Iteration Plan for January 2024

[kieferrm]

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:

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

• Consider alert instead of audio cue for components vscode#195282 @meganrogge
• Accessibility issues, see query @meganrogge team
• GHPRI Accessibility issues, see query @alexr00

Workbench

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

Code Editor

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

Search

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

Notebook Editor

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

Jupyter Notebooks

• Finalize/publish Jupyter Kernel API (merge into api.d.ts and update npm package) vscode-jupyter#14669 @DonJayamanne
• Polish for auto complete from kernel vscode-jupyter#13596 @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 @DonJayamanne @rebornix
• 💪 Explore file explorer/file syncing for Remote Jupyter Server vscode-jupyter#1366 @DonJayamanne @rebornix
• 🏃 Implement jupyter variable provider vscode-jupyter#14821 @amunger

WebAssembly Support

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

Languages

Python

• Contributions to the Python extension, see plan @brettcannon team

Language Server Protocol

• LSP support to 3rd-parties vscode-python#21964 @karthiknadig

TypeScript

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

Source Control

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

Testing

• Design test coverage UX/API vscode#123713 @connor4312

Debug

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

Debug Adapter Protocol

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

API

• API proposals: query @jrieken @mjbvz
• API finalization: query @jrieken @mjbvz
• 🏃 Explore improvements to the proposed IssueReporter API vscode#196863 @justschen

Extensions

• Investigate high extension install error rate vscode#190233 @sandy081

Extension Contributions

• Improvements to the Remote extensions, see plan @roblourens @chrmarti @connor4312 @joyceerhl
• GHPRI: Allow users to resolve merge conflicts from PR view vscode-pull-request-github#1562 @alexr00
• GHPRI: Provide group by setting for queries vscode-pull-request-github#1881 @alexr00
• Ship new ESLint release version @dbaeumer

Engineering

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

Electron

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

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Deferred

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

[Cpt-Falcon]

Any word on whether copy paste is going to be fixed? You can't copy a variable during debugging without visual studio truncating saying "...". Quite a nuisance. Only way to get the contents of a larger variable is to write it out to a json file. Visual studio 2022 doesn't have this problem and limitation. I would understand if it truncated past 1000, but truncating it at like 20 is ridiculous. Maybe put a setting in the vs code settings that does not restrict on copying large variable values from the debugger

[jstm88]

How about addressing the fact that extensions are constantly able to spam the "Output" panel and there is no way to prevent it?

I opened #203478 in an attempt to get the discussion in #105270 restarted, but all mentions of this problem keep getting incorrectly closed as "duplicates" because the original report from over 6 years ago was closed without fully understanding the issue.

Not sure what users are supposed to do when a rogue mod starts closing valid issues and then not even looking at the discussion where users are calling for it to be reopened...