Iteration Plan for March 2022

[kieferrm]

This plan captures our work in March. This is a 4-week iteration. We will ship in late March / early April.

Endgame

• March 22, 2022: Endgame begins
• March 25, 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
• Consolidate and improve reduced motion mode vscode#128595 @JacksonKearl

UX

• Develop a VS Code design system (classifying patterns for activity bar/sidebar/views/etc.) vscode#140601 @misolori
• 🏃 Explore 3-way merge editor vscode#146091 @daviddossett @isidorn
• Explore notification improvements vscode#144324 @daviddossett
• 🏃 Explore variations for File > New File and File > New File... vscode#145046 @lychung7 @digitarald @sbatten

Workbench

• Improve discoverability of workbench layout options vscode#137633 @sbatten @lychung7
• 🏃 Allow user to see which settings have language overrides vscode#131707 @rzhao271 @lychung7 @sandy081
• Identify gaps to provide profile like functionality including user research vscode#139409 @sandy081 @sana-ajani
• Explore providing a local file history vscode#26339 @bpasero
• Expose the confidence level of the history-based language detection model vscode#143901 @JacksonKearl
• Improve virtual file nesting for certain file icon themes vscode#141359 @JacksonKearl
• Support dark and light high contrast theme types vscode#144193 @aeschli
• 💪 🏃 Explore Continue On... support in core vscode#141293 @joyceerhl
• 💪 Adopt ghost text for previewing emmet expansions vscode#139247 @rzhao271 @hediet

Web

• Support DnD of local files when using a local file system vscode#141935 @bpasero
• 🏃 Support workspace trust in the web vscode#145564 @sbatten

Code Editor

• Explore using injected text for quick suggestions vscode#126375 @jrieken @hediet
• React to feedback on automatic brackets completions in inline completions vscode#141550 @hediet
• 💪 Adopt bracket AST infrastructure for all bracket related features vscode#132536 @hediet
• 🔴 💪 Explore moving tokenization to a web worker @hediet
• 💪 Align editor find widget with the notebook find widget vscode#144851 @rebornix

Commenting

• Improve the create comment UI vscode-pull-request-github#2588 @alexr00 @alexdima
• Explore resolved/unresolved comments vscode#127473 @alexr00 @isidorn
• Reveal the comments panel when a file is opened that has comments vscode#143948 @alexr00
• 🏃 Explore cell level commenting in notebooks vscode#144850 @rebornix

Notebook Editor

• 🏃 Improve code structure and dependencies vscode#131808 @roblourens @rebornix
• Show find results in the notebook scrollbar vscode#142985 @rebornix
• Provide developer command to run notebook controllers extensions in dedicated extension host vscode/140374 @rebornix
  • Create experimental setting to host extensions in different local process extensions hosts vscode/144840 @alexdima
• 💪 Allow resizing for the find widget in notebooks vscode#141516 @rebornix
• 💪 Consolidate notebook setting names vscode#142986 @rebornix @roblourens

Jupyter Notebooks

• Contributions to the vscode-jupyter extension vscode-jupyter#9245 @greazer team

Languages

AnyCode

• Enable language contributions for AnyCode anycode#24 @jrieken @aeschli
• 🔴 Investigate bundling the AnyCode extension for VS Code desktop @jrieken @aeschli

LSP

• Prepare LSP v3.17 with support for inlay hints, type hierarchy, inline code, pull diagnostics support LSP query languageserver-node query @dbaeumer
• Adopt LSIF's mapped types annotations to LSP language-server-protocol#67 @dbaeumer @karthiknadig

Python

• Contributions to the python extension vscode-python#18642 @brettcannon team

JavaScript/TypeScript

• Improve Typescript and Javascript out of the box experience vscode#144062 @isidorn @gregvanl
• 💪 Explore automatic type acqusition on web typescript#45314 @mjbvz
• 🏃 Support TS server plugins on web vscode#140455 @mjbvz

Markdown

• 🏃 Investigate create file and image links using DnD vscode#142990 @mjbvz

CSS

• Provide a CSS formatter out-of-the-box vscode#19166 @aeschli

Debug

• Explore: Allow debug extensions to show diagnostic information in the breakpoints view vscode#142870 @roblourens @weinand @connor4312
• 🏃 Prototype extension debugging in a clean environment vscode#126737 @weinand

DAP

• Evaluate request sent with unspecified variables context debug-adapter-protocol#233 @weinand
• Allow a debuggee to be disconnected gracefully debug-adapter-protocol#196 @weinand

js-debug

• Adopt completionItem.details vscode#142124 @roblourens @connor4312
• 🏃 💪 Investigate supporting to attach to webviews running inside UWP applications vscode-js-debug#1209 @connor4312
• 💪 Investigate: Smart Step Into vscode#123879 @connor4312 @weinand

Testing

• 💪 Provide support for Go to Test/Go to Test Subject vscode#126932 @connor4312

Terminal

• Improve Shell integration vscode#144596 @Tyriar @meganrogge
• Support "Copy as HTML" in the terminal vscode#20813 @meganrogge
• Enable scrollbar annotations in the terminal vscode#144595 @meganrogge
• 🏃 Highlight all matches when searching in the terminal vscode#134790 @meganrogge

Source Control

• 💪 Make repository pickers available for other extensions vscode#141295 @joyceerhl
• Adopt new markdown rendering support in timeline hovers vscode#144397 @lszomoru @lychung7
• A full editor can be used as git commit message editor vscode#95266 @lszomoru @lychung7
• 🔴 Provide sorting options for repositories in the SCM view @lszomoru

API

• API finalization: query @jrieken @mjbvz @hediet
• API proposals: query @jrieken @mjbvz
• 🏃 Explore API access to open editors including focused notebooks or custom editors vscode#15178 @lramos15
• 🏃 💪 Finalize the Notebook API that is used by the LSP Notebook support @jrieken @rebornix @dbaeumer
• Add support for drag&drop in custom trees vscode#32592 @alexr00

Extensions

• Update extension to more specific target platform vscode#141696 @sandy081
• Explore auto updating built in extensions vscode#68410 @sandy081 @alexdima
• Investigate pre-release support for built-in extensions vscode#144585 @sandy081
• Support passing extension packs as additionalBuiltinExtensions in VS Code Web vscode#1452955 @sandy081

Extension Contributions

• Improvements to the GitHub Repositories extension (see query) @joyceerhl
• Improvements to the Remote extensions vscode-remote-release#6421 @alexr00 @tanhakabir @chrmarti @aeschli
• Improvements to the GitHub PRI extension (see query) @alexr00
• 🏃 Work with popular extension on adopting and improving their welcome pages vscode#118402 @digitarald @lychung7
• 💪 Investigate eslint notebook support in the web 1366 @dbaeumer

Install

• 💪 Adopt the Windows 11 explorer context menu vscode#127365 @deepak1556

Engineering

• Improve restore of layout of custom views vscode#106585 see also vscode#60266 @mjbvz
• 🏃 Review errors to identify which ones are actionable as error telemetry vscode#145043 @lramos15 team
• 🏃 Decide on a subset of shared issue labels to simplify moving issues between repositories issue @brettcannon

Electron

• Update to Electron 17 vscode#137241 @deepak1556 @bpasero
• Explore how to support direct helper process to workbench communication vscode#131798 @deepak1556
• Improve dependency generation for rpm vscode#17142 @rzhao271
• 💪 Fix cursor for draggable region elements on macOS vscode#140724 @rzhao271
• ✋ Refactor startup code to use electron's requestSingleInstanceLock API vscode#97626 @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

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Deferred

• 🏃 Explore using the window titlebar to make the command palette more discoverable vscode#142867 @lychung7
• 💪 🏃 Support smooth scrolling in the terminal vscode#125950 @Tyriar
• Explore translations in the web vscode#136331 @TylerLeonhardt
• Explore inside-out silent git installation (docker-like, using winget?) vscode#136408 @digitarald @lszomoru
• Explore cell-by-cell navigation for screen reader users vscode#69795 @Tyriar
• 💪 Propose UI for debugging highly concurrent languages vscode#116109 @weinand

[joshsleeper]

• Update to Electron 17 chore: update to electron 16 #137241 @deepak1556 @bpasero

either the text is wrong and 16 is correct, or it's probably supposed to be linking to #143223 which I think is actually the 17 upgrade?
the date of the 16 PR merge feels too far back to be correct.

[Tyriar]

v1.66.0 is released