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Description
This plan captures our work in January. 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.
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 |
Dev Container Specification / CLI
- Update schema to equivalent of inlining
allOfdevcontainers/spec#93 @aeschli @chrmarti
Core
- Rethink and clean-up contributions to the remote indicator vscode-remote-release#7741 @aeschli @chrmarti @eleanorjboyd @joyceerhl
- Create a new devcontainer.json for the vscode repository that is simpler vscode#170969 @chrmarti
Dev Containers Extension
- 🏃 Full support for folders with multiple devcontainer.json files vscode-remote-release#7548 @chrmarti
- Hint to rebuild container after adding a feature vscode-remote-release#7592 @chrmarti
- Polish "Create Dev Container..." vscode-remote-release#7629 @chrmarti
- Investigate docker credential forwarding vscode-remote-release#7184 @chrmarti
- 🏃 Take advantage of container metadata when attaching vscode-remote-release#7872 @chrmarti
- 💪 🔴 Indicate that bind mounts are slower (on Windows) in the Remote Explorer info tree view @chrmarti
WSL
- 💪 Download server bits when updating and WSL was used recently vscode-remote-release#3839 @aeschli
- 🏃 Explore adopting the CLI for starting/managing the VS Code Server on WSL vscode-remote-release#7864 @aeschli @connor4312
Remote-SSH
- 🏃 Adopt new error type in SSH resolver vscode#163241 @eleanorjboyd @roblourens
- 💪 Attempt reconnection following device short sleep vscode-remote-release#5755 @eleanorjboyd @roblourens
- 💪 Find workaround for new Windows bug vscode-remote-release#7272 @eleanorjboyd
Remote-Tunnel
- Prevent sleep: vscode-remote-release#7125 @connor4312
- 💪 Support "Allow Tunnel access" for the remote when connected to a SSH/WSL remote window vscode-remote-release#7865 @aeschli @connor4312
- Improve reconnection reliability vscode-remote-tunnels#565 vscode-remote-tunnels#569 @connor4312
- 🏃 CLI invocations should connect to the running CLI process vscode#171520 @connor4312 @aeschli
Deferred
- Adopt CLI service mode in "Turn on Remote Tunnel Access" vscode#171520 @aeschli