Remote: Iteration Plan for May 2020

[kieferrm]

This plan captures our work on the Remote development extensions in May. We follow the same iteration cycle as VS Code. Although we plan for a whole iteration, we not only ship at the end of an iteration but throughout.

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

Remote - Core

• Investigate how resolvers can access tokens provided by Authtentication Providers https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-internalbacklog/issues/1116 @RMacfarlane @alexdima
• Polish Remote Explorer Header Remote Explorer: when there is only one view, split view should not be present vscode#86037 @alexr00 @misolori
• Support to install a local extension into its preferrable location Can't install extension on the server from extension viewlet vscode#83675 @sandy081
• 🏃 Support to drag a file from a remote vscode window to a local window Can't drag files from a remote vscode window to a local window vscode#93599 @isidorn

Remote - SSH

• None.

Remote - Containers

• Gracefully handle missing image/dockerfile/dockerComoposeFile Handle missing image/dockerfile/dockerComposeFile with definitions picker #2937 @chrmarti
• 🏃 Provide postStartCommand, postAttachCommand; explore preDeleteCommand devcontainer.json property to execute a command whenever VS Code starts a container #2772 @chrmarti
• Explore speeding up container creation by caching extensions locally Docker: Extensions are always downloaded again #2227 @chrmarti
• Investigate support for signing commits when running in a dev container GPG Sign Commit when running in DevContainer #72 @chrmarti
• Enable Dockerfile/devcontainer.json iteration from repository containers, support to inspect a volume Enable Dockerfile/devcontainer.json iteration from repository containers - support to inspect a volume #2726 @egamma
• 🏃 Investigate into a devContainer.json for the VS Code project for running in a Codespace Add dev container definition for developing VS Code vscode-dev-containers#339 @Chuxel

Remote - WSL

• Remote-WSL user study (05/26) @fiveisprime

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Deferred Items from previous iteration(s)

• 💪 Provide an easy way to access a SSH devbox through Codespaces @roblourens