Vscode: Iteration Plan for April 2018

[kieferrm]

This plan captures our work in April. This is a 4-week iteration. We will ship our April Update in early May. The highlights include: a preview of a more flexible editor layout (since we didn't get to it in March), a better experience when changing settings, and several new APIs for extension authors.

Endgame

• April 23th: Code freeze for the endgame
• April 27th: Endgame done

The endgame details for this iteration are tracked in #48372.

Plan Items

Below is a summary of the top level plan items.

Legend of annotations:

| Mark | Description |
| ------------- | ------------- |
| :runner: | work in progress |
| :hand: | blocked task |
| :muscle: | stretch goal for this iteration |
| :red_circle: | missing issue reference |
| :large_blue_circle: | more investigation required to remove uncertainty |
| :black_circle: | under discussion within the team |

Install

• [ ] :runner: :muscle: Provide a VS Code snap package #5458 @tyriar

Workbench

• [ ] :runner: Preview for grid layout for editors #14909 @bpasero
• [ ] :runner: Explore improving settings experience #41040 @roblourens
• [x] Explore enabling view contributions to the activity bar #43645 @sandy081
• [x] Unbundle bundled language packs #45663 @dbaeumer @sandy081 @ramya-rao-a
• [x] Quick box improvements for multi-step inputs #48116 @chrmarti
• [x] Problems view support to exclude errors for some files/folders #22289 @sandy081

Editor

• [x] Ship a new version of the Monaco editor @alexandrudima @rebornix

Terminal

• [ ] :runner: Enable multi-plexing of terminals #46192 @tyriar

Source Control

• [x] Support custom view contributions to the Git viewlet #45686 @joaomoreno
• [x] Provide a protocol handler that clones a git repository and opens VS Code #45685 @joaomoreno

Languages

JavaScript/TypeScript

• [x] Adopt TypeScript 2.8.x #48008 @mjbvz
• [x] Explore moving Organize Import to be a code action #46647 @mjbvz
• [x] Support Organize Import on save #46678 @mjbvz
• [x] Provide an NPM script explorer view that can run/debug scripts as tasks @egamma

CSS/HTML/JSON

• [x] Support regions in CSS folding provider #46591 @octref
• [x] Polish path completion #46644 #46639 @octref
• [x] :muscle: Explore how to provide cross-file $ variable completions in SCSS and LESS #6734 @octref
• [x] Investigate how to use MDN data to power our language servers Microsoft/vscode-css-languageservice#68 @octref @aeschli
• [x] :muscle: Explore how users could extend CSS support through settings #47775 @octref
• [x] Expose API from JSON language server vscode-json-languageservice#18 @aeschli
• [x] Restrict handling to documents with file: and untitled: schemes #48777 @octref
• [x] Make the supported schemes explicit for JSON @egamma

Markdown

• [x] Restrict handling to documents with file: and untitled: schemes #48777 @mjbvz

Extensions

• [x] Extension install - detect incomplete installations @sandy081
• [x] Document what document URIs extensions should handle @jrieken
• [x] Review and ensure that bundled extensions handle non file based resource schemes @team
• [x] Add a resource scope for global settings @sandy081

Extension Contributions

• [x] Sublime configuration settings importer #45984 @tsalinger @sandy081

Debug

• [x] Polish LogPoints support #46821 @isidorn
• [x] Provide setting to enable/disable show value hover only #47466 @isidorn
• [x] Launch Debug Adapters in extension host #45129 @weinand

API

• [x] Provide API to register a protocol handler #45685 @joaomoreno
• [x] Finalize the FileSystemProvider API #47475 @jrieken
• [x] Finalize FoldingProvider API #47808 @aeschli
• [ ] :runner: Consolidate Debug Adapter launch API @weinand
• [x] Finalize WebView API #43713 @mjbvz @jrieken
• [x] Finalize Task execution API @dbaeumer
• [x] Make it easier for extension authors to deal with non-file-based URI schemes #21886 @jrieken
• [x] Explore support to resolve an unresolved response items (completions, code lens) when using the language API through commands #44846 @jrieken

Serviceability

• [x] Process explorer as a separate renderer window #41045 @rmacfarlane

Engineering

• [x] Continue adoption of electron 2.0 @tyriar @bpasero
• [x] Automate adoption of new electron builds @bpasero
• [x] Move off spectron for the smoke test #47471 @joaomoreno

Documentation

• [ ] :runner: Continue to refresh videos on the website #45924 @auchenberg

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Deferred Items

• :runner: Allow user level installs on Windows #534 @joaomoreno
• :runner: Finalize API to support computing definition locations #10037 @mjbvz
• Provide API for hierarchical document symbols, to enable early adopters @jrieken

[RoyTinker]

@kieferrm Any updates on floating window support plans? I'm seriously considering buying a bottle of champagne to have on hand, just in case!

🍾

EDIT: This is _really_ great, by the way -- #14909 actually does offer a path forward for a lot of folks voting on #10121 -- all we need to do is use a 4k monitor! 😂

[corbinu]

Quick comment. I am a lurker who likes to read these each month. However had a hard time finding this one as it is not part of the April Milestone

[pallapo]

@bpasero we need feature #14909 !!!!!
We neeeeeeed it!!!!
;-))

[RoyTinker]

:-D