Vscode: Iteration Plan for June 2019

[kieferrm]

This plan captures our work in June. This is a 4-week iteration. We will ship our June Update in early July.

We'll focus on smaller, highly upvoted features such as improvements to the minimap, and we'll keep stabilizing and improving the remote development extensions.

Endgame

• June 24, 2019: Endgame begins
• June 28, 2019: Endgame done

The endgame details for this iteration are tracked in https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/75985.

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 |

UX

• [ ] :runner: Iconography re-design https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/8017 @misolori

Workbench

• [x] Support to hide/show status bar items contributed by extensions @bpasero https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/3874
• [x] Add support for indentation guides in trees https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/17777 @joaomoreno
• [x] Provide easy access to online services settings https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/75215 @rmacfarlane

Editor

• [x] :runner: Render search results in the editor minimap https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/75216 @rmacfarlane

Terminal

• [x] xterm.js improvements https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/74861 @tyriar
• [x] Investigate providing a clean environment for the terminal https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/70248 @tyriar

Git

• [x] Support watching files outside of the workspace https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/41085 @joaomoreno

Languages

CSS/HTML/JSON

• [x] Adopt latest LSP improvements https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/75271 @aeschli

TS

• [x] Provide support to easily use the nightly of TS inside VS Code @mjbvz https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/75222

Debug

• [x] Add 'Jump to Cursor' support https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/25653 @weinand @isidorn

API

• API finalization: query
• API proposals: query

Extension Contributions

• [ ] :runner: Improve getting started experience with the TS Lint extension https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-typescript-tslint-plugin/issues/99 @mjbvz
• [x] Improvements to the Remote extensions (see plan here) team

Engineering

• [x] Update to electron 4.0 @bpasero @deepak1556 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/61787
• [ ] :runner: Update to electron 6.0 @deepak1556 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/76069
• [x] Categorize/analyze currently open accessibility issues @isidorn https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/75840
• [ ] :runner: Explore providing tooling for GDPR code annotation extraction @lramos15 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/75524
• [x] Explore using TS for our GDPR code annotations @lramos15 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/75527

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Deferred Items

• Adopt new Tree implementation in Custom Views https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/63566 @alexr00 @sandy081
• Flatten folder hierarchies in the explorer https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/41627 @isidorn @joaomoreno
• :muscle: Provide setting for visually indicating whitespace in selections https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/1477 @rmacfarlane

LSP

• :runner: Add support for progress reporting for client initiated work https://github.com/microsoft/language-server-protocol/issues/70 and https://github.com/microsoft/vs-streamjsonrpc/issues/139 @dbaeumer
• :runner: Explore support for reporting partial results (e.g. workspace symbols) https://github.com/microsoft/vs-streamjsonrpc/issues/139 @dbaeumer

[ghiscoding]

@kieferrm
You mentioned minimap, is there a chance to look at this minimap enhancement issue #21404 that I opened 2.5 years ago?

Another topic that I'd like to see improvement, to be more user friendly, is the color picker especially this issue #33568

Keep up the good work, that is by far my favorite editor!

[pie6k]

🔴 🏃 Add support for indentation guides in trees @joaomoreno

here is missing issue reference

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/17777

[egamma]

@pie6k added the issue reference, thanks!

[NateLing]

Hi there. electron nightly version comes to v7, VSCode still use v4. come on , let's do something.

[Tyriar]

@NateLing it's missing on the plan but we're exploring Electron 6 support right now.

[kanlukasz]

@NateLing it's missing on the plan but we're exploring Electron 6 support right now.

Great to hear it. I hope that upgrading to the v. 6 will solve this annoying visual bug in Win10 - https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/74047

[beastdestroyer]

@kieferrm Gotta add #75985 endgame to top

[MommyMisty1]

Home sweet heart .