Iteration Plan for November 2023 #197438

This plan captures our work in November. This is a 5-week iteration. We will ship in early December.

Endgame

• November 27, 2023: Endgame begins
• December 1, 2023: Endgame done

The endgame details for this iteration are tracked here.

Plan Items

Below is a summary of the top level plan items.

Legend of annotations:

Accessibility

• 🏃 Show icon only button tooltips vscode#132344 Megan Rogge (@meganrogge)
• Accessibility issues, see query Megan Rogge (@meganrogge) team

UX

• Improve built-in walkthroughs vscode#197503 David Dossett (@daviddossett)

Workbench

• Allow for floating windows vscode#10121 Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero) Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• 🏃 Explore the ability to hide problem markers throughout the workbench vscode#166797 Justin Chen (@justschen)
• Tree: Support sticky scroll vscode#161207 Benjamin Christopher Simmonds (@benibenj)

Code Editor

• Fix hanging UI when code action widget has many entries vscode#196857 Justin Chen (@justschen)
• Address poor code actions sort order with multiple fixes on same line vscode#197162 Justin Chen (@justschen)
• Migrate users from from boolean-based code actions on save to enum vscode#197161 Justin Chen (@justschen)
• Multi File Diff Editor vscode#179000 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
• Support dynamic line heights using decorations vscode#194609 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet) Alexandru Dima (@alexdima)

Comments

• None.

Notebook Editor

• 🏃 Explore built-in "variable explorer" notebook functionality vscode#165445 Aaron Munger (@amunger)
• 🏃 Multi-document highlighter API proposal and enhancements vscode#184259 Michael Lively (@Yoyokrazy)
• Support picking tab vs spaces in notebook cell editor vscode#108675 Michael Lively (@Yoyokrazy)

Jupyter Notebooks

• Kernel API finalization Don Jayamanne (@DonJayamanne)
  • API proposal and adoption plans for 3rd party extensions vscode-jupyter#14669
  • Explore UX for code execution permissions for third-party extensions vscode-jupyter#14669
• Explore enabling Non-Python kernel auto complete vscode-jupyter#14672 Don Jayamanne (@DonJayamanne)
• 💪 Explore Kernel Picker experience in Dev Containers vscode-jupyter#14673 Don Jayamanne (@DonJayamanne) Peng Lyu (@rebornix)
• Support module import/usage analysis in Run Dependent Cells vscode-jupyter#14674 Peng Lyu (@rebornix) w/ Pylance team

WebAssembly Support

• 🏃 Investigate compile C# code in the browser to IL using dotnet.wasm vscode-wasm#112 Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
• Test the threading support in Python WASM vscode-wasm#148 Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
• 🏃 Support WASI preview2 vscode-wasm#52 Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)

Languages

Python

• Contributions to the python extension, see plan Brett Cannon (@brettcannon) team

Language Server Protocol

• 🏃 LSP support to 3rd-parties vscode-python#21964 Karthik Nadig (@karthiknadig)

Source Control

• Ahead/behind view in SCM view container vscode#192290 Ladislau Szomoru (@lszomoru)

Tasks

• None.

Terminal

• Sticky scroll in the terminal vscode#172742 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• 💪 Explore quick fixes attached to rows in sticky scroll vscode#198116Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• Highlight terminal commands subtly when mousing over them vscode#196634 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)

Testing

• 🏃 Design test coverage API vscode#123713 Connor Peet (@connor4312)
• API for selected run profiles (playwright ask) vscode#193160 Connor Peet (@connor4312)
• Support find in the test output panel vscode#193589 Connor Peet (@connor4312)

Debug

• Rust-based heap snapshot tooling vscode-js-debug#1855 Connor Peet (@connor4312)
• Investigate extension point for data visualization vscode#197287 Connor Peet (@connor4312)

API

• API proposals: query Johannes Rieken (@jrieken) Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• API finalization: query Johannes Rieken (@jrieken) Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)

Extensions

• Support finer-grained control over extension auto-updates vscode#194188 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)

Extension Contributions

• GHPRI: Support merge queues vscode-pull-request-github#5402 Alex Ross (@alexr00)
• 💪 Allow users to resolve merge conflicts from PR view vscode-pull-request-github#1562 Alex Ross (@alexr00)
• Improvements to the Remote extensions, see plan roblourens Christof Marti (@chrmarti) Connor Peet (@connor4312) Joyce Er (@joyceerhl)

Documentation

• None.

Engineering

• Gather heap metrics from CI vscode#191920 Connor Peet (@connor4312)
• ✋ Deprecate macOS 10.13, 10.14 vscode#192897 Robo (@deepak1556)
• Update build agent distros vscode-linux-build-agent#41 Robo (@deepak1556)

Electron

• Update to Electron 27 vscode#196941 Robo (@deepak1556)
• 🏃 Wire Electron.net API into the utility process vscode#192899 Robo (@deepak1556)
• 🏃 WCO on Windows leaves no room for resizing horizontally/diagonally vscode#185249 Raymond Zhao (@rzhao271)

Deferred

• Polish unfocused dimming feature vscode#191775 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• Fix custom ZMQ build for Linux ARM32/ARM64 vscode-jupyter#14070 Don Jayamanne (@DonJayamanne)
• Adopt canonical URI Provider API for workspace trust vscode#180582 SteVen Batten (@sbatten)
• Automatic type acquisition on the web vscode#172887 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• 🏃 Explore support for multiple GitHub accounts vscode#127967 TylerLeonhardt
• 🏃 Add smart pasting of markdown URLs vscode#186289 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• 🏃 Add drop/paste for css vscode#189875 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• Support keyboard navigation between groups in quick picks vscode#149046 TylerLeonhardt
• 🏃 Improve Profiles Management UX vscode#192387 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081) Hylke Bons (@hbons)