Vscode: Iteration Plan for October 2019

[kieferrm]

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

This is our annual issue house keeping iteration. You'll see a large number of GitHub issue notifications over the course of this iteration. If you want to track our progress, the community has us covered: https://vscode-github-stats.netlify.com/

If you are interested in why we have issue house keeping iterations and in our general philosophy around issue management, then we have this write-up for you.

Endgame

• October 28th, 2019: Code freeze for the endgame
• November 1st, 2019: Endgame done

The endgame details for this iteration are tracked in TBD.

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 |

Housekeeping

• [ ] :runner: Issue/PR Grooming - review, categorization, assignment https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/82032 team
• [x] Design and document revised workflow of how we triage issues https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/83124 @kieferrm team
• [ ] :runner: Implement revised issue triaging workflow https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/83125 @kieferrm team

API

• API finalization: query

Engineering

• [x] :runner: Continue exploring upgrade to Electron 6.0 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/76069 @deepak1556
• [ ] :runner: Adopt strictPropertyInitialization https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/78168 team
• [ ] :runner: Adopt enableStrictFunctionTypes https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/81574 team

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Deferred Items

• All work that was in-flight end of September. We'll resume that work in early November.

[lijhello]

Still, please fix this for C++ Outline View. It's more important than all the other features like color scheme, font setting, etc..

Source Insight is not free and is windows only app. So this is your chance.

Adopt new DocumentSymbol API
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/issues/2230

[egamma]

@linuxjh this is the iteration plan for VS Code team and the VS Code editor. You are asking for a fix in an extension which is maintained by another team.

Please check the issue you are asking to be fixed... it has been fixed in the meantime, please see https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/issues/2230#issuecomment-536695862

[lijhello]

I tried the insider release but it failed to be installed

[lcswillems]

Is it planned to support TypeScript 3.7?

[DeltaRazero]

Hopefully we can see the upgrade to Electron 6 real soon, lots of good progress is being made :)

[crper]

explorer Electron 7 ? now latest

https://electronjs.org/

[yogeshkotadiya]

@crper Since Electron 7 is now out, Electron 8 Beta will start to roll out soon. So I think the team should start with Electron 8 and skip the 7 just like they did with v5 becasue as we can see it takes a lot of time to update VSCode to the new Electron version.

[ddzy]

I tried the insider release but it failed to be installed

Maybe you should reinstall your system😄