Iteration Plan for February 2019 #68293

This plan captures our work in February. This is a 4 week iteration, and we will ship our February Update in in early March. We'll continue work we started in the previous iteration, and we started to pick up items from our roadmap.

Endgame

• February 25, 2019: Code freeze for the endgame (Zurich freezes on February 22)
• March 1, 2019: Endgame done

The endgame details for this iteration are tracked in #69177.

Plan Items

Below is a summary of the top level plan items.

Legend of annotations:

Workbench

• Revisit the custom menubar on Linux Do not use CSD by default on Linux #65608 SteVen Batten (@sbatten)
• Simplify switching to an newly installed theme Improve user experience while installing themes #68408 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081) Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli)
• Adopt new tree in Outline Adopt Object tree for outline and breadcrumbs #64727 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken) João Moreno (@joaomoreno)

UX

• 🏃 Iconography re-design Inconsistent weight and use of color in iconography throughout UI #8017 @misolori

Editor

• Improve hover presentation for complex errors Improve hover presentation for complex errors #67076 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
• Adopt new tree in bread crumb Adopt Object tree for outline and breadcrumbs #64727 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken) João Moreno (@joaomoreno)

Tasks

• 🏃 Add support for custom execution in addition to ShellExecution and ProcessExecution Allow extension to provide callback functions as tasks #66818 Alex Ross (@alexr00)

Languages

• 🏃 Support semantic selections Expand selection functionality issues #4795 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)

LSP

• Support semantic selections Feature request: "document/extendSelection" for semantic selection language-server-protocol#613 Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
• 🏃 PR #426 LSP support for type hierarchies Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
• 🏃 PR #420 LSP support for call hierarchies Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
• 🏃 PR #261 LSP support for progress reporting Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)

JavaScript/TypeScript

• Adopt TypeScript 3.3.x Bundle TypeScript 3.3.x #68823 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)

CSS/HTML

• Update CSS and HTML language services with MDN data Make HTML Language Service data driven vscode-html-languageservice#44 Pine (@octref)

Debug

• Support a "debug target ready" hook for launch configs Support a "debug target ready" hook for launch configs #69311 Andre Weinand (@weinand)
• Explore how to support extending the debug toolbar Allow customisation of debug toolbar (eg. additional buttons) #45116 Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn)
• 🏃 Providing additional hooks for generating launch.json Provide extension hooks to generate debugger configuration when clicking Add Configuration button #65988 Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn)
• Investigate Find in Console Debug Console should support find #4338 Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn)

Debug Adapter Protocol

• Finalize data breakpoints Data breakpoints proposal debug-adapter-protocol#20 Andre Weinand (@weinand)
• Investigate protocol addition to support opening a page in the browser Debug protocol: Support browser launching debug-adapter-protocol#23 Andre Weinand (@weinand)

Extension Contributions

• Work with extension authors on adoption of dynamic loading of extensions Allow third party extension points to be marked with isDynamic #67958 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081) alexandrudima
• Migrate vscode-tslint to use tslint as a TS server plugin Todo typescript-tslint-plugin#1 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz) Erich Gamma (@egamma)
• Contributions to the GitHub PR extension Plan for February 2019 vscode-pull-request-github#921 Peng Lyu (@rebornix) Rachel Macfarlane (@RMacfarlane)
• Contributions to the Vetur extension https://github.com/vuejs/vetur/milestone/5 Pine (@octref)

Extensions

• Webpack eslint extension Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)

API

• API finalization: query
• API proposals: query
• Reconsider comment provider APIs Comments API refactor #68020 Peng Lyu (@rebornix) Rachel Macfarlane (@RMacfarlane) Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)

Exploration

• 🏃 Explore support for developing on WSL Explore support for developing on WSL #63155 alexandrudima team
• 🏃 Explore supporting Electron 5.0 default renderer configuration Explore supporting Electron 5.0 default renderer configuration #68302 Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero) SteVen Batten (@sbatten)
• Explore webview rendered code insets Code inset feature #66418 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)

Engineering

• Ensure user need to choose target when filing issues Issue reporter: force reporter of an issue to make a choice whether the issue is for VS Code or an extension #66080 Rachel Macfarlane (@RMacfarlane)
• Ensure all of our built-in extensions support dynamic loading Make markdown extension points dynamic #67574 Make the typescript plugins extension point dynamic #67575 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz) team
• 🏃 Strict null checking VS Code Strict null checking VS Code #60565 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz) team
• Compile TS to ES6 Compile to ES6 #65372 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)

Documentation

• Revisit Javascript end user documentation Explore reorganizing js/ts docs vscode-docs#2190 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz) Greg Van Liew (@gregvanl)
• 🏃 Create a guide for webpacking extensions bundle extension using webpack #64532, add webpack topic vscode-docs#2403, Recommend bundling extension vscode-vsce#333 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)

Deferred Items

• Explore flatting folder hierarchies in the explorer Explorer: Support compact folder rendering #41627 Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn) João Moreno (@joaomoreno)
• ✋ Electron 4.0 upgrade Explore update to Electron 4 #61787 Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
• Explore alternative extension install/management experiences Explore Extensions Management UX #68527 @misolori Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
• Improve presentation of debugged subprocesses Display debugged sub-processes as a treeview #62972 Andre Weinand (@weinand)
• Investigate reviving translations for the Monaco editor Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
• Improve user experience when multiple-formatters are registered Make it clear what happens when multiple formatters for one document apply #41882 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken) Pine (@octref)