Iteration Plan for January 2023 #170413

This plan captures our work in January. This is a 4-week iteration. We will ship in early February. The release will also contain minor improvements and bug fixes that happened during our December Housekeeping Iteration.

Endgame

• January 23, 2023: Endgame begins
• January 27, 2023: 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 Megan Rogge (@meganrogge) Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn) team
• Support arrow key navigation in Setting indicators vscode#167470 Raymond Zhao (@rzhao271)

UX

• Explore how to better express view display styles (tree versus list) vscode#162595 David Dossett (@daviddossett)
• 🏃 Explore updated built-in themes vscode#164924 David Dossett (@daviddossett)
• 🏃 Explore UI density modes vscode#115641 David Dossett (@daviddossett)
• 🏃 Explore an integrated way to introduce unique vscode.dev behaviors vscode#166895 David Dossett (@daviddossett) Joyce Er (@joyceerhl)
• 🏃 Introduce an experimental modal walkthrough for web experiences vscode#171190 Bhavya U (@bhavyaus) Joyce Er (@joyceerhl)
• 🏃 Explore lightweight toast UI vscode#166891 David Dossett (@daviddossett) Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)

Workbench

• Ship profiles vscode#116740 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
• Improve performance of the Settings Editor query Raymond Zhao (@rzhao271)
• Allow glob patterns for native file watcher excludes vscode#137872 Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
• Add a confirmation to open large files behind a setting vscode#170090 Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
• Improve first time experience for command palette vscode#169091 TylerLeonhardt Harald Kirschner (@digitarald)
• Improve custom titlebar layout performance vscode#169866 SteVen Batten (@sbatten)
• Support keyboard-based trusting of a workspace vscode#170310 SteVen Batten (@sbatten)
• Improvements to Keyboard Shortcuts Editor vscode#151599 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
  • Specify which extension provides a specific keyboard shortcut vscode#121673 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
  • Enhance filtering Keyboard Shortcuts with chords vscode#80181 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
  • Keybinding UI editor should support context key suggestions vscode#116855 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)

Continue-On

• 🏃 Surface Continue-On in more places vscode#165406 Joyce Er (@joyceerhl)
• Surface transitions in Remote Indicator vscode#162259 Joyce Er (@joyceerhl)
• Add additional Continue-On transitions vscode#162118 Joyce Er (@joyceerhl)
• Auto-publish unpublished branch state when invoking Continue Working On on desktop vscode#160237 Joyce Er (@joyceerhl)
• Add a way to discover extensions which contribute Continue On options vscode#165105 Joyce Er (@joyceerhl)

WebAssembly Runtime Support

• 🏃 💪 Explore provide a web-shell shell-engine-js#1 Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer) Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)

Code Editor

• Suggest Mode for auto complete #vscode/139825 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
• Partial suggestion acceptance - discoverability/keybinding vscode#140708 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)

Notebook Editor

• Drop NotebookContentProvider usage in the Interactive Window vscode#165252 Aaron Munger (@amunger) Peng Lyu (@rebornix)
• Remove kernel preloads globals API vscode#163513 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz) Don Jayamanne (@DonJayamanne)
• 🏃 Enable scrollable notebook outputs vscode-jupyter#7096 Aaron Munger (@amunger)
• Improve updating outputs when re-running a cell vscode#132143 Peng Lyu (@rebornix) roblourens
• 🏃 Explore notebook specific list view and layout improvements vscode#170881 Peng Lyu (@rebornix) roblourens
• 🏃 Explore a built-in variables viewer vscode#165445 roblourens
• 🏃 Allow searching dirty changes in open notebook editors in global search vscode#95275 Andrea Mah (@andreamah)
• 🏃 Allow searching rich content in notebooks in global search vscode#164926 Andrea Mah (@andreamah)
• 🏃 Explore how to stop hanging network request from preventing the opening of notebooks vscode#166860 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• 🏃 Explore localization support for notebook renderers vscode#170919 TylerLeonhardt Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• 🏃 Explore UX to surface common notebook renderer performance issues vscode#170309 SteVen Batten (@sbatten) Peng Lyu (@rebornix)

Jupyter Notebooks

• Contributions to the vscode-jupyter extension vscode-jupyter#12474 team

Languages

Python

• Contributions to the python extension vscode-python#20450 Brett Cannon (@brettcannon) team

Python WebAssembly Runtime Support

• 💪 Explore support for statically linking and loading native modules Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer) Brett Cannon (@brettcannon)
• Strategy for testing packages against CPython WASI - work across CPython and VS Code; python doc issue, pytest issue wasm-wasi issue; Brett Cannon (@brettcannon) Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
• 🏃 How do users find packages that work in CPython WASI? issue; Brett Cannon (@brettcannon)
• 💪 Explore support for notebooks Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)

JavaScript/TypeScript

• 🏃 Project-wide IntelliSense on the web vscode#170920 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)

Debug Adapter Protocol

• 🏃 Memory reuse debug-adapter-protocol#238 Connor Peet (@connor4312) roblourens
• Clarify combination of log point and conditional breakpoint debug-adapter-protocol#363 roblourens

Testing

• Auto run tests vscode#134941 Connor Peet (@connor4312)

Terminal

• 🏃 Support external terminals as a default for WSL sessions vscode#167865 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• Provide Quick Fixes for new pwsh feedback provider apis vscode#170484 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• Fix env var collection on macOS vscode#99878 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• 🏃 Continue pwsh autocomplete vscode#154662 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• Explore UX and API for a proper Co-pilot integration vscode#170485 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)

Tasks

• Address paper cuts vscode#167061 Megan Rogge (@meganrogge)

Source Control

• 🏃 Git: Performance work query Ladislau Szomoru (@lszomoru)
• 🏃 Git: Prompt before opening repos outside workspace vscode#169256 Ladislau Szomoru (@lszomoru)

API

• 💪 Allow FileSystemProviders to set the read-only file message vscode#166971 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
• 🏃 Support QuickDiffProvider without SourceControl registration vscode#169012 Alex Ross (@alexr00)
• Finalize Telemetry API for extension authors vscode#160090 Logan Ramos (@lramos15) Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
• API finalization: query Johannes Rieken (@jrieken) Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• API proposals: query Johannes Rieken (@jrieken) Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)

Extensions

• Launch Extension Repository Signing to Stable vscode#169550 Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn) Damon Tivel (@dtivel) Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
• Lint redundant explicitly listed activation events in package.json vscode#170984 Joyce Er (@joyceerhl)
• Support pinning extension version when installed from CLI vscode#63903 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
• Supporting syncing specific extension installed version vscode#157079 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
• Allow translations for language servers vscode#168594 TylerLeonhardt

Extension Contributions

• Improvements to the Remote extensions vscode-remote-release#7783 Eleanor Boyd (@eleanorjboyd) Christof Marti (@chrmarti) Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli)
• Improvements to the GitHub Repositories extension query Joyce Er (@joyceerhl) Bhavya U (@bhavyaus)
• Live Preview: Add option to specify which external browser vscode-livepreview#69 Andrea Mah (@andreamah)
• Live Preview: Add option to specify the root path of the server vscode-livepreview#155 Andrea Mah (@andreamah)
• 🏃 Fix preview of forwarded ports in Codespaces for Simple Browser and Live Preview vscode-livepreview#111 Andrea Mah (@andreamah) Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• Support GitHub's suggested changes vscode-pull-request-github#603 Alex Ross (@alexr00)
• Support setting labels on PRs at creation time vscode-pull-request-github#2436 Alex Ross (@alexr00)
• 🏃 Support permalink rendering vscode-pull-request-github#4229 Alex Ross (@alexr00)
• Move js-debug to l10n API vscode#164438 Connor Peet (@connor4312) TylerLeonhardt

Performance

• Investigate moving away from the styler pattern vscode#165478 Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli)
• Why is the npm extension using workspaceContains:package.json? vscode#163480 Joyce Er (@joyceerhl)
• 🏃 Explore setTimeout for onStartupFinished extensions vscode#164593 Joyce Er (@joyceerhl)
• 🏃 💪 Explore delaying doing * activation extensions until initial activation events are finished vscode#171135 Joyce Er (@joyceerhl)
• Investigate slow stacks reported to telemetry & ramp up the experiment vscode#170954 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
• Add detailed telemetry for RPC payloads with large serialization/deserialization times vscode#170955 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken) Alexandru Dima (@alexdima)
• 🏃 VSCode Perf Tool - Tool to measure performance of VSCode vscode-perf#1 Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero) Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
• ⬛ PGO for VSCode Desktop vscode#170931 Robo (@deepak1556)

Engineering

• 🏃 Explore migrating from AMD to ESM vscode#160416 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken) Alexandru Dima (@alexdima)
• 🏃 Sandboxing: Investigate increased extension host crash rate in stable Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero) Robo (@deepak1556) Harald Kirschner (@digitarald)
• Investigate insiders startup regression vscode#168639 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken) Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero) Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
• Sandbox: enable utility process by default in stable Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)

Electron

• Investigate Electron 22 upgrade vscode#166265 Robo (@deepak1556)
• Drop support for macOS 10.11 vscode#123374 Robo (@deepak1556)
• Screen reader not detected on macOS vscode#167627 Robo (@deepak1556)
• Native crash in macOS smoke tests vscode#168415 Robo (@deepak1556)
• Crash when closing active macOS native tab vscode#167936 Robo (@deepak1556)
• Fix locale and language-dependent code in the product vscode#169114 Raymond Zhao (@rzhao271) TylerLeonhardt

Documentation

• 🏃 Update Azure Content, ToC vscode-docs#5614 Greg Van Liew (@gregvanl) Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn)
• Restructure and refresh dev containers docs within new Dev Containers node vscode-docs#5737 Brigit Murtaugh (@bamurtaugh) Greg Van Liew (@gregvanl)

Deferred

• Support an RTL layout of the titlebar based on WCO vscode#164397 SteVen Batten (@sbatten)
• Explore improvements to the extensions list vscode#151599 esonnino Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
• Update source control documentation to include the merge editor vscode-docs#5618 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet) Greg Van Liew (@gregvanl)
• Add an Git introductory page vscode-docs#5677 Harald Kirschner (@digitarald)
• Investigate large screen update under remote desktop vscode#164503 Robo (@deepak1556)
• Improving the developer experience for the CLI within the vscode repo vscode#171515 Connor Peet (@connor4312) Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli)
• Sandboxing: Adopt utility process for shared process, file watchers and terminal host vscode#154050 Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero) Robo (@deepak1556) Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• Git: Support untracked folders vscode#169253 Ladislau Szomoru (@lszomoru)
• Related code vscode#126932 Connor Peet (@connor4312)
• Move background tokenization to a web worker vscode#147066 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
• Support coloring a subset of the matched brackets vscode#170497 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
• Publish new Monaco Editor website with improved playground monaco-editor#3483 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
• Publish new Monaco Editor version CHANGELOG.md Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
• Evaluate iPad support vscode#170498 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
• Provide built-in Profiles vscode#166359 Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn) Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
• 🔴 🏃 Explore surfacing the remote experiences on the welcome page Bhavya U (@bhavyaus)
• Improve introduction to Command Palette in get started walkthrough vscode#166735 esonnino Bhavya U (@bhavyaus)
• Improvements to Getting Started experience query Bhavya U (@bhavyaus)
• Convert LSIF to the new npm publish pipeline #3191 Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
• Explore possibility of unifying explorer selection in focus behind a setting Logan Ramos (@lramos15)
• 🏃 White flashing when opening a new window vscode#132339 Raymond Zhao (@rzhao271) Robo (@deepak1556)
• 💪 Explore ways to improve interacting with root files and folders in a crowded explorer view Logan Ramos (@lramos15) vscode#151630\
• 💪 Stabilize DocumentPasteEditProvider API to support pasting images vscode#30066 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• SCM: Notification API vscode#161200 Ladislau Szomoru (@lszomoru)
• Support profiles in remote workspaces vscode#165247 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
• Finalize or remove the notebookControllerKind API Proposal vscode#168535 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz) Peng Lyu (@rebornix)