Iteration Plan for November 2018 #62876

This plan captures our work in November. This is a 5-week iteration. We will ship our November Update - the last of the year - in the first half of December. As in 2018, there will be no update in early January 2019. The next major update will be in early February 2019.

We have a full plan stretching from polishing functionality that we introduced earlier such as reference lists and multi-line search, to smaller productivity features such as Commit & Push, all the way to getting ready for electron 3.0 and adopting the new tree implementation throughout our code base. We also start exploring what it takes to make developing on WSL on Windows more natural. Some of us will also eat a lot in the middle of the iteration.

Endgame

• December 3, 2018: Code freeze for the endgame
• December 7, 2018: Endgame done

The endgame details for this iteration are tracked in #64182.

Plan Items

Below is a summary of the top level plan items.

Legend of annotations:

Workbench

• 🏃 Explore flexible panel/sidebar layout Investigate to rewrite workbench layout using grid widget #50853 SteVen Batten (@sbatten) João Moreno (@joaomoreno)
• Polish viewlet that shows search reference results make finding all references more user-friendly #22261 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
• Improve multiline search experience Allow multiline search to be enabled without regex #62304, Multiline search widget #62961 roblourens
• Support overflow in custom menubar and menus Context menus do not overflow #52533 No menu overflow causes problems with narrow windows/long titles #57756 SteVen Batten (@sbatten)
• Enable custom menubar on Linux by default Switch to custom menus in Linux by default #62727 SteVen Batten (@sbatten)
• Improve rendering of diagnostics in hovers and F8 Error hover semantic information should be rendered separate of error message #62370 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
• Explore deprecating the old settings editor Consider deprecating the split JSON settings editor #62964 roblourens

UX

• Explore streamlining design for hovers, completion items, signature help Explore improving UX for IntelliSense #63144 @misolori
• Explore welcome page improvements Explore improving UX for Welcome Page #63152 @misolori

Monaco Editor

• Publish a new editor version alexandrudima

Tasks

• Support input parameters for Tasks Task Runner: Provide input parameters #4758 Alex Ross (@alexr00)
• Support to start a task automatically Auto start watch task #17147 Alex Ross (@alexr00)
• Explore to automatically attach problem matcher when running in the terminal Explore improving attach problem matcher UX #62937 Alex Ross (@alexr00)

Source Control

• Support one-step action Commit & Push Add git autopush option when committing (revisited) #62058 João Moreno (@joaomoreno)
• Provide option to open file on single click from SCM viewlet Git: Support to open file on click, by default #63005 João Moreno (@joaomoreno)

Languages

• 🏃 Improve expand selection support Expand selection functionality issues #4795 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
• Add "Go to Declaration" feature Add support for Goto Declaration #62483 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
• Add go-to-declaration request to LSP Add support for Goto declaration language-server-protocol#605 Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)

JavaScript/TypeScript

• Adopt TS version 3.2 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz) Bundle TypeScript 3.2 #63179
• Allow VS Code extensions to configure TS Server plugins Allow vscode extensions to configure TS Server plugins #63181

CSS/HTML

• 🏃 Support custom tags and properties in HTML and CSS Web Components support in HTML files #62976 Pine (@octref)

Debug

• Loaded Scripts view improvements (observing changes, explore filtering based on new tree) Loaded Scripts view improvements (new Tree widget, observing changes, filtering) #62939 Andre Weinand (@weinand)
• Polish multi-debug console support Need launch config option to disable multiple debug consoles #62419 Debug consoles cannot be deleted #62418 multi debug console feature is not aligned with integrated and external terminals #62420 Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn)
• Explore supporting data break points Possibility to add data breakpoints #58304 Andre Weinand (@weinand)
• Explore minimal multi-step quick pick providing guidance for creating launch configs Leaner launch.json generation #62851 Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn)
• Investigate issues with debugging apps generated with create-react-app Debugger Won't hit breakpoints in jest test #60187 roblourens
• Enable Smart Step by default Enable smartStep by default for node debugging #62965 roblourens

Extension Contributions

• 🏃 Migrate vscode-tslint to use tslint as a TS server plugin Todo typescript-tslint-plugin#1 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• GitHub PR extension Plan for November 2018 vscode-pull-request-github#678 Peng Lyu (@rebornix) Rachel Macfarlane (@RMacfarlane)

Extensions

• Support installing the previous version of an extension Ability to install older extension #12764 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)

API

• Help extensions moving off the htmlPreview Deprecating previewHtml #62630 command Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• Explore alternatives to FileIndexProvider Remove/evolve FileIndexProvider #59922 roblourens
• API finalization: query
• API proposals: query

Serviceability

• Identify extensions causing the extension host to be unresponsive, provide support for generating a CPU profile, hint user about the performance problem caused by the extension. Profile extension host when needed #60332 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
• Support to start debugging directly from within the process explorer Allow to debug process right from the Process Explorer #63147 Rachel Macfarlane (@RMacfarlane)

Exploration

• 🏃 Explore support for developing on WSL Explore support for developing on WSL #63155 alexandrudima team

Engineering

• Continue Electron 3.0 adoption, migrate local storage Explore update to Electron 3 #52629 Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
• WinJS.Promise removal WinJS.Promise removal plan #53526 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken) team
• 🏃 Strict null checking VS Code Strict null checking VS Code #60565 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz) team
• Document new Tree widget implementation (https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/wiki/Lists-And-Trees) João Moreno (@joaomoreno)
• Support the adoption of the new Tree widget João Moreno (@joaomoreno)
  • 🏃 Adopt new tree widget in Search roblourens
  • 🏃 Adopt new tree widget in Settings roblourens
  • Adopt new tree in peek references ui Johannes Rieken (@jrieken) Adopt data tree for references peek view #63904
  • Adopt new tree widget Outline Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
  • 🏃 Adopt new tree widget in the debugger Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn), Andre Weinand (@weinand)

Documentation

• 🏃 Continue extensibility documentation improvements Plan to continue polish extension doc vscode-docs#2199 Pine (@octref) team

Deferred Items

• Revisit the explorer context menu (cut, duplicate, open folder) Please add the file/folder cut command to the context menu and the releated shortcut. #61110 Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn) Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
• 💪 Explore flatting folder hierarchies in the explorer Explorer: Support compact folder rendering #41627 Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn) João Moreno (@joaomoreno)
• Explore Debug API: Debug Config Provider to return launch configurations dynamically Debug Provider to return launch configurations 'in-memory' to the debugger #54212 Andre Weinand (@weinand)
• Adopt new tree widget in the workbench Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn)
• Support a post install/update hook for extensions Support Platform Specific Extensions #23251 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081) João Moreno (@joaomoreno)
• Explore generalizing NPM Script Explorer into a Task runner view Provide Task Runner viewlet #28235 Alex Ross (@alexr00)
• 💪 Use browser logic for improved word navigation in CJK Feature request: Treat the Chinese text as a Chinese sequence when usingCtrl+Left/Right #50045 Peng Lyu (@rebornix)
• Explore impact of Webview changes in electron 3.0 on extensions Matt Bierner (@mjbvz) Test webview extensions on electron 3.0 #63180
• 💪 Revisit Javascript end user documentation Matt Bierner (@mjbvz) Greg Van Liew (@gregvanl) Explore reorganizing js/ts docs vscode-docs#2190