Iteration Plan for March 2019 #70102

This plan captures our work in March. We will ship our March Update in in early April. We entered March with a considerable number of items still in progress. We'll focus on those first. We'll look into providing support for Call Hierachies, UI and Language Server Protocol. We'll make it easier to develop extensions and contribute to our documentations. And we'll keep looking into getting ready for electron 5.0. We'll also continue our good deeds for the Vetur extension.

Endgame

• March 25, 2019: Code freeze for the endgame
• March 29, 2019: Endgame done

The endgame details for this iteration are tracked in #71059.

Plan Items

Below is a summary of the top level plan items.

Legend of annotations:

Workbench

• Simplify switching between display languages Suggestion: ability to restart when changing language #22758 Rachel Macfarlane (@RMacfarlane)
• Allow users to filter intellisense suggestions Allow intellisense suggestions to be filtered by the user #45039 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)

UX

• 🏃 Iconography re-design Inconsistent weight and use of color in iconography throughout UI #8017 @misolori
• 🏃 Explore Extensions Management UX Explore Extensions Management UX #68527 @misolori Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)

Editor

• Investigate reviving translations for the Monaco editor Bring back translation for standalone editor #71065 Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)

Terminal

• Improve layering and code structure Daniel Imms (@Tyriar) Revisit need for node/electron-browser in workbench/contrib/terminal #69115

Languages

• Support semantic selections Expand selection functionality issues #4795 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
• Explore support for a Call Hierarchy view Feature request: Call Hierarchy #16110 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)

LSP

• 🏃 LSP support for type hierarchies PR #426 Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
• 🏃 LSP support for call hierarchies PR #420 Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
• 🏃 LSP support for progress reporting PR #261 Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)

JavaScript/TypeScript

• Adopt TypeScript 3.4 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz) Adopt TS 3.4 #70434

Debug

• Providing additional hooks for generating launch.json Provide extension hooks to generate debugger configuration when clicking Add Configuration button #65988 Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn)
• Improve presentation of debugged subprocesses Display debugged sub-processes as a treeview #62972 Andre Weinand (@weinand) Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn)
• Finish serverReadyAction support Productise "debug target ready" hook for launch configs #69898 Andre Weinand (@weinand)

Extension Contributions

• Contributions to the GitHub PR extension Plan for March 2019 vscode-pull-request-github#1023 Peng Lyu (@rebornix) Rachel Macfarlane (@RMacfarlane)
• Contributions to the Vetur extension https://github.com/vuejs/vetur/milestone/6 Pine (@octref)

Extensions

• Remove postInstall by moving vscode.d.ts to @types on npm @types/vscode for extension usage #70175 Pine (@octref)
• Improve user experience when multiple-formatters are registered Make it clear what happens when multiple formatters for one document apply #41882 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
• Improve proxy support for extensions Investigate loading CA certificates from OS #52880 Christof Marti (@chrmarti)

API

• API finalization: query
• API proposals: query
• Replace proposed comment provider APIs Comments API refactor #68020 Peng Lyu (@rebornix)

Install

• 🏃 Provide Linux snap packages for for stable and insiders João Moreno (@joaomoreno)

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) team

Engineering

• Strict null checking VS Code Strict null checking VS Code #60565 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz) team

Documentation

• Make it easier to contribute to our documentation by using git lfs Reduce size of repo vscode-docs#1789 Pine (@octref)

Deferred Items

• Electron 4.0 upgrade Explore update to Electron 4 #61787 Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
• Explore flatting folder hierarchies in the explorer Explorer: Support compact folder rendering #41627 Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn) João Moreno (@joaomoreno)