Iteration Plan for April 2022 #146672

This plan captures our work in April. This is a 5-week iteration. We will ship in early May.

Endgame

• April 25, 2022: Endgame begins
• April 29, 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
• Improve light high contrast syntax highlighting vscode#146687 David Dossett (@daviddossett)

UX

• Explore 3-way merge editor vscode#146091 David Dossett (@daviddossett) Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn)
• 🏃 Explore variations for File > New File and File > New File... vscode#145046 Lydia Chung (@lychung7) Harald Kirschner (@digitarald) SteVen Batten (@sbatten)
• Make non-pinned language status items more prominent vscode#145950 David Dossett (@daviddossett) Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
• Use language status for formatter conflicts vscode#148053 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
• Update Figma toolkit with new components (Quick pick multi-select, Secondary side bar, etc.) vscode#146365 Lydia Chung (@lychung7)
• Explore how to better intergrate remote file system providers such as OneDrive or Google Drive vscode#146668 David Dossett (@daviddossett)
• 🏃 Explore a Share as... menu for creating vscode.dev links vscode#146309 Lydia Chung (@lychung7)
• 🏃 Explore improving the discoverability of filtering in tree views vscode#146806 @misolori João Moreno (@joaomoreno)
• 💪 Explore using the window titlebar to make the command palette more discoverable vscode#142867 Lydia Chung (@lychung7)
• 💪 Explore quick start from snippet/templates in empty files vscode#145929 Harald Kirschner (@digitarald)

Workbench

• 🏃 Allow user to see which settings have language overrides vscode#131707 Raymond Zhao (@rzhao271) Lydia Chung (@lychung7) Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
• Improve language filter discoverability vscode#145710 Raymond Zhao (@rzhao271) Lydia Chung (@lychung7)
• 🏃 Local history - flush history before shutdown when connected to a remote vscode#146554 Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
• Initial profile support for settings, extensions, activity bar, views, view container, status bar vscode#146729 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
  • Support to export a profile from the current workbench
  • Support to import a profile from a file/URL
  • Enable profile support in the storage service Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
• 🏃 Explore profile managements vscode#116740 Lydia Chung (@lychung7) Sana Ajani (@sana-ajani) Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
• 🏃 Problems view - support rendering as a table vscode#98819 Ladislau Szomoru (@lszomoru)
• 🏃 💪 Explore Continue On... support in core vscode#141293 Joyce Er (@joyceerhl)
• 🏃 💪 Adopt inline suggestions for previewing emmet expansions vscode#139247 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet) Raymond Zhao (@rzhao271)
• 💪 Explore a view header menu contribution point in the Explorer vscode#108271 Jackson Kearl (@JacksonKearl)
• 🏃 💪 Adopt Window Control Overlay API in electron 18 vscode#140694 SteVen Batten (@sbatten)

Web

• 🏃 Support workspace trust in the web vscode#145564 SteVen Batten (@sbatten)
• 🏃 Explore how a web extension can leverage the WebUSB API vscode#116761 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz) Alexandru Dima (@alexdima)

Code Editor

• Adopt bracket AST infrastructure for all bracket related features vscode#132536 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
• Context menu on the minimap to hide/show it vscode#148131Alexandru Dima (@alexdima)
• Add support for defining scopes without brackets in vscode-textmate vscode#144736 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
• 🏃 Explore the implementation of a merge editor vscode#146091 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet) Johannes Rieken (@jrieken) Alexandru Dima (@alexdima)
• 🏃 💪 Explore moving tokenization to a web worker vscode#147066 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
• 💪 Align editor find widget with the notebook find widget vscode#144851 Peng Lyu (@rebornix)
• 💪 Explore variable line heights in the editor vscode#147067 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
• 🏃 Improve presentation of inline suggestions with inprecise prefix matches vscode#147068 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet) @misolori

Commenting

• Improve cell level commenting in notebooks vscode#144850 Peng Lyu (@rebornix)
• Comments panel improvements vscode#127473 Alex Ross (@alexr00)
• Support to comment on ranges of lines vscode#146510 Alex Ross (@alexr00)

Notebook Editor

• 🏃 Explore support for proxy controllers vscode#146942 Peng Lyu (@rebornix) @misolori
• 🏃 Tune autoselection of controllers vscode#146339 Peng Lyu (@rebornix)
• Provide a url for cell locations like https://github.com/owner/repo/blob/master/notebook.ipynb#C2:L6-10 vscode#147183 Peng Lyu (@rebornix)
• Introduce settings to change line height and font size of the built-in text output renders vscode#123149 Aaron Munger (@amunger)
• 🏃 Improve code structure and dependencies vscode#131808 roblourens Peng Lyu (@rebornix)
• 🏃 Explore allowing extensions to manage cell context keys vscode#146686 roblourens
• 🏃 Explore improving files search results for notebooks vscode#95275 roblourens
• 🏃 Improve automatic language detection in ployglot notebooks vscode#147184 Jackson Kearl (@JacksonKearl) Peng Lyu (@rebornix)
• 💪 Allow resizing for the find widget in notebooks vscode#141516 Peng Lyu (@rebornix)
• 💪 Consolidate notebook setting names vscode#142986 Peng Lyu (@rebornix) roblourens

Jupyter Notebooks

• Contributions to the vscode-jupyter extension vscode-jupyter#9566 Jim Griesmer (@greazer) team

Languages

AnyCode

• 🔴 🏃 Investigate bundling the AnyCode extension for VS Code desktop Johannes Rieken (@jrieken) Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli) Alexandru Dima (@alexdima)
• Explore CSS language support focussing on cross-file results vscode-anycode#35 Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli)

LSP

• Introduce a new capability to allow clients and servers to agree on using UTF8 position encoding LSP microsoft/TypeScript#376 Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
• Prepare LSP v3.17 with support for inlay hints, type hierarchy, inline code, pull diagnostics support LSP query languageserver-node query Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
• (partly deferred) Add support to suspend a language server on idle LSP Node microsoft/TypeScript#97 Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)

Python

• Contributions to the python extension vscode-python#18850 Brett Cannon (@brettcannon) team

JavaScript/TypeScript

• Improve Typescript and Javascript out of the box experience vscode#144062 Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn) Greg Van Liew (@gregvanl)
• 🏃 Support TS server plugins on web vscode#140455 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• ✋ Explore automatic type acqusition on web typescript#45314 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)

Markdown

• 🏃 Investigate create file and image links using DnD vscode#142990 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)

Debug

• 🏃 Support showing diagnostic information in the breakpoints view vscode#142870 roblourens Andre Weinand (@weinand) Connor Peet (@connor4312)
• Support suspendDebuggee option on Disconnect UI vscode#134412 roblourens Andre Weinand (@weinand)
• Add option to automatically expand lazy getters vscode#144861 roblourens
• 🏃 Remove special treatment of extension debugging in VS Code (Prototype extension debugging in a clean environment) vscode#126737 Andre Weinand (@weinand)

DAP

• Investigate support for executing commands debug-adapter-protocol#231 Andre Weinand (@weinand) Connor Peet (@connor4312)

js-debug

• 💪 Investigate: Smart Step Into vscode#123879 Connor Peet (@connor4312) Andre Weinand (@weinand)
• ✋ Investigate supporting to attach to webviews running inside UWP applications vscode-js-debug#1209 Connor Peet (@connor4312)

Testing

• 💪 Provide support for Go to Test/Go to Test Subject vscode#126932 Connor Peet (@connor4312)

Terminal

• Polish shell integration query Megan Rogge (@meganrogge)
• Highlight all matches when searching in the terminal vscode#134790 Megan Rogge (@meganrogge)

Source Control

• Make repository pickers available for other extensions vscode#141295 Joyce Er (@joyceerhl)
• A full editor can be used as git commit message editor vscode#30562 Ladislau Szomoru (@lszomoru) Lydia Chung (@lychung7)
• Provide sorting options for repositories in the SCM view vscode#146359 Ladislau Szomoru (@lszomoru)

API

• API finalization: query Johannes Rieken (@jrieken) Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• API proposals: query Johannes Rieken (@jrieken) Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• Finalize API access to open editors including focused notebooks or custom editors vscode#15178 Logan Ramos (@lramos15)
• 🔴 Begin finalization of remaining proposed notebook API Matt Bierner (@mjbvz) Peng Lyu (@rebornix) roblourens

Extensions

• Add support to drag a file from the OS into a custom tree view vscode#146734 Alex Ross (@alexr00)
• Explore deprecated extensions vscode#4772 Lydia Chung (@lychung7) Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn) Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
• Unable to enable extension that depends on another disabled extension vscode#144294 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
• Align Extension's UI with its runtime status vscode#144444 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)

Extension Contributions

• Improvements to the GitHub Repositories extension (see query) Joyce Er (@joyceerhl)
• Improvements to the Remote extensions vscode-remote-release#6554 Alex Ross (@alexr00) tanhakabir Christof Marti (@chrmarti) Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli)
• Improvements to the GitHub PRI extension (see query) Alex Ross (@alexr00)
• Work with popular extension on adopting and improving their welcome pages vscode#118402 Harald Kirschner (@digitarald) Lydia Chung (@lychung7)
• Make the eslint extension more approachable for new contributors ESLint microsoft/TypeScript#1447 Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
• 💪 Investigate eslint notebook support in the web vscode-eslint#1366 Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)

Install

• 💪 Explore adopting to the Windows 11 explorer context menu vscode#127365 Robo (@deepak1556)

Engineering

• Review errors to identify which ones are actionable as error telemetry vscode#145043 Logan Ramos (@lramos15) team
• Decide on a subset of shared issue labels to simplify moving issues between repositories issue Brett Cannon (@brettcannon)
• Use playwright for our desktop smoke tests vscode#128479 Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero) João Moreno (@joaomoreno)
• Issue reporter template - include versions of built-in extensions that have been updated vscode#145529 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
• 🔴 Provide a translation build for our extensions; onboard the Python extension TylerLeonhardt Paula (@paulacamargo25)

Electron

• Explore how to support direct helper process to workbench communication vscode#131798 Robo (@deepak1556)
• 🏃 Improve dependency generation for Debian vscode#13089 Raymond Zhao (@rzhao271)
• 🏃 💪 Refactor startup code to use electron's requestSingleInstanceLock API vscode#97626 Raymond Zhao (@rzhao271)
• 💪 Fix cursor for draggable region elements on macOS vscode#140724 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)

Documentations

• Improve visibility of extension guidelines vscode-docs#5207 David Dossett (@daviddossett)
• 🏃 Draft Git Beginner's Docs vscode-docs#5033 Harald Kirschner (@digitarald) Burke Holland (@burkeholland)
• New Rust language topic vscode-docs#4531 Greg Van Liew (@gregvanl)

Deferred

• Explore translations in the web vscode#136331 TylerLeonhardt
• Support smooth scrolling in the terminal vscode#125950 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• Explore inside-out silent git installation (docker-like, using winget?) vscode#136408 Harald Kirschner (@digitarald) Ladislau Szomoru (@lszomoru)
• Explore cell-by-cell navigation for screen reader users vscode#69795 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• Propose UI for debugging highly concurrent languages vscode#116109 Andre Weinand (@weinand)
• Keyboard shortcut PDF accessibility vscode-docs#4265 Greg Van Liew (@gregvanl)