Description
This plan captures our work in October. This is a 4-week iteration. We will ship in early November.
As you can see the plan is rather lean as this is our annual house-keeping iteration. You'll see a large number of GitHub issue notifications over the course of this iteration. If you want to track our progress, @lannonbr a while back created this nice website: https://vscode-github-stats.netlify.com/
If you are interested in why we have issue house keeping iterations and in our general philosophy around issue management, then we have this write-up for you.
House-keeping is not the only focus this iteration. We'll also work closely with our partners at GitHub to get GitHub Codespaces in great shape.
Update: The work on codespaces is more involved than we originally anticipated. Most of us didn't make the progress that you usually see in our house-keeping iterations.
Endgame
- October 26, 2020: Endgame begins
- October 30, 2020: Endgame done
The endgame details for this iteration are tracked in #109419.
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 |
Housekeeping
- 🏃 Issue/PR Grooming - review, categorization, assignment 2020 Issue Grooming - review, categorization, assignment #108472 team
Accessibility
- Accessibility issues, see query team
Workbench
- Use encrypted keychain for account management Use encrypted keychain for account management #95475 @RMacfarlane @sbatten
- 🏃 💪 Explore the concept of Trusted Workspaces General Discussion on Workspace Trust Feature #106488 @Tyriar @lszomoru
UX
- 🏃 Explore possible integrations between extensions view and GH Sponsors Explore integration between extensions view and GitHub Sponsors #107482 @misolori
- 🏃 Explore improvements to welcome pages Explore improvements to welcome pages #106715 @misolori @JacksonKearl
- Make suggest widget resizable feature-request: possibility to change the size of description popup #29126 @jrieken
Notebook Editor
- 🏃 Identify and fill API gaps for Live Share API gaps to support Liveshare in Notebook #102503 @rebornix
- Explore improved UX for kernel management Explore ux for switching notebook kernels/connections #106519 @misolori
API
- API finalization: query
Extension Contributions
- Improvements to the Remote extensions Remote: Iteration Plan for October 2020 vscode-remote-release#3834 team
Deferred Items
- All work that was in-flight end of September. We'll resume that work in early November.