Iteration Plan for February 2020

[egamma]

This plan captures our work in February. We will ship in early March. This is a 4-week iteration.

Endgame

• February 24th, 2020: Endgame begins
• February 28th, 2020: Endgame done

The endgame details for this iteration are tracked in #91278.

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

UX

• Identify design inconsistencies with UI + JSON experiences Identify design inconsistencies with UI + JSON expriences #84309 @misolori
• Explore how to make extension packs more visible Add visual indicator for extension packs in extension search results #89962 @misolori @sandy081

Accessibility

• Investigate into accessibility on Linux (using Orca) Investigate into Linux Orca screen reader #90446 @isidorn
• Accessibility issues, see query @isidorn

Workbench

• Settings sync Settings Sync Plan #90129 @sandy081
• Improve testing support for settings sync Create sync test suite that verifies the right headers are being sent in various situations #90076 @sandy081 @Tyriar
• Enable views to move between containers using drag'n drop and commands Enable views to move between containers (Part 2) #89729 @sbatten @sandy081 @isidorn
• 🏃 Custom Editors - validate the proposed API for custom editors Custom webview editor API #77131 @mjbvz @bpasero @jrieken
• Custom Editors - enable workspace edits Support for custom editors in the workbench #84672 @bpasero
• Improve offline support for authentication providers Improve handling of token refresh while offline #89200 @RMacfarlane
• Validate the proposed API for authentication providers by implementing a GitHub provider GitHub Authentication Provider #90384 @RMacfarlane
• 🏃 Explore UX for account management Authentication providers - Account management UX #90385 @RMacfarlane
• Render whitespace in selection by default Render whitespace in selection by default #90386 @RMacfarlane
• Enable search editor in stable https://github.com/Micrsoft/vscode/issues/23931 @JacksonKearl
• 🏃 Provide in core implementation for notebooks (see feature list) Notebook implementation in core (rendering / editor features) #90382 @rebornix
• 🔴 🏃 Explore language support for notebooks @jrieken
• Explore global undo/redo of workspace edits Allow to undo/redo edits across multiple files #638 @alexdima
• Support contributable Welcome View contents Views: Support contributable welcome view content #89080 shown when a view is empty @joaomoreno

Editor

• 🏃 Semantic coloring: validate current API, engage with popular extensions Tokenization overhaul #77140 @aeschli @alexdima
• 🔴 💪 Improve the discoverability of the column selection support @alexdima
• Support to render the full document in the minimap Minimap: Show Full Document #21849 @alexdima
• 🔴 Ship the standalone editor @alexdima

Languages

• 🏃 Support to preview refactoring changes for other refactorings than Rename Support preview a WorkspaceEdit #77728 @jrieken @mjbvz
• 🏃 Revisit rendering of completion items (richer completion labels) Consider showing completion item detail if available for all list items #39441 @octref @jrieken

LSP / LSIF

• 🏃 Investigate into support for optimized LSP transport of JSON payloads (gzip, MessagePack) issue @dbaeumer
• LSP protocol enhancements (symbol tags, links in diagnostic messages) @dbaeumer
• LSIF Web Page polish @dbaeumer

HTML/CSS

• 🏃 Improve auto-rename tag implementation by not relying on multiple cursors Improve mirror cursor implementation with Synced Regions #88424 @octref

TypeScript/JavaScript

• Adopt TS v3.8 Bundle TS 3.8 #91339 @mjbvz

Debug

• Improve the new js debugger (see query) @connor4312 @roblourens
• Add language service extension API for debug hovers (part of the language service/debugger investigation Investigate into using language service support for scope resolution #84044) @weinand
• 🏃 Allow debug extensions to provide configurations to display in Select and Start Debugging Allow debug extensions to provide configurations to display in Select and Start Debugging #88230 @weinand @isidorn
• Make initial debug / run view extensible Make run and debug welcome view extensible #85548 @isidorn
• Breakpoint improvements Breakpoints are not able to move to different sources on update #89756 DAP errors when setting breakpoints are not respected #89059 Asynchronously verified breakpoints are not always marked as "verified" within the UI #86749 @isidorn
• Improve console.group in Debug Console Improve console.group in Debug Console #34981 @isidorn
• Experiment whether renaming Debug -> Run in menu bar improves the debugger discoverabilty Rename "Debug" to "Run" #90445 @isidorn @miguel

DAP

• Support grouping in output events Support grouping in output events debug-adapter-protocol#96 @weinand
• Allow the placement of the cursor in a DAP completion item Allow the placement of the cursor in a DAP completion item debug-adapter-protocol#87 @weinand
• Proposal: Cancellable Progress Events Proposal: Progress Events debug-adapter-protocol#92 @weinand

SCM

• Improve SCM 'no repositories' view SCM: Viewlet should improve "no repositories" messaging #61491 @joaomoreno
• Provide File History view API support for Timeline view #84297 @eamodio

Terminal

• Improve support for Unicode 11 Adopt terminal unicode 11 support addon #90029 @Tyriar

Tasks

• 🏃 Automatic task detection improve feedback and support cancellation of long running detectors Improve quick pick for tasks since task providers can make it too slow. #90087 @alexr00

API

• API finalization: query
• API proposals: query
• Explore closer feedback loop with extension authors Explore closer feedback loop with extension authors #84506 @eamodio @fiveisprime

Web

• Provide registerCommand in the embedder API Web API: registerCommand() #90569 @bpasero

Extension Contributions

• Improvements to the Remote extensions (see plan here) team
• Contributions to Vetur https://github.com/vuejs/vetur/milestone/9 @octref

Engineering

• Notarization of VS Code builds for OS X/Catalina Investigate: macOS notarization #74782 @joaomoreno
• 🏃 Rewrite quick open with quick pick widget QuickOpen: Rewrite using quick input widget #69955 @bpasero @chrmarti
• Testing - run unit/integration across different browsers as part of our integration builds leveraging playwright @bpasero @jrieken
• Continue electron 7 adoption https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Aelectron-7-update @deepak1556 @bpasero
• Adopt enableStrictFunctionTypes enable strictFunctionTypes in VS Code codebase #81574 team
• Continuous building support of the Monaco editor CI for Monaco Editor compile and bundling. #84636 @alexdima @rebornix

Documentation

• Publish blog post about our custom data support Write a blog post for Custom Data #83928 @octref

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Deferred Items

• 🔴 Semantic coloring: implement API to color a range of a document @alexdima
• 💪 Explore supporting to customize workbench icons in file icon themes Allow configuration of product icons #79130 @aeschli @misolori
• 💪 Provide guidance for language servers for embedded languages Document guidelines to enable language features for embedded languages #47288 @octref @aeschli
• Explore node-free renderer processes Meta: experiment with node free render process #88549 @deepak1556
• 🔴 Identify which icons we use for dynamic sidebar views (caused by moving views) @misolori
• 🔴 Explore bracket pair colorizing performance improvements @alexdima
• 🔴 Explore how to enable 'working sets' as an extension @isidorn @bpasero @sandy081
• Improve the accessibility of the Differences view (F7) Using the file compare tool with screen readers needs some attention #88695 @isidorn
• 🔴 Endgame testing: Support to validate Test Plan Items @sandy081
• ✋ Investigate into support for downloading a folder from the browser to the desktop Web: Support a Download action on folder context menus in explorer #83579 @bpasero
• Productize the TypeScript LSIF indexer issues @dbaeumer
• Support for custom views with WebView contents Support WebViews in extension contributed custom views #83911 @alexr00

[jvesouza]

First of all forgive me if the comments are not relevant or if they are not in the right place.
I was excited by the fact that accessibility in linux is being taken into account by the VSCode accessibility team. I have been using orca for over 10 years and I believe that VSCode will greatly increase my productivity in this environment.

Here are some links that may help with research:

https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca/Chromium
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca
https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list

[isidorn]

@jvesouza Thank you very much for the pointers, let's continue the discussion here #90446

[Kroc]

Can I ask please that this issue be looked at this month? #87347 "New minimum width of panel is too wide on 1366px screen", this is making it awkward for laptop users

[jhpratt]

Can we please get someone to look into #23991? It's an issue that has been around for years and affects a number of people. It doesn't necessarily have to be fixed immediately; even having eyes on it would be an improvement.

[gazzar]

There's an editor item to "Improve the discoverability of the column selection support." This seems like a pointless waste of effort. Apart from column selection being already supported and documented, I actually don't see a lot of benefit to the current implementation of column selection in VSCode. Usually the point of column selection is to be able to move blocks of code, i.e. cut or copy the selection then paste it elsewhere in the code, but pasting columns basically doesn't work in VSCode. Until that is fixed, there is little benefit to improving discoverability of a feature that is only useful if you happen to want to delete columns of code and not also paste them back somewhere.