Iteration Plan for August 2017

[kieferrm]

This plan captures our work in August. This is a 4 week iteration. We will ship early September. The main focus remains the same as last iteration's: We continue pushing on #396 "Multi-folder workspaces", this is our roadmap #28344.

As in July, our team will operate with slightly reduced capacity. Being on the Northern Hemisphere means Summer is upon us and so, at any given time, a few of us will be busy recharging with friends and families. If you mention somebody in an issue and you don't hear anything for a couple of days, just picture them hanging out on the beach 🏖️ or skiing in New Zealand ⛷️.

Endgame

• August 29th: Code freeze for the endgame
• Sept 1th: Endgame done

The endgame details for this iteration are tracked in #33215.

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
🔵	more details required
🔴	missing issue reference

Workbench

Multi-folder workspaces #28344 (feature request #396) @bpasero @Tyriar @ team

• migrate hot-exit data (do not prompt to save dirty files)
• migrate UI state (local storage)
• investigate to not require a window reload @bpasero @sandy081 (Multi root: transition without window reload #32945)
• migrate workspace settings if any @sandy081 (Migrate workspace settings when shifting from single folder to workspace mode #32947)
• revisit workspace file format @bpasero (Multi root: revisit workspace file format #32946)
• support to add a folder to a workspace from the command line @bpasero

Editor

• Finish/polish Color Picker Color Picker: Finalize Color Picker API #32235 @rebornix @joaomoreno
• 🏃 Refactor the Find widget so that it can be shared across components Refactor FindWidget: shareable find component with history/commands #32241 @rebornix
• 💪 Explore additional column selection gestures Explore additional column selection gestures #32491 @alexandrudima
• Support for smooth scrolling Implement smooth scrolling feature #25286 @alexandrudima
• Add support for setting the cursor from a Braille display Unable to position the cursor in the editor using braille routing keys in NVDA #27216 @alexandrudima

Monaco Editor

• New release of the Monaco Editor Monaco Editor Release July 2017 monaco-editor#510 @rebornix

Debug

• Extension Debugging using inspector protocol Attach to extension host vscode-node-debug2#4 @roblourens @weinand
• ✋ Investigate WSL support for debuggers issues @weinand

Protocol

• Support scriptParsed like event in the protocol debugadapter-node/108 @weinand
• Add a url field to source objects  debugadapter-node/125 Debug should allow uri in DebugProtocol.Source #30996 @weinand
• Include display hints on evaluation results debugadapter-node/123 @weinand
• Support links to source locations in OutputEvents debugadapter-node/94 @weinand

Terminal

• Polish terminal switcher Polish Terminal Switcher #32236 @Lixire
• Analyze specific needs for terminal accessibility @aefernandes @Tyriar
• Native node module to pull Windows process information Use a native node module to pull Windows shell process information #31818 @Tyriar @Lixire

SCM

• Initial support for multiple repositories in a workspace SCM: Support multiple repositories #31325 @joaomoreno

Tasks

• Contribute problem matchers for webpack Contribute problem matcher for the webpack ts-loader #29619 @Lixire

Languages

Multi-root folder support

• Support multi-root-folder setup for CSS/LESS/SASS [css] add multiroot support #32486 @aeschli
• Support multi-root-folder setup for JSON [json] add multiroot support #32487 @aeschli
• Support multi-root-folder setup for HTML [html] add multiroot support #32489 @aeschli
• Support multi-root folder setup for TypeScript TypeScript Extension Multiroot Support #30414 @mjbvz

Language Server Support (vscode-languageclient, vscode-languageserver)

• Multiroot language support for shared servers (server can handle multiple folders) Add support to propose new protocol both on the client side and server side vscode-languageserver-node#232 @dbaeumer
• Multiroot language support for isolated servers (server per folder, scoped settings) Add support to start a language client multiple times on different workspace folders. vscode-languageserver-node#235 @dbaeumer

HTML

• Autoclosing tags support [html] VSCode doesn't automatically close HTML tags #2246 @aeschli

JavaScript/TypeScript

• Adopt TS 2.5 Adopt TS 2.5 #32109 @mjbvz
• ✋ Support external files supported by TS server plug-ins Support External Files Provided by TS Plugin #30411 @mjbvz
• ✋ Explore compile-on save Investigate improving webpack support #32108 @mjbvz

Extensions

• 🏃 Improve extension recommendations Improve extension recommendations (August milestone) #32422 @ramya-rao-a
• Provide extension authors with extension uninstall information Uninstall telemetry #32765 @joaomoreno

API

• Finalize secure credential storage API Provide a unified, secure, credential store #15414 @chrmarti
• Support commands in the hover Allow command: links in hover decorations #29076 @jrieken
• Explore support to open File/Folder dialog from an extension API Request: Function for showing an "Open File" dialog that returns the selected path #13807 @jrieken
• SearchProvider` propose API for contributing to Search Support for remote development scenarios #29194 @jrieken
• Debug - add support for a debug configuration provider Add support for a debug configuration provider #32086 @weinand

Extension Contributions

• PHP parser maintenance Template string support tolerant-php-parser#12 @roblourens
• TaskProvider for rake Rake task auto detection rubyide/vscode-ruby#192 @rebornix
• Go enable the extension for the multiroot setup Enable multi-root set up vscode-go#1142 @ramya-rao-a
• Multi root support for vscode-eslint @dbaeumer
• Multi root support for vscode-tslint @egamma

Engineering Items

• Adopt latest Electron Adopt Electron 1.7.x #28582 @Tyriar
• 🏃 Add watch-dog which can kill runaway extension host processes Implement a watch-dog mechanism which can kill runaway extension host processes #26445 @alexandrudima
• Implement extension host restarting Implement extension host restarting #32768 @alexandrudima
• When encountering errors, identify the extension they came from When encountering errors, identify the extension they came from #32766 Notifications - show which extension they came from #21302 @jrieken
• Correlate unhandled extension host exceptions with extensions Correlate unhandled extension host exceptions with extensions #32490 @alexandrudima

Documentation

• Recipe for using Tasks with webpack (see Contribute problem matcher for the webpack ts-loader #29619) @Lixire @aefernandes
• 🏃 Recipe for debugging an electron app in TS Add recipe for Electron vscode-recipes#10 @auchenberg

Exploration

• Analysis of current test runner extensions @aefernandes

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Deferred

• Continue improving  automated issue management Improve automated issue management #32238 @chrmarti
• Investigate improved support for webpack Investigate improving webpack support #32108 @mjbvz
• Extension search improvements (by category, trending) Extension search improvements (by category, trending) #33035 @sandy081

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• Explore improve performance of quick open on Windows using  a native module Explore improve performance of quick open on Windows using a native module #32237 @chrmarti
• Cleanup ExtensionContext.workspaceState when a workspace no longer exists Cleanup ExtensionContext.workspaceState when a workspace no longer exists #32461 @dbaeumer

[ghiscoding]

@kieferrm did you forget add the milestone or is it intentional?
I like seeing these plans directly in the milestone :)

BTW, I know that the multi-folder workspaces is currently the biggest focus, however I'm curious to know when should we expect more cleanup/polish of the minimap? I'd really like to see a better integration of the Git Status inside the minimap.

[tobyee]

As polishing terminal, I perfer this way #9353 to support creating new terminal which has more scalability.
Multiple type terminal support is useful while there are different style between terminals, such as git bash and cmd.

[Tyriar]

@tobyee please check out the extension https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Tyriar.shell-launcher which was built to support this use case.

[egamma]

Closing - 1.16 has shipped