Iteration Plan for March 2021

[kieferrm]

This plan captures our work in March. This is a 4-week iteration. We will ship in early April end of March 😃.

Endgame

• March 22, 2021: Endgame begins
• March 26, 2021: 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
• 🏃 Assess notebook accessibility VS Code native notebook accessibility improvement #111255 @rebornix @isidorn @roblourens
• Investigate in accessibility support for multiple cursors Announce when new cursor is added #109918 @isidorn

Workbench

• 🏃 Trusted Workspaces General Discussion on Workspace Trust Feature #106488 @lszomoru @sbatten
  • 🏃 Finalize API
  • 🏃 Provide documentation for extension authors on adoption and testing
  • 🏃 Begin engagement with extension authors
• Show tab decorations by default Enable tab decorations by default #118103 @jrieken
• Provide "Copy As..." as a submenu Provide platform "Copy As..." submenu #118208 @joaomoreno
• 🏃 Improve the welcome pages Explore improvements to welcome pages #106715 @JacksonKearl @misolori @digitarald
  • Explore consolidation of welcome and getting started @misolori @JacksonKearl @digitarald
  • 💪 Explore integration of release notes and extension changelogs @JacksonKearl
  • 🏃 Continue user testing on new welcome pages @digitarald
  • 🏃 More context for primary section [Getting Started] Make first page more welcoming #116976 @digitarald
  • 🏃 Update content: Resized images for dark and light theme Cap size of the getting started images #115325 Getting started images for light theme would look better and be more helpful #115327 @digitarald
  • 🏃 Add content for experienced users [Getting Started] Add more content for experienced users #118281 @digitarald
  • 🏃 Explore Extension content contributions Convert extension Welcome pages to Getting Started walkthroughs #118402 @digitarald
• Improve handling of untitled files: investigate into automatic language classification Automatic language classification for Untitled files #118455 @isidorn

UX

• Update app icon for macOS Big Sur Icon change for macOS Big Sur #101014 @misolori
• 💪 Continue exploration of profiles Explore user profiles #116740 @misolori
• 💪 Sketch out a classification for notifications and usage guidance for each Notification usage guidelines #119463 @misolori @isidorn

Monaco Editor

• Publish a new version of the Monaco editor @alexdima

Notebook Editor

• 🏃 Review Notebook API 📢 Notebook API announcements #93265 @jrieken @rebornix @roblourens
• 🏃 Enable extensible markdown rendering for notebooks Explore customizing the markdown renderer for notebooks #106701 @mjbvz @rebornix
• 🏃 Reduce notebook papercut issues Feedback from Jupyter notebook extension early adopters #113245 @rebornix @jrieken @roblourens
• Allow cell folding on double-click Improve discoverability of cell folding  #113248 @roblourens
• Support cell multi-select Support multi cell selection in notebook #114156 @rebornix
• Support filters in the notebook diff editor @rebornix Notebook Diff: options to filter outputs and metadata #118933
• Clarify relationship between notebook and workspace trust Explore notebook trust + workspace trust #118584 @roblourens
• Improve the List widget to better support notebook use cases List: Fix shift click to expand selection #118044 List: Support a different navigation mode where focus and selection move together #118045 @joaomoreno

Tasks

• Improve the '"applyTo": "closedDocuments' support in the problem matcher Consider listening for document close for tasks that have a problem matcher that applies only to closed documents #116760 @alexr00
• Do not show the NPM Scripts explorer when the project doesn't have a package.json Add a when clause to the contributed explorer view such that it is only activated when the workspace has a package.json file #117950 @alexr00

Languages

CSS

• Investigate into an improved CSS grammar Update CSS Language Syntax #115480 @alexr00

LSP /LSIF

• 🏃 LSP - Add support for a pull model for diagnostics @dbaeumer
• 🏃 LSIF - Add support for search scopes @dbaeumer

JavaScript/TypeScript

• Adopt TS 4.2.x recovery build @mjbvz
• Validate the new semantic highlighter for TS Validate the new semantic highlighter for TS  #119139 @aeschli

Debug

• Inline break point editing should support to edit both the hit count and the expression Breakpoint inline edit button should be a submenu #115111 @isidorn
• Surface DataBreakpoint access types in the UI Support for editing 'accessType' property of data breakpoints #113922 @isidorn @weinand
• ✋ Ability to drag and drop breakpoints Ability to drag and drop breakpoints #88227 @isidorn
• Clear terminal before launching another debuggee in terminal Clear terminal before launching another debuggee in terminal #116699 @weinand
• 🏃 Improve browser tab notifications for debugging in Web UI Improving stopped indication ("breakpoint hit") for Web UI #100757 @weinand @isidorn
• 💪 Investigate debug UI for highly concurrent languages Investigate debug UI for highly concurrent languages #116109 @weinand @connor4312

DAP

• Support to detect which breakpoint caused a Stopped event Detecting which breakpoint caused a Stopped event debug-adapter-protocol#178 @weinand
• 🏃 Provide more control over the disconnect from target behavior Add terminateDebugger option to disconnect request debug-adapter-protocol#175 Add an option to suspend or keep the target running when disconnecting from a running debugger debug-adapter-protocol#177 @weinand

Testing

• 🏃 Explore how to improve testing support Testing in VS Code #107467 @connor4312 @sandy081

Terminal

• Address issues with Ctrl+C on iPadOS iPadOS: Ctrl + C in terminal doesn’t kill running process #114009 @meganrogge @Tyriar
• Make the WebGL renderer the default, improve fallback logic Make the WebGL terminal renderer the default #118064 @meganrogge @Tyriar
• Polish terminal restart caused by changes of environment variable collection(s) Env var relaunch is distracting #118066 @Tyriar @meganrogge
• Explore replacing the terminal dropdown with tabs Tabs for integrated terminal #10546 @Tyriar @meganrogge
• Terminal profiles Provide a lightweight shell selector without changing default (ie. terminal profiles) #45444 @meganrogge @Tyriar

Source Control

• 💪 Explore UI additions to help guide users to push to a remote after committing Explore UI additions to help guide users to push to a remote after committing #110882 @eamodio
• 💪 Investigate fine grained change events in git core for consumption in the GHPRI and GitLens extensions Investigate introducing more fine grained change events when Git changes are detected #116360 @eamodio

API

• API finalization: query
• API proposals: query

Extensions

• Explore the concept of "extension plug-in" Ability to include additional extensions in an extension that can be installed together #118442 @sandy081 @misolori
• Detect default branch in vsce Try to detect default GitHub branch vscode-vsce#534 @joaomoreno
• Add a Marketplace top level category to the Issue Reporter Add a Marketplace top level category to the Issue Reporter #118473 @RMacfarlane

Extension Contributions

• Improvements to the Remote extensions Remote Iteration Plan for March 2021 vscode-remote-release#4609 team
• Improvements to the GitHub PR extension @RMacfarlane @eamodio
  • Enable PR focus mode by default Enable PR focus mode by default vscode-pull-request-github#2559 @RMacfarlane
  • 🏃 Improve refresh behavior of the PR views Improve refresh behavior of the PR views vscode-pull-request-github#2478 @RMacfarlane
  • Explore automatically setting upstream when encountering forks Automatically add upstream during PR creation vscode-pull-request-github#2439 @RMacfarlane
  • 💪 Explore support for resolving comments Support resolving conversations vscode-pull-request-github#339 @RMacfarlane
  • Contribute Copy Permalink to the 'Copy As' submenu Contribute the Copy Permalink command to the Copy As submenu vscode-pull-request-github#2326 @alexr00

Engineering

• 🏃 Consolidate Open with across text editors, custom editors and notebooks, see Editor override: provide a way to override the editor input as part of createEditorInput #100281 @lramos15
• 🏃 Explore consolidation of saving across text editors, custom editors and notebooks Editor model world should offer some amenities to protect against data loss / file corruption #117873 @bpasero
• Consolidate local and remote terminal implementations Consolidate local and remote terminal implementations #116467 @Tyriar
• 🏃 Consolidate publishing of build artifacts Consolidate publishing builds to Azure #117891 @TylerLeonhardt @joaomoreno
• Fix crash in vscode-encrypt when encryption service fails on POSIX platforms vscode snap version fails to encrypt using the encryptionService #116690
• 🏃 Scroll performance on Windows Slow reponse to scroll and typing #107016 @deepak1556
• 🏃 Support scoped Find on Page in Chromium to unblock our transition from webview to iframe for custom editors and views @rzhao271 Support search in iframe based webview #96307
• 💪 🔴 Adopt vscode.open and vscode.diff in the GHPRI extension @alexr00
• 🏃 Assume ownership of our quick picker code Onboard me to ownership of our quick picker code #118586 @TylerLeonhardt
• Introduce an IProcessEnvService for resolving the merged process environment based on context Do not wait for shell environment resolution before opening window #108804 @bpasero
• Adopt new table widget in the Keyboard Shortcuts editor Adopt keybindings editor to use new table widget #118123 @sandy081
• Speed up mac builds Speed up mac builds #116984 @TylerLeonhardt @deepak1556 @joaomoreno

Node.js-free, sand-boxed renderer

• 🏃 Backlog Implement a node.js-free, sandboxed, context isolated renderer  #92164 @bpasero @deepak1556

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Deferred

• LSP - Collaborate on "TypeHierarchy" support with the Java extension team @dbaeumer Java team
• Investigation: Cache VS Code extension builds Improve engineering overhead of extensions #115023 @joaomoreno @TylerLeonhardt
• Settings sync - debounce requests when a request is in progress Settings sync should debounce requests when a request is in progress #91286 @sandy081
• Continue improving and adding functionality to REST Book Planning backlog for REST Book tanhakabir/rest-book#30 @tanhakabir
• Provide a way to override the editor input as part of createEditorInput Editor override: provide a way to override the editor input as part of createEditorInput #100281 @lramos15 @bpasero

[sunliangqin]

Any plan to update the roadmap for 2021? https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Roadmap

[kieferrm]

@sunliangqin yes, it's coming.

[TylerLeonhardt]

Endgame plan here: #119494

[mgsergio]

You're awesome, guys! Thank you all for such a great tool!