Vscode: Iteration Plan for November 2018

[kieferrm]

This plan captures our work in November. This is a 5-week iteration. We will ship our November Update - the last of the year - in the first half of December. As in 2018, there will be no update in early January 2019. The next major update will be in early February 2019.

We have a full plan stretching from polishing functionality that we introduced earlier such as reference lists and multi-line search, to smaller productivity features such as Commit & Push, all the way to getting ready for electron 3.0 and adopting the new tree implementation throughout our code base. We also start exploring what it takes to make developing on WSL on Windows more natural. Some of us will also eat a lot in the middle of the iteration.

Endgame

• December 3, 2018: Code freeze for the endgame
• December 7, 2018: Endgame done

The endgame details for this iteration are tracked in #64182.

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 |

Workbench

• [ ] :runner: Explore flexible panel/sidebar layout https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/50853 @sbatten @joaomoreno
• [x] Polish viewlet that shows search reference results https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/22261 @jrieken
• [x] Improve multiline search experience https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/62304, https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/62961 @roblourens
• [x] Support overflow in custom menubar and menus https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/52533 https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/57756 @sbatten
• [x] Enable custom menubar on Linux by default https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/62727 @sbatten
• [x] Improve rendering of diagnostics in hovers and F8 https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/62370 @sandy081
• [x] Explore deprecating the old settings editor https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/62964 @roblourens

UX

• [x] Explore streamlining design for hovers, completion items, signature help https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/63144 @misolori
• [x] Explore welcome page improvements https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/63152 @misolori

Monaco Editor

• [x] Publish a new editor version @alexandrudima

Tasks

• [x] Support input parameters for Tasks https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/4758 @alexr00
• [x] Support to start a task automatically https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/17147 @alexr00
• [x] Explore to automatically attach problem matcher when running in the terminal https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/62937 @alexr00

Source Control

• [x] Support one-step action Commit & Push https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/62058 @joaomoreno
• [x] Provide option to open file on single click from SCM viewlet https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/63005 @joaomoreno

Languages

• [ ] :runner: Improve expand selection support https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/4795 @jrieken
• [x] Add "Go to Declaration" feature #62483 @jrieken
• [x] Add go-to-declaration request to LSP https://github.com/Microsoft/language-server-protocol/issues/605 @dbaeumer

JavaScript/TypeScript

• [x] Adopt TS version 3.2 @mjbvz https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/63179
• [x] Allow VS Code extensions to configure TS Server plugins https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/63181

CSS/HTML

• [ ] :runner: Support custom tags and properties in HTML and CSS https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/62976 @octref

Debug

• [x] Loaded Scripts view improvements (observing changes, explore filtering based on new tree) https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/62939 @weinand
• [x] Polish multi-debug console support https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/62419 https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/62418 https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/62420 @isidorn
• [x] Explore supporting data break points https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/58304 @weinand
• [x] Explore minimal multi-step quick pick providing guidance for creating launch configs https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/62851 @isidorn
• [x] Investigate issues with debugging apps generated with create-react-app https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/60187 @roblourens
• [x] Enable Smart Step by default https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/62965 @roblourens

Extension Contributions

• [ ] :runner: Migrate vscode-tslint to use tslint as a TS server plugin https://github.com/Microsoft/typescript-tslint-plugin/issues/1 @mjbvz
• [x] GitHub PR extension https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-pull-request-github/issues/678 @rebornix @rmacfarlane

Extensions

• [x] Support installing the previous version of an extension https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/12764 @sandy081

API

• [x] Help extensions moving off the htmlPreview https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/62630 command @mjbvz
• [x] Explore alternatives to FileIndexProvider https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/59922 @roblourens
• API finalization: query
• API proposals: query

Serviceability

• [x] Identify extensions causing the extension host to be unresponsive, provide support for generating a CPU profile, hint user about the performance problem caused by the extension. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/60332 @jrieken
• [x] Support to start debugging directly from within the process explorer https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/63147 @rmacfarlane

Exploration

• [ ] :runner: Explore support for developing on WSL https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/63155 @alexandrudima team

Engineering

• [x] Continue Electron 3.0 adoption, migrate local storage https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/52629 @bpasero
• [x] WinJS.Promise removal https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/53526 @jrieken team
• [ ] :runner: Strict null checking VS Code https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/60565 @mjbvz team
• [x] Document new Tree widget implementation (https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/wiki/Lists-And-Trees) @joaomoreno
• Support the adoption of the new Tree widget @joaomoreno
  
  
  
  • [ ] :runner: Adopt new tree widget in Search @roblourens
  
  
  • [ ] :runner: Adopt new tree widget in Settings @roblourens
  
  
  • [x] Adopt new tree in peek references ui @jrieken https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/63904
  
  
  • [ ] Adopt new tree widget Outline @jrieken
  
  
  • [x] :runner: Adopt new tree widget in the debugger @isidorn, @weinand
  
  

Documentation

• [ ] :runner: Continue extensibility documentation improvements https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-docs/issues/2199 @octref team

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Deferred Items

• Revisit the explorer context menu (cut, duplicate, open folder) https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/61110 @isidorn @bpasero
• :muscle: Explore flatting folder hierarchies in the explorer https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/41627 @isidorn @joaomoreno
• Explore Debug API: Debug Config Provider to return launch configurations dynamically https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/54212 @weinand
• Adopt new tree widget in the workbench @isidorn
• Support a post install/update hook for extensions https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/23251 @sandy081 @joaomoreno
• Explore generalizing NPM Script Explorer into a Task runner view https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/28235 @alexr00
• :muscle: Use browser logic for improved word navigation in CJK https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/50045 @rebornix
• Explore impact of Webview changes in electron 3.0 on extensions @mjbvz https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/63180
• :muscle: Revisit Javascript end user documentation @mjbvz @gregvanl https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-docs/issues/2190

[beastdestroyer]

Explore welcome page improvements #56144

[BartolomeSintes]

Please, don't remove the old settings editor (last item in the workbench section of this month's plan). It is easier to copy and paste all the settings at once (from one workspace to another) than modify one by one.

[roblourens]

We will never get rid of editing settings with a JSON file. The issue is just about the UX we have around the json settings editor (pencil icon to edit, search bar, etc).

[vSanjo]

The search bar is a little annoying in settings.json view. I'd rather be looking through my settings I've set over the settings I have available. Perhaps a toggle between the two?

[jtcontreras90]

CSS/HTML
- [ ] Support **support** for custom tags and properties in HTML and CSS #62976 @octref

[myfairsyer]

There's an issue for the endgame: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/64182

[kieferrm]

Shipped.