Vscode: Iteration Plan for November 2019

[kieferrm]

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

Last month we focussed on getting our issue database back in shape and we made great progress. As this included bug fixing and debt work, unlike in other months, we'll start with feature work right away and skip our typical debt week. Unsurprisingly, November is densely packed with feature work all across VS Code. It stretched from addressing paper cuts all the way to big-rock items such as settings sync and more flexible workbench layout. You also see a new Web section. With the public availability of Visual Studio Online you can now use VS Code also in the browser and we'll surface any related future work on our iteration plans.

Endgame

• December 2nd, 2019: Endgame begins
• December 6th, 2019: Endgame done

The endgame details for this iteration are tracked in https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/85959.

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] :runner: Create a design toolkit for extension authors https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/83952 @misolori
• [ ] :muscle: Identify design inconsistencies with UI + JSON experiences https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/84309 @misolori

Workbench

• [ ] :runner: Support for custom editors https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/77131 @mjbvz @jrieken @bpasero
• [x] Compressed tree support in the explorer (merging sequences of single child directories in the Explorer) https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/41627 @joaomoreno
• [ ] :runner: Settings sync support (settings, extensions, key bindings, snippets) https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/2743 @sandy081
• [ ] :runner: Provide login support for settings sync https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/84332 @rmacfarlane
• [X] Use icon fonts for product icons https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/78889 @misolori @bpasero
• [x] Show SCM decorations in the minimap https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/20934 @rmacfarlane
• [x] Support search as you type across files https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/46326 @jacksonkearl
• [x] Support auto-expanding all search results in the search viewlet https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/83917 @jacksonkearl
• [x] Copy search results in a search-results editor https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/23931 @jacksonkearl
• [x] Filter by type in problems view https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/47354 @sandy081
• [x] Show problems only for current active file - https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/30038 @sandy081
• [x] Show current error in status bar - https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/20183 @sandy081
• [x] Improve trusted domain support for url shorteners https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/83731 @octref
• [ ] :runner: Allow to move sidebar views to the panel and vice versa https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/85164 @sbatten
• [x] Polish custom dialogs with long contents (such as the open url confirmation) @sbatten
• [x] Explore how to improve existing notebook implementations https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/84293 @rebornix

Editor

• [ ] :runner: Semantic coloring - VS Code Language API and implementation https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/77140 @alexandrudima
• [ ] :runner: Semantic coloring - Syntax tokens and theming https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/77133 @aeschli
• [x] Improve the editor release process with automated builds and tests monaco-editor#1668 @rebornix

Terminal

• [x] Experimental WebGL renderer https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/84949 @Tyriar

Languages

• [x] Finish Call Hierarchy navigation and align it with the find all references support https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/83419, https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/83274 @jrieken
• [x] Review and polish existing code navigation gestures, https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/83752 @jrieken
• [x] Run reference search when running go-to-symbol command on target, https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/73081 @jrieken
• [x] Show keybindings in Refactor menu https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/84101 @mjbvz
• [ ] :runner: Explore how extensions can announce all refactorings they support https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/82718 @mjbvz

LSP / LSIF

• [x] Finalize LSP spec version 3.15 @dbaeumer
• [x] Support Call Hierarchy navigation https://github.com/microsoft/language-server-protocol/issues/468 @dbaeumer

CSS/HTML/JSON

• [x] Improve performance of emmet in large html files https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/71996 @octref
• [x] Explore Saas variable completion across files https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/6734 @octref
• [x] Improve ranking of css properties based on statistics like chromestatus.com https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/3145 @octref
• [x] Improve performance of auto-rename tag (core or extension contribution) https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/47069 @octref
• [ ] :runner: Publish blog post about our custom data support https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/83928 @octref
• [x] Support SCSS Modules https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/81943 @octref

TypeScript/JavaScript

• [X] Adopt TS v3.7 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/83935 @mjbvz

Debug

• [x] Investigate into using language service support for scope resolution https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/84044 @weinand
• [x] Improve initial debug / run experience https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/84677 @isidorn @weinand
• [x] Debug console - Improve presentation of input/output https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/37363 @isidorn
• [x] Improve discoverability of 'Restart Frame' https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/84045 @isidorn
• [ ] :runner: Improve support for PWAs https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-pwa/issues/56 @connor4312 @roblourens

SCM

• [ ] :runner: Explore File History view https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/84297 @eamodio
• [ ] :runner: Investigate a more organic integration between GitLens with the core SCM https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/84300 @eamodio
• [x] Adopt FileSystemProvider API: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/55110 @joaomoreno

Extensions

• [x] Support extensions that can run locally and remotely (multiple extension kinds) https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/85036 @sandy081 @alexandrudima
• [x] Adopt new extension kind type in extensions (built in and published) https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/85819 team

API

• API finalization: query
• API proposals: query
• Closer engagement with the VS Code extension authors
  
  
  
  • [x] Make it easier for extension authors to follow our API workflow https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/84507 @eamodio @jrieken
  
  
  • [ ] :runner: Explore closer feedback loop with extension authors https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/84506 @eamodio
  
  

Extension Contributions

• [x] Improvements to the Remote extensions (see plan here) team
• [x] ESLint - Improve TypeScript integration and support #802 @dbaeumer
• [x] ESLint - Improve support for mono repositories https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-eslint/issues/745 @dbaeumer
• [x] ESLint - Improve Auto fix support https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-eslint/issues/154 @dbaeumer

Web

• [x] Improve support for Firefox and Safari @bpasero @rebornix
• [x] Improve support for mobile @rebornix
• [x] Support running VS Code Web out of sources aka yarn web @bpasero
• [x] Enrich yarn web by adding mock search provider, mock problems provider, custom task running, ... @bpasero
• [x] Provide hosted version of yarn web for issue validation https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/84485 @bpasero
• [x] Enrich yarn web by adding debug support @weinand

Engineering

• [ ] :runner: Notarization of VS Code builds for OS X/Catalina https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/74782 @bpasero @joaomoreno
• [x] Automatic signing of RPM packages https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/78727 @tyriar
• [x] Explore upgrade to electron 7 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/83796 @deepak1556
• [x] Identify the work required to use chrome process architecture https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/79138 @deepak1556
• [x] Adopt strictPropertyInitialization https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/78168 team
• [ ] :runner: Adopt enableStrictFunctionTypes https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/81574 team
• [ ] :runner: Implement revised issue triaging workflow https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/83125 @kieferrm @chrmarti
• [x] Improve build resubmission perf https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/85107 @joaomoreno

Planning

• [ ] :runner: Develop and publish the 2020 roadmap https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/84015 @egamma @kieferrm @chrisdias
• [ ] :runner: Collaborate with TS on their 2020 roadmap https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/84102 @mjbvz

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Deferred Items

• :runner: Increase automation for upgrading to newer Electron versions https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/77159 @deepak1556
• :runner: Convert native modules to NAPI https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/79137 @deepak1556
• :hand: Git: Adopt editor in SCM input: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/84831 @joaomoreno
• :muscle: Setting sync support in the default Settings editor https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/84431 @roblourens
• :muscle: Support for custom views with WebView contents https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/83911 @alexr00
• Add LSIF to the LSP portal @dbaeumer
• :muscle: Support semantic coloring in the spec LSP #18 @dbaeumer
• :muscle: Support semantic coloring in the LSP libraries LSP Libs #368 @dbaeumer
• Productize the TypeScript LSIF indexer issues @dbaeumer
• :runner: Allow attaching/detaching from the debug targets https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/79314 @weinand
• Debug console - Support for log grouping https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/34981 @isidorn
• :muscle: Debug console - Support to find text https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/4338 @isidorn

[cedric05]

it's nice including code --web as a feature.

[blizzardzheng]

will vs-code web opensource recently?

[bpasero]

Re yarn web: Please see https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_40#_test-vs-code-running-in-a-browser for docs.

[zeroidentidad]

hi, why update 1.40.2 for ubuntu is not available in repository but only can be downloaded on vs code website page?

[chrmarti]

@zeroidentidad It updated now. Please try again.

[zeroidentidad]

@chrmarti thanks, I check it out

[shanalikhan]

@kieferrm @chrmarti

I'm the author of Settings Sync extension. I wanted to know about the plans of integrating Settings Sync within code. I saw multiple tickets with that.

Are you guys going to develop full Sync solution within code inlcuding UX, API and backend provider ( like Gist in Settings Sync ) or the goal will be to provide the API access to authors to manage the backend providers

[Noiredd]

What about #12058, pretty please?

[sandy081]

@shanalikhan Current plan is to build end to end settings sync feature. Please see https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/2743#issuecomment-560116420 about the proposal.

[zhangzheyu2simple]

It will be great if support attaching to kubernetes container.

[NateLing]

i am coming

[J3m5]

It would be nice to see the multi-line tabs feature implemented soon.