Vscode: Iteration Plan for July 2019

[kieferrm]

This plan captures our work in July. This is a 5-week iteration. We will ship our July Update in early August.

During this iteration, we make last polishing changes to our new icons so that you can enjoy them in Insiders and Stable. We'll keep improving the minimap and add additional controls to the settings editor. The biggest chunk of our work though goes into engineering and improvements for extensions such as multi-selection in custom views, improving LSIF and DAB, and finalizing the custom data support in our HTML and CSS support.

Also it's July. As usual, we start to see members of our team to take time off. So, if you don't get responses from us as quickly as you're used to, imagine white ocean beaches or beautiful mountains.

Endgame

• July 29, 2019: Endgame begins
• August 2, 2019: Endgame done

The endgame details for this iteration are tracked in #78131.

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

• [x] Iconography re-design https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/8017 @misolori
• [ ] :runner: Update main extension icons to match new icon style https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/77411 @misolori

Workbench

• [ ] :runner: Implement workbench layout using grid widget https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/50853 @sbatten @joaomoreno
• [x] Provide built-in support for settings with values that are lists of strings https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/62440 @octref
• [x] Explore support for custom editors https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/77131 @mjbvz @jrieken

Accessibility

• [x] Fix actionable issues, see also https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/75840 @isidorn

Editor

• [x] Support multi-line decorations in the minimap https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/76133 @rmacfarlane
• [x] Explore improving presentation of search results in minimap (size, theme color) https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/76122 @rmacfarlane
• [ ] :runner: Revisit the tokenization implementation with the end goal to support asynchronous semantic coloring https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/77140 @alexandrudima
• [x] Provide setting for visually indicating whitespace in selections https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/1477 @rmacfarlane
• [x] Special rendering for diagnostics that mark deprecated code, https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/56694 @jrieken

Terminal

• [x] Add commands to focus the previous/next row when in screenreader mode https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/76050 @tyriar

Languages

LSP

• [x] Finalize LSIF spec v0.4 with support for partitioned index updating @dbaeumer https://github.com/microsoft/lsif-node/issues/60

CSS/HTML/JSON

• [x] Improve navigation for sass import statements https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/58204 @octref
• [ ] :runner: Finalize experimental custom data support https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/76914 @octref

Debug

• [x] Investigate VS Code UI for data breakpoints https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/58304 @weinand

API

• API finalization: query
• API proposals: query

Extension Contributions

• [x] 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

• [ ] :runner: Address electron 4.0 regressions (see query) @deepak1556
• [ ] :runner: Continue exploring upgrade to electron 6.0 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/76069 @deepak1556
• [x] Improve build performance https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/75983 @joaomoreno
• [x] Adopt new Tree implementation in Custom Views https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/63566 @alexr00 @sandy081
• [ ] :runner: Support flattened rendering of empty nodes to enable https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/41627 @joaomoreno
• [x] Provide tooling for GDPR code annotation extraction https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/75524 @lramos15
• [x] Migrate tasks to use TerminalVirtualProcess https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/76492 @alexr00
• [x] Finish resolveTask support https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/33523 @alexr00
• [x] Provide a solid engineering system for vscode-ripgrep https://github.com/roblourens/vscode-ripgrep/issues/26 @roblourens
• [x] Remove suppressImplicitAnyIndexErrors https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/76442 @mjbvz team
• [x] Investigate slow emmet activations https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/71381 @octref

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Deferred Items

• Support multi-selection in Custom Views https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/76941 @alexr00
• Explore theming support for semantic colors https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/77133 @aeschli
• Increase automation for upgrading to newer electron versions https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/77159 @deepak1556

[ghiscoding]

For the following 2 minimap enhancements, I believe the issue reference is #21404 that I mentioned in last month iteration.

🔴 Support multi-line decorations in the minimap @RMacfarlane
🔴 Explore improving presentation of search results in minimap (size, theme color) @RMacfarlane

Thank you

[ddzy]

Awesome!

[Chefdavone12]

Awesome can't wait to see the finished product 😁

[andremacola]

I do not know if this is the correct place but could please check the ticket #73828?
It is impossible to work with quotes and International keyboard as system language, specially with multicolumn selection.

[mysmlz]

The new icon looks good.

[gjsjohnmurray]

The related endgame is #78131. Maybe update the tbd in the issue description?