Remote Iteration Plan for February 2021

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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 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
🔴	missing issue reference
🔵	more investigation required to remove uncertainty
⚫	under discussion within the team

Remote Core

• Enable the Simple Browser for previewing end points exposed by forwarded ports Enable the Simple Browser for previewing end points exposed by forwarded ports #4436 @alexr00 @mjbvz
• Ports view polish Ports view polish vscode#116058 @alexr00
• ✋ Notarize the VS Code Server for macOS https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tree/robo/reh_server_notarize @deepak1556

Remote-SSH

• 💪 Explore how the resolver can deal more flexibly with long install scripts Windows Remote-SSH install script has a character limit #4487 @roblourens
• 💪 Explore X11 forwarding Remote SSH integrated terminal doesn't forward x11 #589 @roblourens

Remote-Container

• Support portAttributes as a top level attribute in devContainer.json Support portAttributes as a top level attribute in devContainer.json #4432 @alexr00 @chrmarti
• Support to update the port attributes in devcontainer.json when a user assigns a label to a port Offer to update the port attributes in devcontainer.json when a user assigns a label to a port #4433 @alexr00
• Move the postCreateCommand execution to the background Move the postCreateCommand execution to the background #4446 @chrmarti
• Add category metadata to the existing vscode-dev-containers Add categories to metadata vscode-dev-containers#740 @Chuxel
• Adopt the category metadata in the 'Add dev container' command (only show Core containers in the first level of the quick pick) Adopt the category metadata in the 'Add dev container' command #4447 @egamma @chrmarti

Remote-WSL

• Suggest storing source code in WSL2 when /mnt folder is opened Suggest storing source code in WSL2 when /mnt folder is opened #4454 @aeschli
• Fallback to polling when run on a /mnt network drive Fallback to polling when run on a /mnt network drive  #4455 @aeschli