Iteration Plan for January 2022 #139607

This plan captures our work in January. This is a 4-week iteration. We will ship in early February.

Endgame

• January 24, 2022: Endgame begins
• January 28, 2022: 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

UX

• 🏃 Develop VS Code design system (classifying patterns for activity bar/sidebar/views/etc.) vscode#140601 @misolori
• Explore possible integrations between extensions view and GH Sponsors vscode#107482 Lydia Chung (@lychung7) Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn)

Workbench

• Improve secondary side panel vscode#132893 SteVen Batten (@sbatten)
• Explore support for virtual trees based on name patterns vscode#6328 Jackson Kearl (@JacksonKearl)
• Improve keyboard interactions for undo/redo in explorer vscode#117621 Jackson Kearl (@JacksonKearl)
• Allow to open a folder in a walkthrough while preserving the walkthrough state vscode#137544 Jackson Kearl (@JacksonKearl)
• 🏃 Improve language detection model to better deal with small inputs vscode#137104 Jackson Kearl (@JacksonKearl) TylerLeonhardt
• 🏃 Allow to resize the ToC in the settings editor vscode#79581 Raymond Zhao (@rzhao271)
• Show extension contributed default values in the settings editor vscode#137943 Raymond Zhao (@rzhao271)
• 🏃 Explore improving discoverability of workbench layout options vscode#137633 SteVen Batten (@sbatten) Lydia Chung (@lychung7)
• Support synching of user tasks vscode#91011 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)

Web

• 💪 Explore translations in the web vscode#136331 TylerLeonhardt
• Improve how machine names are managed in the web for settings sync vscode#122652 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)

Code Editor

• 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 this comment Henning Dieterichs (@hediet) Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn)
• Improve auto closing brackets support for inline suggestions vscode#136452 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
• Polish highlight support for confusable Unicode characters query Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
• 🏃 Help migrate users off bracket pairs coloring extensions query Henning Dieterichs (@hediet) Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn)
• 💪 Investigate customizing mouse shortcuts vscode#3130 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)

Commenting

• 🔴 🏃 Assume ownership of the commenting support Alex Ross (@alexr00)
• 🏃 Provide a way to add a timestamp or detail to a comment vscode#139524 Alex Ross (@alexr00)
• Investigate improving resolved/unresolved comments vscode#127473 Alex Ross (@alexr00) Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn)

Notebook Editor

• Improve rendering jitter in notebooks vscode#126432 roblourens
• 🏃 Improve code structure and dependencies vscode#131808 roblourens Peng Lyu (@rebornix)
• Show execution progress while the executing cell is out of the viewport vscode#130611 roblourens Peng Lyu (@rebornix) @misolori
• Improve discoverability of cell folding vscode#132690 roblourens
• 💪 Explore indicating cell status for collapsed cells vscode#131200 roblourens
• Support searching across inputs and outputs vscode#140098 Peng Lyu (@rebornix)
• 🏃 Experiment with running notebook controllers extensions in dedicated extension host vscode/140374 Peng Lyu (@rebornix)
• 💪 Experiment with readonly view of monaco editor for faster scrolling vscode#129972 Peng Lyu (@rebornix)

Jupyter Notebooks

• Contributions to the vscode-jupyter extension vscode-jupyter#8605 Jim Griesmer (@greazer) team

Languages

• Improve discoverability of the language status pin/unpin interaction vscode#140241 David Dossett (@daviddossett) Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
• 🏃 Finalize inlay type hint support and API Johannes Rieken (@jrieken) Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
  • Inlay type hints - support cmd-click for go to type definition vscode#129528 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken), Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
  • Inlay type hints - support hover vscode#129528Johannes Rieken (@jrieken), Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)

AnyCode

See AnyCode.

• 🏃 Improve the support in large workspaces - guide users to download the tarball or download it automatically vscode-anycode#9 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken) Jackson Kearl (@JacksonKearl)
• Explore how AnyCode index can improve the Python/TS experience for vscode.dev (e.g. workspace symbol search) Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
• 🔴 💪 Explore bundling the extension with VS Code desktop Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)

LSP

• 🏃 Add notebook support for LSP Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)

Python

• Contributions to the python extension vscode-python#18214 Brett Cannon (@brettcannon) team

JavaScript/TypeScript

• 🏃 Explore automatic type acqusition on web typescript#45314 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• 🏃 Explore enabling TS Server plugins on web vscode#140455 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)

HTML

• Auto insert quotes after typing = vscode#18071 Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli)

Debug

• 🏃 Prototype extension debugging in a clean environment vscode#126737 Andre Weinand (@weinand)
• 💪 Propose UI for debugging highly concurrent languages vscode#116109 Andre Weinand (@weinand)
• Support viewing and editing of binary data vscode#140393 Connor Peet (@connor4312)
• 💪 Exclude breakpoint from specific caller vscode#127775 Connor Peet (@connor4312) Andre Weinand (@weinand)

DAP

• Grow the number of DAP maintainers microsoft/debug-adapter-protocol#240 Andre Weinand (@weinand) Connor Peet (@connor4312) roblourens
• 🏃 Explore passing standard input to debuggee microsoft/debug-adapter-protocol#216 Andre Weinand (@weinand)

Terminal

• Create terminal smoke test suite vscode#136064 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar) Megan Rogge (@meganrogge)
• 🏃 Shell integration vscode#133084 Megan Rogge (@meganrogge) Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• ✋ 💪 Ligatures in the terminal vscode#34103 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• Automatically reply to certain output vscode#133524 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• 💪 Explore cell-by-cell navigation for screen reader users vscode#69795 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• Explore navigating links in terminal with the keyboard vscode#95570 Megan Rogge (@meganrogge)

Source Control

• Polish the Sync button @misolori Ladislau Szomoru (@lszomoru)
• 🏃 Large change improvements vscode#135865 Ladislau Szomoru (@lszomoru)

API

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

Extensions

• Support to use the file watcher for arbitrary folders vscode#3025 Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
• Support that an extension can specify custom file icons for the file types it supports. vscode#14662 Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli)
• Preview extension support - support to migrate extension storage vscode#140088 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
• Preview extension support - reduce requests to the marketplace vscode#1139015 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
• 🏃 💪 Provide Webview UI toolkit usage guidelines vscode-webview-ui-toolkit#126 David Dossett (@daviddossett)

Extension Contributions

• Improve handling of large files or memory sizes in the Hex Editor vscode#126268 Connor Peet (@connor4312) Logan Ramos (@lramos15)
• Improvements to the GitHub Repositories extension (see query) Joyce Er (@joyceerhl)
• Improvements to the Remote extensions vscode-remote-release#6089 Alex Ross (@alexr00) roblourens tanhakabir Christof Marti (@chrmarti) Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli)
• Improvements to the GitHub PRI extension query Alex Ross (@alexr00)
• 🏃 Work with popular extension on adopting and improving their welcome pages vscode#118402 Harald Kirschner (@digitarald) Lydia Chung (@lychung7)
• eslint - adopt preview extension support Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
• 🏃 eslint - Investigate into ESLint support for notebooks

Engineering

• CLI tool (npx vscode-bisect) to bisect released insider builds (web, desktop) Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
• 🏃 Adopt vscode namespace for npm packages vscode#130301 Connor Peet (@connor4312) Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli) Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer) roblourens Andre Weinand (@weinand) Logan Ramos (@lramos15) SteVen Batten (@sbatten)
• 🏃 Make our smoke tests more reliable query Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero) Daniel Imms (@Tyriar) team
• Settings sync - debounce requests when a request is in progress vscode#91286 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
• 🏃 Investigate into adaptive debouncing of requests (outline, semantic tokens) to improve experience in higher latency setups vscode#140557 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken) Alexandru Dima (@alexdima)

Electron

• ✋ Refactor startup code to use electron's requestSingleInstanceLock API vscode#97626 Raymond Zhao (@rzhao271)
• Update to Electron 16 vscode#137241 Robo (@deepak1556) Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
• Windows occlusion tracker has incorrect behavior with vscode debugger vscode#123257 Robo (@deepak1556)
• Explore MS-Edge de-elevate-on-launch flag for vscode#122951 Robo (@deepak1556)
• 💪 Explore how to support direct helper process to workbench communication vscode#131798 Robo (@deepak1556)
• 🏃 Explore locale mismatch between main process and extension host vscode#85675 Raymond Zhao (@rzhao271)
• 🏃 Verifying linux dependencies and improving the process vscode#17142 Raymond Zhao (@rzhao271)

Node.js-free, sand-boxed renderer

Implement a node.js-free, sandboxed, context isolated renderer vscode#92164

• ✋ Enable contextIsolation for all windows vscode#128099 Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero) Raymond Zhao (@rzhao271) Robo (@deepak1556)
• Move v8-inspect-profiler out of renderer vscode#111211 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)

Deferred

• Adopt ghost text for previewing emmet expansions vscode#139247 Raymond Zhao (@rzhao271) Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
• Explore "Continue On" support in core vscode#141293 Joyce Er (@joyceerhl)
• Problems view - add support to sort by message contents vscode#98819 Ladislau Szomoru (@lszomoru)
• Explore how to improve the display defaults for the git repository provider vscode#135992 Ladislau Szomoru (@lszomoru) @misolori
• Make repository pickers available for other extensions vscode#141295 Joyce Er (@joyceerhl)
• Explore inside-out silent git installation (docker-like, using winget?) vscode#136408 Harald Kirschner (@digitarald) Ladislau Szomoru (@lszomoru)
• Explore how to support enabling/disabling a group of extensions for a workspace vscode#40239 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)