Python: Iteration Plan for February 2022

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This plan captures our work in February. 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.

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

Getting started

• 🏃‍♀️ Lock down initial flow for project creation vscode-python#17194 @luabud @minsa110 @brettcannon
• 🏃‍ Add contribution point to file/newFile vscode-python#18376 @luabud

Environments

• 🏃‍♀️ ✋ Fix venv watcher tests; issue (blocked on vscode issue); @karrtikr
• python.selectInterpreter not working on code-server; issue; @karrtikr
• 🏃‍♀️ detect conda environments lacking an interpreter; issue; @karrtikr
• 🏃‍♀️ Investigate using conda run for conda environments when running python files and while installing via pip; issue; @karrtikr

Editing

None

LSP

• 🏃‍♀️ Prototype per-cell LSP messages; issue; @karthiknadig
• 🏃‍♀️ Prototype whole notebook LSP messages; issue; @karthiknadig

Terminal

• 🔵 Explore options for activated terminals and terminal profiles vscode-python#11039 @karrtikr @luabud
• Python: Create Terminal has noise when used with fish shell; issue; @karrtikr

Debugging

• ${env:...} variables are not being passed via launch.json; issue; @paulacamargo25
• 🔵 Investigate automatic debug configuration based on the open workspace; issue; @paulacamargo25

Formatting

• 🏃‍♀️ Investigate formatting with Black and autopep8 behind LSP; issue; @karthiknadig

Linting

• 🔴 💪 Ask the community for feedback on the extension template; @karthiknadig

Testing

• 💪 Rewrite testing adapter for pytest vscode-python#17242 @kimadeline
• 🏃‍♀️ Rewrite testing adapter for unittest vscode-python#17242 @kimadeline

(github|vscode).dev

None

Engineering

• 🏃‍♀️ Explore localization (desktop and web); issue; @paulacamargo25 @TylerLeonhardt
• 🏃‍♀️ venv test failing due to VS Code upstream and setting inspection vscode-python#17666 @karrtikr @karthiknadig
• 🏃‍♀️ Switch to an insiders/nightly extension in the Marketplace vscode-python#17196 @karthiknadig
• Figure out why Windows tests for workspaces time out; issue; @karthiknadig

Python community

• Look into requirements for a Linux "installer" via a relocatable binary; @brettcannon
• Submit PEP 594 to the steering council; @brettcannon
• 🏃‍♀️ Get feedback from the community on the Python Launcher for Unix plug-in proposal; @brettcannon

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Deferred items

• ✋ 🔵 Work w/ Pylance on automatic indentation vscode-python#481 @brettcannon (blocked on VS Code issue)
• ✋ Create platform-specific VSIXs (blocked on standardizing on creation of new extensions); vscode-python#17439 @paulacamargo25
• Infer environment variables for an activated conda environment vscode-python#17332 @karrtikr
• Move UI for module rename refactoring over to the core extension; @kimadeline
• 🏃‍♀️ ✋ Create a programmatic definition of LSP; issue; @karthiknadig