Jupyter: Iteration Plan for August 2022

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This plan captures our work in August. We follow the same iteration cycle as VS Code. Although we plan for a whole iteration, we may not only ship at the end of an iteration but throughout.

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
🔁	repeating activity from iteration to iteration
🔴	missing issue reference
🔵	more investigation required to remove uncertainty
⚫	under discussion within the team

UX

• 🏃 Review/rethink Server/Kernel picker vscode-jupyter#11077 @minsa110 @misolori @IanMatthewHuff

General

• 🏃 Support pasting images into Markdown cells vscode-jupyter#5321, vscode#119961 @Yoyokrazy @mjbvz
• Adopt new cell context key pattern vscode-jupyter#10595 @roblourens
• Investigate creating a virtual environment for a notebook/workspace vscode-jupyter#9640 @IanMatthewHuff @minsa110
• Ensure cell is not stuck in execution when server connection goes down @DonJayamanne vscode-jupyter#10568
• Improve reliability of tests vscode-jupyter#10634 @amunger

Kernels

• Ensure correct process cleanup when a notebook closes @DonJayamanne vscode-jupyter#11018
• Improved kernel error messages for users @DonJayamanne vscode-jupyter#1110
• Investigate elimination of backup kernels and interrupt handlers processes @DonJayamanne vscode-jupyter#9909
• Allow connecting to Jupyter Servers that require authentication @IanMatthewHuff vscode-jupyter#10300
• 🏃 Kernel architecture review and polish vscode-jupyter#10832 @rebornix @DonJayamanne

Debugging

• 🏃 Restart Run-by-Line debugging session when stopped in a python file vscode-jupyter#7611 @roblourens
• 🏃 Improve reliability of Run-by-Line vscode-jupyter#11006 @roblourens
• 💪 Enable ipykernel 6 debugging in the interactive window query @roblourens
• 💪 Debugging/debugger architecture review and polish vscode-jupyter#11108 @roblourens @rebornix

Interactive Window

• Ensure correct execution order in the Interactive Window vscode-jupyter#10671 @amunger
• 🏃 Improve keyboard navigation in the Interactive Window vscode#148820 @amunger

Deferred

• Show in editor progress when connecting to a kernel (not just the notification) @rebornix @DonJayamanne vscode-jupyter#11161
• Ensure Plotly widgets are rendered when opening a notebook @DonJayamanne vscode-jupyter#6404
• Enable test run history vscode-jupyter#9218 @amunger
• Improve build time vscode-jupyter#10399 @rebornix @rchiodo
• Drive scenarios and behavior for IW Input Box Intellisense plan across Python, Pylance, LSP, Jupyter vscode-jupyter#10630 vscode#151994 @rchiodo @debonte
• Submit bug fix for ZMQ to allow us to build and ship without regressions. Required for vscode-jupyter#5206 @rchiodo
• Remote files and synchronization story vscode-jupyter#1366, vscode-jupyter#9975 @rchiodo
• Intellisense full support vscode-jupyter#9976 @rchiodo pylance team python team