transformations in snippet placeholders Add transformations to snippets variables #6920 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
• Allow to specify file encoding per language Langauge Specific file encoding setting #19890 Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
• Optimize the drawing of the minimap Expore improvements to minimap rendering performance #34170 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar) alexandrudima

Debug

• Link origin of messages in the Debug Console Chrome debugger: Would be nice to see location of console messages #24490 Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn)
• Improve WSL support in node debugger adapter Add support for Windows Subsystem Linux vscode-node-debug#158 Andre Weinand (@weinand)
• Debt: Adapt debug adapters to new DebugConfigurationProvider adapt debug adapters to new DebugConfigurationProvider #33835 Andre Weinand (@weinand)
• Switch to official "loaded scripts" debug API Switch to official "loaded scripts" debug API #33834 Andre Weinand (@weinand)

Terminal

• Optimize terminal drawing performance Improve performance of terminal renderer #34169 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)

SCM

• Refine UI when using multiple repositories in a workspace SCM: Explore master-detail view #33363 João Moreno (@joaomoreno)

Tasks

• Support Task configuration in the multi-root-folder setup Tasks: Multi Root Support #29454 Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
• Multi-root-folder support for gulp, grunt, npm task runner Adopt multi root task support for gulp, grunt, jake and npm #34228 Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer) Erich Gamma (@egamma)

Languages

Language Server Support (vscode-languageclient, vscode-languageserver)

• 🔴 Document proposed protocol changes (ColorProvider) Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli)

Emmet

• 🏃 Support for choices in Emmet snippets Support for choices in Emmet snippets #33994 Ramya Rao (@ramya-rao-a)

JavaScript/TypeScript

• Explore how to get syntax highlighting in template strings Explore improving support for embedded languages in JS/TS template strings #34260 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• Explore improve UX for when to surface Extract Method to users Investigate improving UX for extract method #34261 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• Automatically show suggestions when entering an import statement Show TS/JS File and Folder Suggestions using Trigger Characters #21543 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz) Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
• 🔴 Adopt TypeScript v.2.5.3 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)

Extensions

• Adapt workspace extension recommendations to multi-root-folder workspaces Multi root support for extensions management #29242 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
• Improve relevance of prompted extension recommendations Extension recommended via prompt should show up higher in the recommended list #34233 Ramya Rao (@ramya-rao-a)

Extension Contributions

• 🏃 Docker: Support multi-root-folder workspaces support multi-root workspaces vscode-docker#101 Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero) Chris Dias (@chrisdias)
• 🏃 Go: Ship support for multi-root-folder workspaces Enable multi-root set up vscode-go#1142 Ramya Rao (@ramya-rao-a)
• :GitHub issues: Support multi-root folder workspaces Multi-root support vscode-github-issues-prs#21 Christof Marti (@chrmarti)

API

• Broader support for WorkspaceFolder in the API (glob, doc filter) Investigate broader support for  WorkspaceFolder in the API (glob, doc filter) #34157 Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
• Provide a picker UI for WorkspaceFolders We should have a workspace folder picker API in the Extension host #32936 Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
• Support formatted parameter hints and suggest items using MarkedString Provide API to return formatted content from suggest and parameter hints #11877 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
• Promote Open/Save dialog API to stable API Request: Function for showing an "Open File" dialog that returns the selected path #13807 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
• Debug: Add "breakpoint created/deleted" notifications Add "breakpoint created/deleted" notifications. #8642 Andre Weinand (@weinand) Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn)

Engineering

• Adopt Electron 1.7.7 electron@1.7.7 #33953 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• 🏃 Improve stability and performance of smoke test Stabilize Smoke Test #34203 João Moreno (@joaomoreno) Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn) Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
• Explore bot support in component repositories Improve automated issue management #32238 Christof Marti (@chrmarti)
• Adopt new CLA bot on GitHub Adopt the new CLA system #34239 Kai Maetzel (@kieferrm)

Documentation

• 🔴 Publish extension guide for multiple-root-folder support Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero) Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer) Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
• 🔴 Publish sample extension with multi-root-folder support Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
• Move Tips and Tricks to code.visualstudio.com Greg Van Liew (@gregvanl)
• Review and update keyboard cheatsheets Greg Van Liew (@gregvanl)
• Review debugging docs, and link up existing vscode-recipies to new debugging sections Kenneth Auchenberg (@auchenberg)

Explorations

• Provide FileSystemProvider API Build a real file system provider #34218 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
• 🔴 Support root folders populated by a FileSystemProvider (see API) Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn) Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
• Provide FtpFileSystemProvider sample Build a real file system provider #34218 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
• Explore ways how to make Electron adoptions less painful Explore ways how to make Electron adoptions less painful #34395 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)

Deferred

• Vetur: Explore support for multi-root-folder workspaces Multi root support vuejs/vetur#424 Pine (@octref)
• Support to attach debugger to an electron-spawned node process Support to attach to an electron spawned node process using the picker #25618 Andre Weinand (@weinand)
• Support to contribute a menu item for a resource suffix (e.g. *.zip) Add pattern matching to when clause, when contributing menus  #26044 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
• Debug: Expose debug status such as started/stopped Expose debug status #30810 Andre Weinand (@weinand)
• Debug: Allow access to current launch configuration in an extension Getting hold of current launch configuration in the extension #23564 Andre Weinand (@weinand)
• Promote Color Provider API to stable ColorProvider API: Let extensions define the color formats #34366 Peng Lyu (@rebornix) Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
• Add Multi-root workspace topic Greg Van Liew (@gregvanl)