Remote: Iteration Plan for February 2023 #7972
Description
This plan captures our work in February 2023. 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 |
Core
- Simplify content in the remote indicator vscode-internalbacklog#3440 @joyceerhl @daviddossett @chrmarti @aeschli @connor4312 @eleanorjboyd @jkeech @bamurtaugh
Dev Container Specification / CLI
- 🏃 Remove dependance on legacy features cli#287 @chrmarti
- Setting
NODE_OPTIONSinremoteEnvbreaks Codespace⚠️ cli#351 @chrmarti
Dev Containers Extension
- 🏃 Remove dependance on built-in repository configs vscode-remote-release#7532 @chrmarti
- Indicate that bind mounts are slower (on Windows) in the Remote Explorer info tree view vscode-remote-release#8014 @chrmarti
- 💪 Attach to Kubernetes: Support container metadata vscode-remote-release#7880 @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
- Stop Retry on Fatal Failures vscode-remote-release#7498 @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 Repositories
- Improvements to the GitHub Repositories extension query @joyceerhl
- Explore Git LFS support vscode-remote-repositories-github#7 @joyceerhl
- Ship Remote Repositories Getting Started walkthrough vscode-remote-repositories-github#268 @bhavyaus @joyceerhl
Deferred
- Improve management of Dev Containers vscode-remote-release#7720 @chrmarti
- Fix password prompt on folder open vscode-remote-release#6227 @eleanorjboyd
- CLI invocations should connect to the running CLI process vscode#171520 @connor4312 @aeschli
- Support "Allow Tunnel access" for the remote when connected to a SSH/WSL remote window vscode-remote-release#7865 @aeschli @connor4312
- Adopt CLI service mode in "Turn on Remote Tunnel Access" vscode#171520 @aeschli
- 🔴 Adopt the CLI RPC library in the test resolver extension @aeschli (requires open-sourcing the cli-rpc library)