Iteration Plan for March 2023

[kieferrm]

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

Endgame

• March 20, 2023: Endgame begins
• March 24, 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:

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

Accessibility

• Dynamically update the terminal accessible buffer vscode#172582 @meganrogge
• Add symbol provider for terminal accessible buffer vscode#174079 @meganrogge
• Explore improviding accessibility for inline completions vscode#176501 @hediet @meganrogge
• Command palette placeholder text accessibility vscode#166920 @TylerLeonhardt
• Accessibility issues, see query @meganrogge @isidorn team

UX

• Refine updated built-in themes vscode#164924 @daviddossett
• 🏃 Explore improvements to the extensions list vscode#151599 @esonnino

Workbench

• 🏃 Built-in Profiles vscode#166359 @isidorn @sandy081 @esonnino
• 🏃 Explore surfacing the remote experiences on the welcome page vscode#173396 @bhavyaus
• 🏃 Introduce an experimental modal welcome for web experiences vscode#171190 @bhavyaus @joyceerhl @daviddossett
• 🏃 Improvements to Getting Started experience query @bhavyaus
• Make it easier to get sharing links vscode#175676 @joyceerhl
• Support parenthesis in context keys vscode#91473 @ulugbekna @jrieken
• Improve rendering of command palette when it is scrollable vscode#173851 @TylerLeonhardt
• Fix delay when opening the accounts menu vscode#111398 @TylerLeonhardt
• 🏃 Explore support for multiple GitHub accounts vscode#127967 @TylerLeonhardt
• Logging is slow in web vscode#172336 @sandy081

Code Editor

• Polish the interplay between intellisense and inline suggestions vscode#131940 @hediet @isidorn
• Add keyboard navigation to Sticky Scroll vscode#169107 @aiday-mar
• Allow configuring Sticky Scroll data provider vscode#162904 @aiday-mar
• Polish and enable async tokenization vscode#176499 @hediet
• ✋ Add elided text (editor core subset of vscode#170447) @hediet @alexdima
• Show markers at the top of editor hovers vscode#73120 @aiday-mar
• Scroll editor hovers using arrow keys vscode#69836 @aiday-mar
• 🏃 Make editor hovers resizeable vscode#14165 @aiday-mar
• 💪 Explore workaround for missing wheel event on iPad vscode#164220 @hediet
• Monaco Editor issue grooming @hediet
• Monaco Editor Release 0.36.1 @hediet

Notebook Editor

• 🏃 Polish and enable scrollable notebook outputs vscode-jupyter#4406 @amunger
• 💪 Align closing behavior of the Interactive Window with Untitled Files vscode#172974 @amunger
• Enable find in output by default vscode#174969 @rebornix
• 🏃 Explore how to stop hanging network request from preventing the opening of notebooks vscode#166860 @mjbvz
• Introduce global search options for open notebooks vscode#164926 @andreamah
• Introduce onWillSaveNotebookDocument event to support run or format on save vscode#157844, vscode#130799 @rebornix

Jupyter Notebooks

• Contributions to the vscode-jupyter extension vscode-jupyter#12994 team

WebAssembly Runtime Support

• 🏃 Prepare WASI implementation for WASM threads @dbaeumer
• 🔴 Translate core utils to WASM/WASI @connor4312
• 💪 Explore provide a web-shell shell-engine-js#1 @dbaeumer @Tyriar

Languages

Python

• Contributions to the python extension vscode-python#20796 @brettcannon team

Python WebAssembly Runtime Support

• 🏃 Explore support for statically linking and loading native modules @dbaeumer @brettcannon
• 🏃 ⬛ How do users find packages that work in CPython WASI? issue; @brettcannon

JavaScript/TypeScript

• 🏃 Automatic type acquisition on the web vscode#172887 @mjbvz
• 🏃 Project-wide IntelliSense on the web vscode#170920 @mjbvz
• 🏃 TypeScript 5.1 move to existing file support typescript#29988 @mjbvz
• 🏃 TypeScript 5.1 jsx mirror cursor support typescript#51832 @mjbvz

Source Control

• Git - Deprecate Repository.refs property to improve performance vscode#170838 @lszomoru

Terminal

• 🏃 Support external terminals as a default for WSL sessions vscode#167865 @Tyriar
• 🏃 Continue pwsh autocomplete vscode#154662 @Tyriar
• 🏃 Improvements to the environment collection API vscode#171173 vscode#171108 @karrtikr @Tyriar
• Provide API to set the terminal title and description vscode#171175 @karrtikr @Tyriar

Comments

• ReviewZoneWidget makes duplicate calls to show() + hide() vscode#174263 @alexr00

vscode.dev

• None.

API

• API finalization: query @jrieken @mjbvz
• API proposals: query @jrieken @mjbvz
• Remove the notebookControllerKind API Proposal vscode#168535 @mjbvz @rebornix
• Finalize static preloads notebook contribution vscode#163511 @mjbvz
• 🏃 Explore support for extensions to provide additional data to the issue reporter vscode#46726 @TylerLeonhardt

Extensions

• Improve user experience when installing an extension fails with signature verification vscode#173685 @sandy081
• Support extension recommendation based on regex matching file contents vscode#176768 @sandy081

Extension Contributions

• Improvements to the Remote extensions vscode-remote-release#8139 @eleanorjboyd @chrmarti @aeschli @joyceerhl @connor4312
• 🏃 Exploration: Re-think PR creation flow vscode-pull-request-github#4403 @alexr00 @daviddossett
• ✋ 🏃 Add Team Reviewers to Pull Request vscode-pull-request-github#1126 @alexr00
• Make it very obvious when the rate limit has been hit vscode-pull-request-github#4546 @alexr00
• Have a setting for enabling auto merge by default vscode-pull-request-github#4308 @alexr00
• Allow me to checkout a PR in vscode.dev from the GHPRI PR view vscode-pull-request-github#4500 @alexr00 @joyceerhl
• 💪 Respect git's pullBeforeCheckout setting for githubPullRequests.postCreate vscode-pull-request-github#4450 @alexr00

Performance

• Defer eager activation events till initial events have settled vscode#171135 @joyceerhl
• ✋ ⬛ PGO for VSCode Desktop vscode#170931 @deepak1556
• 🏃 UI stalls and freezes when searching single whitespace vscode#171436 @andreamah

Install

• Update snap package to use base: vscode#119436 @deepak1556

Engineering

Electron

• 🏃 ⬛ Update to Electron 22 vscode#166265 @deepak1556 @bpasero @rzhao271
• Electron Upgrades-WG roll champion (03/13 - 03/20) @deepak1556
• 💪 Orca can't be stopped in native dialogs vscode#121811 @deepak1556
• 💪 Right Click acting abnormal vscode#113175 @deepak1556

Documentation

• Update source control documentation to include the merge editor vscode-docs#5618 @gregvanl @hediet
• Review and update Terminal Basics (git bash setup from verbatims) vscode-docs#6108 @gregvanl

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Deferred

• ⚫ Add support for running macros vscode#871 @ulugbekna
• ⚫ Add support for recording macros vscode#4490 @ulugbekna
• 🔴 UX to alert users of a slow remote connection @bpasero
• 🔴 Sandboxing: Investigate increased extension host crash rate in stable @bpasero @deepak1556 @digitarald
• Explore smart global search for notebooks in the workspace vscode#173726 @andreamah
• Git Status Updates Are Blocking vscode#168453 @lszomoru
• SCM - Add document property to expose the text document vscode#171504 @lszomoru
• Opening vscode.dev should not require a browser reload to update web extensions vscode#174682 @sandy081
• Adopt utility process in terminal/pty host vscode#175335 @Tyriar @bpasero
• 🔴 Explore improvements on how to manage accounts @esonnino
• 🔴 Publish ProtoPie interactive components file for VS Code extensions @esonnino
• 💪 Explore migrating from AMD to ESM vscode#160416 @jrieken @alexdima
• 🏃 Defer onStartupFinished activation vscode#164593 @joyceerhl
• 🔴 💪 Investigate slow stacks reported to telemetry, ramp up the experiment @jrieken
• Improving the developer experience for the CLI within the vscode repo vscode#171515 @aeschli @connor4312
• 💪 Stabilize DocumentPasteEditProvider API to support pasting images vscode#30066 @mjbvz

[abhijit-chikane]

Looks like vscode roadmap hasn't updated. Would love to see what's in the vscode roadmap.
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Roadmap

[zm-cttae]

#174286 - would it help this PR go On Deck if I wrote full testing plan? Would be quite similar to #143636 to be honest

EDIT: I see iteration-plan label is up now so we're not getting the feature tested until April, but that's okay! 💚🔕