Iteration Plan for July 2020

[kieferrm]

This plan captures our work in July. We will ship in early August. This is a 5-week iteration and it includes the Microsoft-wide Hackathon on July 27-29. Also, this is the start of the vacation season (July-August) and although not a lot of traveling is happening, our team still takes time off.

Endgame

• August 3rd, 2020: Endgame begins
• August 7th, 2020: Endgame done

The endgame details for this iteration are tracked in #103792.

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

Accessibility

• Accessibility issues, see query team
• 🏃 Revisit navigation model of the settings UI Improve settings editor accessibility #97567 @9at8
• Community call (July 23rd) VS Code Accessibility Call - July 2020 #102832 @sana-ajani @isidorn

Workbench

• Manual Settings Sync UI Polish settings-sync UI #100426 @misolori @sandy081
• 🏃 Use encrypted keychain for account management Use encrypted keychain for account management #95475 @RMacfarlane @sbatten
• First run experience: Support initial view state for Custom Views Support to contribute a custom view so that it is only visible in the Views menu of view's container #101283 and move the NPM Script Explorer to the View menu @alexr00
• First run experience: Simplify Extensions View menu Review and clean up overflow actions in extensions viewlet #100756 @sandy081
• Use shadow DOM for custom context menu to preserve editor focus Adopt shadow dom for the context view service #98673 @sbatten

Tasks

• 🏃 💪 Expose variable resolvers for CustomExecution tasks CustomExecution2 Feedback: expose variable resolvers #81007 @alexr00

Notebook Editor

• Support for interrupting cell execution Add support for multiple cancellations in Notebook stop button #99203 @roblourens
• Consolidate kernel support Notebook kernels #101963 @rebornix
• 🔴 🏃 Collaborate with language teams on notebook support @jrieken
• Explore notebook webview crash fix: crash due to race between attach and destruction of webview electron/electron#24344 @rebornix @deepak1556
• Provide automated fuzzy tests for finding notebook layout issues Set up a button-smashing test to discover notebook issues #102541 @roblourens
• Polish notebook behavior query @roblourens @rebornix
• Support Jupyter-like cell folding Implement Jupyter-style cell folding #100308 @roblourens @misolori
• Support splitting/joining of all cell types Support splitting/joining of all cell types #102504 @rebornix
• Provide editor inspired keybindings for cell operations out of the box Keyboard shortcuts for new notebook UI #101436 @rebornix
• Revise the renderer API surface (extension host and webview context) and package.json entry points Notebook "Pure" Renderer API #102644 @connor4312
• Investigate into API gaps to support notebook diffing Notebook source control / diff #94810 @rebornix
• Investigate into API gaps to support Liveshare for notebooks API gaps to support Liveshare in Notebook #102503 @rebornix

Languages

LSP / LSIF

• 🏃 Towards LSP version 3.16 @dbaeumer
• Stabilize the LSIF TypeScript indexer @dbaeumer

TypeScript/JavaScript

• Get ready for adopting TS 4.0 Bundle TypeScript 4.0 with VS Code  #102919 @mjbvz

Debug

• Address self-hosting debugging pain-points Improve debug self hosting experience #100368 @connor4312
• 🏃 Improve inline value Debugger: debug.inlineValues support for case insensitive variable names  #101797 @weinand
• Expose a stopDebugging API Expose a stopDebugging API to extensions #101883 @weinand
• Investigate exposing DAP IDs of breakpoints in the vscode API Expose DAP IDs of breakpoints in vscode API #99716 @weinand

SCM

• Simplify the Git '...' menu and introduce submenus Git: Improve dropdown menu #102109 (requires Add API support for submenus #100172) @joaomoreno
• Offer to create fork if user has no commit rights on GitHub repository GitHub: Offer to fork the repository if no permissions to push #102393 @joaomoreno
• Make the GitHub repository picker available to other extensions Git: Make repository picker available to other extensions #102394 @joaomoreno

API

• API finalization: query
• API proposals: query

Extension Contributions

• Improvements to the Remote extensions Remote: Iteration Plan for July 2020 vscode-remote-release#3347 team
• Improvements to the GitHub PR and Issues extension, see query @alexr00
• Improvements to the Hex editor extension Iteration Plan July 2020 vscode-hexeditor#76 @lramos15

Install

• 🏃 Explore msix installer for VS Code on Windows MSIX installer #61793 @sbatten
• Windows - add meta data for the uninstaller Problem Updating VS Code - Blocked By AppLocker Due To Insufficient Information In Update Executable #73805 @joaomoreno

Engineering

• Improve experimentation service Enhance experimentation service to support new framework #102620 @sbatten

Bots

• ✋ Make issue triaging extension available in browser store(s) Release in chrome extension store vscode-github-triage-extension#2 @JacksonKearl

Electron

• ✋ Upgrade to electron 8/9 Update to Electron 9 #100731 @deepak1556

Node.js-free, sandboxed renderer ⬛

Backlog: #92164

• Support for encodings in sandboxed/web environments (iconv-lite, jschardet) Web: support other encodings than UTF-8 #79275 @bpasero
• Support perf metrics for web #101850 add perf marks for web, enable perf view editor for web @jrieken
• Remove dependency on node for startup path Remove dependency on node require for startup code path #98682 @deepak1556 @alexdima
  • Adopt V8 cached data option for browser windows @deepak1556
  • Move off file:// protocol for serving static assets @deepak1556
• Minimal sandboxed version of the workbench with stubbed services @bpasero @deepak1556
  • Make our bootstrap and preload files ready to run in sandbox and isolated mode @bpasero
• ✋ Enable sandbox: true and contextIsolation for some of our windows Enable sandbox for issue reporter and process explorer #101834 @deepak1556
  • Issue reporter Issue reporter: remove node.js/electron dependencies #101833 @RMacfarlane
  • Process explorer Process explorer: remove node.js/electron dependencies #101832 @RMacfarlane

Documentation

• None.

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Deferred Items

• Undo/redo of workspace edit file operations, support linked undo operations, Support linked undo operations #101789 @alexdima @jrieken
• Explore tabular variables debug view requirements Add a tabular variables view for debugging #100205 @weinand
• Improve existing Windows installer Exploration: Improve setup experience on Windows (Inno Setup) #102594 @lszomoru @joaomoreno
• 💪 Investigate issues introduced by the Web UI stopped indication Improving stopped indication ("breakpoint hit") for Web UI #100757 @weinand @isidorn
• 💪 Provide guidelines for extension authors how to consume the GitHub authentication provider Documentation for consuming authentication providers #100995 @RMacfarlane

[AdsonCicilioti]

Hi guys!

When will we have Sync Settings/Preferences in the main release?

[Tyriar]

@AdsonCicilioti we're aiming to ship it in stable as part of this version.

[AdsonCicilioti]

@AdsonCicilioti we're aiming to ship it in stable as part of this version.

Thanks @Tyriar!

[astrowonk]

Is there a plan to address any of the copious SCM single view feedback in #102118? A lot of us are sufficiently frustrated that we have stayed on 1.46.