Iteration Plan for January 2022

[kieferrm]

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:

Mark	Description
🏃	work in progress
✋	blocked task
💪	stretch goal for this iteration
🔴	missing issue reference
🔵	more investigation required to remove uncertainty
⚫	under discussion within the team
⬛	a large work item, larger than one iteration

Accessibility

• Accessibility issues, see query @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 @lychung7 @isidorn

Workbench

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

Web

• 💪 Explore translations in the web vscode#136331 @TylerLeonhardt
• Improve how machine names are managed in the web for settings sync vscode#122652 @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 @hediet @isidorn
• Improve auto closing brackets support for inline suggestions vscode#136452 @hediet
• Polish highlight support for confusable Unicode characters query @hediet
• 🏃 Help migrate users off bracket pairs coloring extensions query @hediet @isidorn
• 💪 Investigate customizing mouse shortcuts vscode#3130 @hediet

Commenting

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

Notebook Editor

• Improve rendering jitter in notebooks vscode#126432 @roblourens
• 🏃 Improve code structure and dependencies vscode#131808 @roblourens @rebornix
• Show execution progress while the executing cell is out of the viewport vscode#130611 @roblourens @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 @rebornix
• 🏃 Experiment with running notebook controllers extensions in dedicated extension host vscode/140374 @rebornix
• 💪 Experiment with readonly view of monaco editor for faster scrolling vscode#129972 @rebornix

Jupyter Notebooks

• Contributions to the vscode-jupyter extension vscode-jupyter#8605 @greazer team

Languages

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

AnyCode

See AnyCode.

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

LSP

• 🏃 Add notebook support for LSP @dbaeumer

Python

• Contributions to the python extension vscode-python#18214 @brettcannon team

JavaScript/TypeScript

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

HTML

• Auto insert quotes after typing = vscode#18071 @aeschli

Debug

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

DAP

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

Terminal

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

Source Control

• Polish the Sync button @misolori @lszomoru
• 🏃 Large change improvements vscode#135865 @lszomoru

API

• API finalization: query @jrieken @mjbvz
• API proposals: query @jrieken @mjbvz
• 🏃 Explore API access to open editors including focused notebooks or custom editors vscode#15178 @lramos15

Extensions

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

Extension Contributions

• Improve handling of large files or memory sizes in the Hex Editor vscode#126268 @connor4312 @lramos15
• Improvements to the GitHub Repositories extension (see query) @joyceerhl
• Improvements to the Remote extensions vscode-remote-release#6089 @alexr00 @roblourens @tanhakabir @chrmarti @aeschli
• Improvements to the GitHub PRI extension query @alexr00
• 🏃 Work with popular extension on adopting and improving their welcome pages vscode#118402 @digitarald @lychung7
• eslint - adopt preview extension support @dbaeumer
• 🏃 eslint - Investigate into ESLint support for notebooks

Engineering

• CLI tool (npx vscode-bisect) to bisect released insider builds (web, desktop) @bpasero
• 🏃 Adopt vscode namespace for npm packages vscode#130301 @connor4312 @aeschli @dbaeumer @roblourens @weinand @lramos15 @sbatten
• 🏃 Make our smoke tests more reliable query @bpasero @Tyriar team
• Settings sync - debounce requests when a request is in progress vscode#91286 @sandy081
• 🏃 Investigate into adaptive debouncing of requests (outline, semantic tokens) to improve experience in higher latency setups vscode#140557 @jrieken @alexdima

Electron

• ✋ Refactor startup code to use electron's requestSingleInstanceLock API vscode#97626 @rzhao271
• Update to Electron 16 vscode#137241 @deepak1556 @bpasero
• Windows occlusion tracker has incorrect behavior with vscode debugger vscode#123257 @deepak1556
• Explore MS-Edge de-elevate-on-launch flag for vscode#122951 @deepak1556
• 💪 Explore how to support direct helper process to workbench communication vscode#131798 @deepak1556
• 🏃 Explore locale mismatch between main process and extension host vscode#85675 @rzhao271
• 🏃 Verifying linux dependencies and improving the process vscode#17142 @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 @bpasero @rzhao271 @deepak1556
• Move v8-inspect-profiler out of renderer vscode#111211 @jrieken

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Deferred

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

[markadrake]

@kieferrm & @JacksonKearl If you are indeed looking at issue vscode#6328 I'd greatly appreciate if you kept this in context during the deliberations and planning as it's a robust, flexible solution that's already in place with Visual Studio and open source development using the .net framework.

Thank you for mentioning this issue. As you may know we've eagerly awaited support for 5 years. Multiple people have contributed in various ways only to make no ground at all. Worst case scenario - would you please consider modularizing (?) the current file system explorer so that we can easily replace it or extend it with our own code? If we could register our own virtual file system provider to take over and make changes - I'm sure the community can fill in the gaps. Depends on how much your team wants to bite off! Thanks again!