Iteration Plan for January 2019 #65570

This plan captures our work in late December and January. Although longer, we treat this iteration as a 4-week iteration because most of us will have time off over the holidays, and it will take us a little bit to get going again once we are back. We will ship our January Update in in early Feburary.

Endgame

• January 28, 2019: Code freeze for the endgame
• February 1, 2019: Endgame done

The endgame details for this iteration are tracked in #67225.

Plan Items

Below is a summary of the top level plan items.

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Roadmap

• Publish the 2019 roadmap Erich Gamma (@egamma) Kai Maetzel (@kieferrm)

Workbench

• Provide preview of flexible panel/sidebar layout Investigate to rewrite workbench layout using grid widget #50853 SteVen Batten (@sbatten) João Moreno (@joaomoreno)
• Support multi-line diagnostics messages in the Problems panel Multi-line diagnostics #1927 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
• Navigate through explorer by typing start of file/folder name Navigate through explorer by typing start of file/folder name #10026 Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn)
• Revisit the explorer context menu (cut, duplicate, open folder) Please add the file/folder cut command to the context menu and the releated shortcut. #61110 Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn) Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)

UX

• Update Octicons Update Octicons #65508 @misolori
• 🏃 Iconography re-design Inconsistent weight and use of color in iconography throughout UI #8017 @misolori

Terminal

• Support conpty on Windows Windows terminal issues caused by winpty #45693 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• Reflow text when terminal is resized Reflow terminal lines when resized #23688 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• Improve accessibility of the terminal Integrated terminal isn't accessible with JAWS and NVDA #59794 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)

Languages

• 🏃 Support semantic selections Expand selection functionality issues #4795 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
• 🏃 Support semantic selections in LSP Feature request: "document/extendSelection" for semantic selection language-server-protocol#613 Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
• Provide feedback on LSP tutorial Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer) Pine (@octref)

JavaScript/TypeScript

• Adopt TypeScript 3.3 Adopt TypeScript 3.3 #66175 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)

JSON

• Support semantic selections in JSON [json] support semantic selection #67232 Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli)

CSS/HTML

• Improve custom tags and properties in HTML Web Components support in HTML files #62976 Pine (@octref)
• Provide custom properties in CSS Custom Properties contribution for CSS #64164 Pine (@octref)
• Support semantic selections in CSS and HTML HTML / CSS / Less / SCSS semantic selection (balance inward/outward) #65925 Pine (@octref)

Debug

• Add support for data break points in the Debug Adapter Protocol Data breakpoints proposal debug-adapter-protocol#20 Andre Weinand (@weinand)
• Fully support input arguments for command variables in launch configs support "command" input variable type #64362 Andre Weinand (@weinand)
• Explore Debug API: Debug Config Provider to return launch configurations dynamically Debug Provider to return launch configurations 'in-memory' to the debugger #54212 Andre Weinand (@weinand)

Install

• Linux: Provide daily insider snaps João Moreno (@joaomoreno)

Extension Contributions

• 🏃 Migrate vscode-tslint to use tslint as a TS server plugin Todo typescript-tslint-plugin#1 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• GitHub PR extension Plan for January 2019 vscode-pull-request-github#762 Rachel Macfarlane (@RMacfarlane) Peng Lyu (@rebornix)
• Azure Account Extension: improve login flow Sign-in: Use browser for interactive sign-in vscode-azure-account#75 Christof Marti (@chrmarti)

Extensions

• Explore impact of Webview changes in electron 3.0 on extensions Matt Bierner (@mjbvz) Test webview extensions on electron 3.0 #63180
• Investigate to activate extensions after install without window reload alexandrudima Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081) Do not require a window reload after installing extension #66199
• 🏃 Support to install native dependencies when an extension is installed Support Platform Specific Extensions #23251 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
• vsce should block publishing extensions that use vscode as a dependency (should always be a devDependency) Prevent packaging vscode as a dependency vscode-vsce#319 João Moreno (@joaomoreno)

API

• Address "DefinitionLink:targetSelectionRange not working as expected" DefinitionLink targetSelectionRange not working as expected #58649 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
• Investigate generalized support for 'Fix All' [Api] Auto fix on save and fix all #62110 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)

Exploration

• 🏃 Explore support for developing on WSL Explore support for developing on WSL #63155 team

Engineering

• Electron 3.0 upgrade Explore update to Electron 3 #52629 Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
• 🏃 Explore Electron 4.0 upgrade Explore update to Electron 4 #61787 Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
• 🏃 Strict null checking VS Code Strict null checking VS Code #60565 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz) team
• Show startup performance times inside an editor Improve rendering for 'Developer: Startup Performance' #65400 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
• Support the adoption of the new Tree widget João Moreno (@joaomoreno)
  • Adopt new tree widget in the Explorer Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn)
  • Adopt new tree widget in the Peek widget Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
  • Adopt new tree widget in Search roblourens
  • Adopt new tree widget in Settings roblourens

Documentation

• Publish new extensibility documentation Plan to continue polish extension doc vscode-docs#2199 Pine (@octref) team
• 🏃 Revisit Javascript end user documentation Explore reorganizing js/ts docs vscode-docs#2190 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz) Greg Van Liew (@gregvanl)

Deferred Items

• 💪 Use browser logic for improved word navigation in CJK Feature request: Treat the Chinese text as a Chinese sequence when usingCtrl+Left/Right #50045 Peng Lyu (@rebornix)
• 💪 Explore flatting folder hierarchies in the explorer Explorer: Support compact folder rendering #41627 Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn) João Moreno (@joaomoreno)
• Improve Vetur roadmap Pine (@octref)
• Add support for custom execution in addition to ShellExecution and ProcessExecution Alex Ross (@alexr00)
• 💪 Welcome page improvements Explore improving UX for Welcome Page #63152 Christof Marti (@chrmarti) @misolori