Iteration Plan for January 2024 #201255

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

Endgame

• January 23, 2024: Endgame begins
• January 26, 2024: 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

• Consider alert instead of audio cue for components vscode#195282 Megan Rogge (@meganrogge)
• Accessibility issues, see query Megan Rogge (@meganrogge) team
• GHPRI Accessibility issues, see query Alex Ross (@alexr00)

Workbench

• Explore the ability to hide problem markers throughout the workbench vscode#166797 Justin Chen (@justschen)
• Aux window: Support to restore aux windows and editors vscode#195887 Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
• Tree Sticky Scroll Support Focus & Navigation vscode#199373 Benjamin Christopher Simmonds (@benibenj)
• Tree Sticky Scroll: Support node compression vscode#199539 Benjamin Christopher Simmonds (@benibenj)
• Support title bar within native title bar vscode#172464 Benjamin Christopher Simmonds (@benibenj)
• Support drag and drop between items in the list vscode#200745 Benjamin Christopher Simmonds (@benibenj)
• 🏃 Localize inno-updater vscode#168894 Benjamin Christopher Simmonds (@benibenj)
• Polish Multi-File Diff Editor vscode#201718 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
• Windows: Investigate changes to API behavior for Wi-Fi access and location vscode#196746 Robo (@deepak1556)

Code Editor

• 🏃 Support dynamic line heights using decorations vscode#194609 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet) Alexandru Dima (@alexdima)
• Release Monaco Editor https://github.com/microsoft/monaco-editor/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#0450 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
• Slowly roll out editor sticky scroll on by default vscode#202655 Aiday Marlen Kyzy (@aiday-mar)
• Allow to customize the font family for inline completions vscode#201307 Aiday Marlen Kyzy (@aiday-mar) Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
• 🏃 Add support for multicursor for inline completions vscode#201308 Aiday Marlen Kyzy (@aiday-mar) Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
• 🏃 Allow code actions to highlight their related code ranges vscode#199608 Justin Chen (@justschen)

Search

• Improve the ergonomics between Quick Search and the Search view vscode#201735 Andrea Mah (@andreamah)
• Show matches in a preview editor when navigating quick search results vscode#191259 Andrea Mah (@andreamah)

Notebook Editor

• Notebook sticky scroll refinement (font-family/icon/folding) vscode#188974 Michael Lively (@Yoyokrazy)
• 🏃 Built-in variable view UI vscode#165445 Aaron Munger (@amunger)
• Support notebook editor in floating window vscode#195715 Peng Lyu (@rebornix)

Jupyter Notebooks

• Finalize/publish Jupyter Kernel API (merge into api.d.ts and update npm package) vscode-jupyter#14669 Don Jayamanne (@DonJayamanne)
• Polish for auto complete from kernel vscode-jupyter#13596 Don Jayamanne (@DonJayamanne)
  • Fix duplicated suggestions for Python and avoid launching another language server vscode-jupyter#13596
  • Consolidate settings for completion trigger characters (jupyter.kernelCompletions.*) vscode-jupyter#13596
• Explore Kernel Picker experience in Dev Containers vscode-jupyter#14673 Don Jayamanne (@DonJayamanne) Peng Lyu (@rebornix)
• 💪 Explore file explorer/file syncing for Remote Jupyter Server vscode-jupyter#1366 Don Jayamanne (@DonJayamanne) Peng Lyu (@rebornix)
• 🏃 Implement jupyter variable provider vscode-jupyter#14821 Aaron Munger (@amunger)

WebAssembly Support

• Research options for shared memory and object management between WASI threads that are mapped to workers vscode-wasm#153 Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)

Languages

Python

• Contributions to the Python extension, see plan Brett Cannon (@brettcannon) team

Language Server Protocol

• LSP support to 3rd-parties vscode-python#21964 Karthik Nadig (@karthiknadig)

TypeScript

• 🏃 Change the TS language server to not always offer "Move to file..." code actions vscode#201310 Aiday Marlen Kyzy (@aiday-mar)
• 🏃 Fix code actions not being available when error is introduced vscode#117812 Justin Chen (@justschen)
• 🏃 Automatic type acquisition on the web vscode#172887 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• ✋ Support bringing along imports with copy paste typescript#50187 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)

Source Control

• 🏃 Support contextual actions in SCM Incoming/Outgoing nodes vscode#199318 Ladislau Szomoru (@lszomoru)

Testing

• Design test coverage UX/API vscode#123713 Connor Peet (@connor4312)

Debug

• Explore debug visualization extension point vscode#197287 Connor Peet (@connor4312)
• Add support for breakpoint dependencies vscode#152428 Connor Peet (@connor4312)

Debug Adapter Protocol

• 🏃 Support additional data fields for breakpoint debug-adapter-protocol#445 Connor Peet (@connor4312)

API

• API proposals: query Johannes Rieken (@jrieken) Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• API finalization: query Johannes Rieken (@jrieken) Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• 🏃 Explore improvements to the proposed IssueReporter API vscode#196863 Justin Chen (@justschen)

Extensions

• Investigate high extension install error rate vscode#190233 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)

Extension Contributions

• Improvements to the Remote extensions, see plan roblourens Christof Marti (@chrmarti) Connor Peet (@connor4312) Joyce Er (@joyceerhl)
• GHPRI: Allow users to resolve merge conflicts from PR view vscode-pull-request-github#1562 Alex Ross (@alexr00)
• GHPRI: Provide group by setting for queries vscode-pull-request-github#1881 Alex Ross (@alexr00)
• Ship new ESLint release version Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)

Engineering

• Configure c++ toolchain in extension build steps on Linux pipeline vscode-engineering#456 Robo (@deepak1556)
• Integrate vscode-zeromq with pipeline templates from vscode-engineering zeromq-prebuilt#26 Robo (@deepak1556) Don Jayamanne (@DonJayamanne)

Electron

• Wire Electron.net API into the utility process vscode#192899 Robo (@deepak1556)
• 🏃 WCO on Windows leaves no room for resizing horizontally/diagonally vscode#185249 Raymond Zhao (@rzhao271)

Deferred

• Support picking tab vs spaces in notebook cell editor vscode#108675 Michael Lively (@Yoyokrazy)
• Support module import/usage analysis in Run Dependent Cells vscode-jupyter#14674 Peng Lyu (@rebornix) w/ Pylance team
• 💪 Explore quick fixes attached to rows in sticky scroll vscode#198116Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• 🏃 Investigate compile C# code in the browser to IL using dotnet.wasm vscode-wasm#112 Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
• 🏃 Support WASI preview2 vscode-wasm#52 Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
• Polish unfocused dimming feature vscode#191775 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• Fix custom ZMQ build for Linux ARM32/ARM64 vscode-jupyter#14070 Don Jayamanne (@DonJayamanne)
• Adopt canonical URI Provider API for workspace trust vscode#180582 SteVen Batten (@sbatten)
• 🏃 Explore support for multiple GitHub accounts vscode#127967 TylerLeonhardt
• 🏃 Add smart pasting of markdown URLs vscode#186289 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• 🏃 Add drop/paste for css vscode#189875 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• Support keyboard navigation between groups in quick picks vscode#149046 TylerLeonhardt
• 🏃 Improve Profiles Management UX vscode#192387 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081) Hylke Bons (@hbons)