Iteration Plan for September 2022 #160046

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

Endgame

• September 26, 2022: Endgame begins
• September 30, 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
• 🏃 Workbench: Improve accessibility of Setting indicators vscode#159088 Raymond Zhao (@rzhao271)

Workbench

• Setting Profiles
  • 🏃 Improvements to the settings profile experience vscode#155067 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081) David Dossett (@daviddossett) Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn)
  • 🏃 Support Syncing Settings Profiles vscode#154243 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar) Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081) Ladislau Szomoru (@lszomoru)
• Support hiding/showing toolbar items using right-click vscode#150916 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
• Provide Continue On... support in core vscode#160047 Joyce Er (@joyceerhl)
• Define default snippets for languages (empty file getting started) vscode#145929 Harald Kirschner (@digitarald)
• Add configurations for search view decorations vscode#157462 Andrea Mah (@andreamah)
• Explore showing search results as a tree view vscode#20224 Andrea Mah (@andreamah) roblourens
• 🏃 Align trust and policy UX in settings editor with other indicators vscode#157564 Raymond Zhao (@rzhao271) Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
• Unify toggle UX in input fields throughout the workbench vscode#156179 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• Allow disabling incremental naming on paste for the explorer vscode#84857 Logan Ramos (@lramos15)
• Explore syncing open recent and recent on getting started vscode#60821 Logan Ramos (@lramos15)
• Share and Copy As consolidation vscode#157722 Alex Ross (@alexr00)

Web

• 🏃 Continue translations in the web vscode#82595 TylerLeonhardt

WebAssembly Runtime Support

• Productize @vscode/sync-* npm packages vscode-wasm#3 Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
• Implement cancellation strategy for sync npm packages vscode#148967 Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)

Code Editor

• Support sticky scroll for languages without outline support vscode#157165 Aiday Marlen Kyzy (@aiday-mar) Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
• 🏃 Explore using TreeSitter for generating TM scopes for TypeScript vscode#161256 Aiday Marlen Kyzy (@aiday-mar) Johannes Rieken (@jrieken) Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli)
• 💪 Modernize the Monaco editor playground monaco-editor#3247 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
• Support snippets in workspace edits vscode#145374 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)

Merge Editor

• 🏃 Explore switching the merge editor to the new diff algorithm vscode#160801 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
• Add possibility to see and diff against base vscode#155277 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
• 💪 Reduce conflict in case both sides have common lines in their diffs vscode#157496 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
• Explore a toggle to hide non conflicting areas (streamline merge editor for git conflict resolution) Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
• 3-way merge editor customer development vscode#159561 Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn) Steven Clarke (@stevencl)

Notebook Editor

• 🏃 Help users diagnose notebook rendering perf issues vscode#154873 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• Support HTML headers in the notebook outline vscode#134853 Peng Lyu (@rebornix)
• Show changes in the overview ruler of the notebook diff editor vscode#146224 Peng Lyu (@rebornix)
• 💪 Explore improving files search results for notebooks vscode#95275 Andrea Mah (@andreamah)

Jupyter Notebooks

• Unify Stop/Interrupt button across core and Jupyter vscode#128245 vscode-jupyter#7661 Peng Lyu (@rebornix)
• Contributions to the vscode-jupyter extension vscode-jupyter#11286 team

Custom Views

• Allow tree items to have optional checkboxes vscode#116141 Benjamin Christopher Simmonds (@benibenj)

Languages

Python

• Contributions to the python extension vscode-python#19779 Brett Cannon (@brettcannon) team

Python WebAssembly Runtime Support

• Improve performance of python environments hosted on GitHub vscode-wasm#5Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer) Joyce Er (@joyceerhl)
• Investigate installing python packages with native code into a Python environment hosted on GitHub Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer) Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli)
• Make GitHub hosted python environments available in vscode.dev vscode-wasm#6 Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer) Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli)

JavaScript/TypeScript

• 🏃 Explore automatic type acquisition on web typescript#45314 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• ✋ Support TS project-wide intellisense on web typescript#47600 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)

Markdown

• 💪 Stabilize DocumentPasteEditProvider API to support pasting images vscode#30066 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)

JSON

• 🏃 Sort JSON properties alphabetically vscode#155312 Aiday Marlen Kyzy (@aiday-mar) Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli)

CSS

• Add support for new CSS syntax (layer, Property) vscode#147354 vscode#157267 Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli)

Debug

• Extension debugging in a clean environment vscode#126737 Andre Weinand (@weinand)

DAP

• Starting new debug session from within a debug adapter debug-adapter-protocol#79 Andre Weinand (@weinand) roblourens Connor Peet (@connor4312)

Terminal

• Support hyperlink ansi escapes in the integrated terminal vscode#39278 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• Support custom terminal markers vscode#157026 Megan Rogge (@meganrogge) Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• Investigate flaky terminal/tasks smoke tests vscode#159510 Megan Rogge (@meganrogge)
• 💪 Investigate contextual commands vscode#151937 Megan Rogge (@meganrogge)

Source Control

• Support git with private key password vscode#13680 Ladislau Szomoru (@lszomoru)
• Git: Support nested git repositories vscode#37947 Ladislau Szomoru (@lszomoru)
• 🏃 Git - add action to pull branch before switching vscode#159165 Ladislau Szomoru (@lszomoru)

Extensions

• Explore using SharedArrayBuffer in the web worker extension host on desktop vscode#116715 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
• Sort extensions by extension update date vscode#53405 Benjamin Christopher Simmonds (@benibenj) Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
• 🏃 Explore Extensions Management notification center vscode#159889 Benjamin Christopher Simmonds (@benibenj) Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)

API

• API finalization: query Johannes Rieken (@jrieken) Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• API proposals: query Johannes Rieken (@jrieken) Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• 🏃 Continue finalization of remaining proposed notebook API vscode#149861 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz) Peng Lyu (@rebornix) roblourens
• 🏃 Work with LiveShare on content provider migration vscode#147248 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• Support context menu actions in webviews vscode#54285 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• vscode.open on document link doesn't accept additional arguments vscode#154993 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• 🏃 Improve Extensions logging vscode#159892 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)

Extension Contributions

• Improvements to the Remote extensions vscode-remote-release#7160 Eleanor Boyd (@eleanorjboyd) Christof Marti (@chrmarti) Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli)
• GitHub Repositories: query Joyce Er (@joyceerhl)
• Improvements to the Live Preview extension: query Andrea Mah (@andreamah) roblourens
• ✋ Fix preview of forwarded ports in Codespaces for Simple Browser and Live Preview vscode-livepreview#111 Andrea Mah (@andreamah) Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• Try to link PRs to issues mentioned in the PR title vscode-pull-request-github#3739 Alex Ross (@alexr00)
• 🏃 GHPR: Adopt localization pipeline vscode-pull-request-github#3913 Alex Ross (@alexr00)

Install / Update

• Integrate with the Windows 11 explorer context menu vscode#127365 Robo (@deepak1556)

Engineering

• Explore using swc for transpilation vscode#150025 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
• 💪 Explore migrating from AMD to ESM vscode#160416 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
• Sandboxing: Utility process does not support stdout and stderr vscode#155987 Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero) Robo (@deepak1556)
• 🏃 Investigate startup performance regression and improvements vscode@156864 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken) Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero) Alex Ross (@alexr00) Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081) <@team>
• 💪 Parcel: Support simple glob patterns for ignore rules watcher#64 Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
• ✋ Linux: authentication fails on Ubuntu 22.04 vscode#159124 TylerLeonhardt Robo (@deepak1556)

Electron

• 🏃 White flashing when opening a new window vscode#132339 Raymond Zhao (@rzhao271) Robo (@deepak1556)
• Improve screen reader detection on macOS vscode#158008 Robo (@deepak1556)
• Contribute the utility process and APIs to Electron vscode#154007 Robo (@deepak1556)
• Seg fault in Linux integration tests (electron) vscode#153181 Robo (@deepak1556)
• 💪 Main Request service is throwing errors for valid requests vscode#155204 Robo (@deepak1556)
• WCO restore icon is off-center of the button when window is maximized electron#35038 Raymond Zhao (@rzhao271)
• WCO separator colour incorrect in v20 electron#35312 Raymond Zhao (@rzhao271)
• WCO incorrect behavior in tablet mode vscode#159851 Raymond Zhao (@rzhao271) Robo (@deepak1556)
• 🏃 WCO misaligned when OS is configured to RTL vscode#159813 Raymond Zhao (@rzhao271) Robo (@deepak1556)

Documentation

• 🏃 Review and update Configure C++ Debugging topic vscode-docs#5518 Greg Van Liew (@gregvanl)
• Investigate pulling out advanced, reference, and troubleshooting content from Terminal Basics vscode-docs#4809 Greg Van Liew (@gregvanl) Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• 🏃 Update Azure Content, ToC vscode-docs#5614 Greg Van Liew (@gregvanl) Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn)

Deferred

• Explore testing strategies for @vscode/wasm-wasi vscode-wasm#4 Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
• Provide a web-shell with pluggable parser and multi-line editing capabilities shell-engine-js#1 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• Explore accepting parts of an inline completion proposal vscode#155473 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
• Publish a new version of the Monaco editor monaco-editor Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
• Finalize profiles import/export feature vscode#159891 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081) Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
• Explain how to use the merge editor vscode-docs#5618 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet) Greg Van Liew (@gregvanl)
• WCO black border under buttons vscode#150778 Raymond Zhao (@rzhao271)
• Sandboxing: Explore adopting utility process for shared process vscode#154050 Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero) Robo (@deepak1556)
• Investigate using chardet instead of jschardet vscode#159896 Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
• Support actions on quick pick categories vscode#149057 TylerLeonhardt David Dossett (@daviddossett)
• Explore possibility of unifying explorer selection in focus behind a setting Logan Ramos (@lramos15)
• ✋ Explore creating a debug config for a terminal command vscode#150460 Connor Peet (@connor4312)
• ✋ Reload extension host on server side when connected from web and locale is changed vscode#151000 TylerLeonhardt
• Align editor find widget with the notebook find widget vscode#144851 Peng Lyu (@rebornix)
• Support shipping and automatic activation of bash and zsh completions on macOS when shell integration is enabled vscode#155733 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar) Megan Rogge (@meganrogge)
• Automatically create debug config with a "dry run" vscode-js-debug#1214 Connor Peet (@connor4312)
• Explore improvements to Extensions view #151599 @misolori