Vscode: Iteration Plan for July 2020

[kieferrm]

This plan captures our work in July. We will ship in early August. This is a 5-week iteration and it includes the Microsoft-wide Hackathon on July 27-29. Also, this is the start of the vacation season (July-August) and although not a lot of traveling is happening, our team still takes time off.

Endgame

• August 3rd, 2020: Endgame begins
• August 7th, 2020: Endgame done

The endgame details for this iteration are tracked in https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/103792.

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 |
| :black_large_square:| a large work item, larger than one iteration |

Accessibility

• [x] Accessibility issues, see query team
• [ ] :runner: Revisit navigation model of the settings UI https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/97567 @9at8
• [x] Community call (July 23rd) https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/102832 @sana-ajani @isidorn

Workbench

• [x] Manual Settings Sync UI https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/100426 @misolori @sandy081
• [ ] :runner: Use encrypted keychain for account management https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/95475 @rmacfarlane @sbatten
• [x] First run experience: Support initial view state for Custom Views https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/101283 and move the NPM Script Explorer to the View menu @alexr00
• [x] First run experience: Simplify Extensions View menu https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/100756 @sandy081
• [x] Use shadow DOM for custom context menu to preserve editor focus https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/98673 @sbatten

Tasks

• [ ] :runner: :muscle: Expose variable resolvers for CustomExecution tasks https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/81007 @alexr00

Notebook Editor

• [x] Support for interrupting cell execution https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/99203 @roblourens
• [x] Consolidate kernel support https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/101963 @rebornix
• [ ] :red_circle: :runner: Collaborate with language teams on notebook support @jrieken
• [x] Explore notebook webview crash https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/24344 @rebornix @deepak1556
• [x] Provide automated fuzzy tests for finding notebook layout issues https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/102541 @roblourens
• [x] Polish notebook behavior query @roblourens @rebornix
• [x] Support Jupyter-like cell folding https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/100308 @roblourens @misolori
• [x] Support splitting/joining of all cell types https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/102504 @rebornix
• [x] Provide editor inspired keybindings for cell operations out of the box https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/101436 @rebornix
• [x] Revise the renderer API surface (extension host and webview context) and package.json entry points https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/102644 @connor4312
• [x] Investigate into API gaps to support notebook diffing https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/94810 @rebornix
• [x] Investigate into API gaps to support Liveshare for notebooks https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/102503 @rebornix

Languages

LSP / LSIF

• [ ] :runner: Towards LSP version 3.16 @dbaeumer
• [x] Stabilize the LSIF TypeScript indexer @dbaeumer

TypeScript/JavaScript

• [x] Get ready for adopting TS 4.0 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/102919 @mjbvz

Debug

• [x] Address self-hosting debugging pain-points https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/100368 @connor4312
• [ ] :runner: Improve inline value https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/101797 @weinand
• [x] Expose a stopDebugging API https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/101883 @weinand
• [x] Investigate exposing DAP IDs of breakpoints in the vscode API https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/99716 @weinand

SCM

• [x] Simplify the Git '...' menu and introduce submenus https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/102109 (requires https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/100172) @joaomoreno
• [x] Offer to create fork if user has no commit rights on GitHub repository https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/102393 @joaomoreno
• [x] Make the GitHub repository picker available to other extensions https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/102394 @joaomoreno

API

• API finalization: query
• API proposals: query

Extension Contributions

• [x] Improvements to the Remote extensions https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/3347 team
• [x] Improvements to the GitHub PR and Issues extension, see query @alexr00
• [x] Improvements to the Hex editor extension https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-hexeditor/issues/76 @lramos15

Install

• [ ] :runner: Explore msix installer for VS Code on Windows https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/61793 @sbatten
• [x] Windows - add meta data for the uninstaller https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/73805 @joaomoreno

Engineering

• [x] Improve experimentation service https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/102620 @sbatten

Bots

• [ ] :hand: Make issue triaging extension available in browser store(s) https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-github-triage-extension/issues/2 @jacksonkearl

Electron

• [ ] :hand: Upgrade to electron 8/9 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/100731 @deepak1556

Node.js-free, sandboxed renderer :black_large_square:

Backlog: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/92164

• [x] Support for encodings in sandboxed/web environments (iconv-lite, jschardet) https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/79275 @bpasero
• [x] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/101850 add perf marks for web, enable perf view editor for web @jrieken
• [x] Remove dependency on node for startup path https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/98682 @deepak1556 @alexdima
  
  
  
  • [ ] Adopt V8 cached data option for browser windows @deepak1556
  
  
  • [x] Move off file:// protocol for serving static assets @deepak1556
  
  
• [ ] Minimal sandboxed version of the workbench with stubbed services @bpasero @deepak1556
  
  
  
  • [x] Make our bootstrap and preload files ready to run in sandbox and isolated mode @bpasero
  
  
• [ ] :hand: Enable sandbox: true and contextIsolation for some of our windows https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/101834 @deepak1556
  
  
  
  • [x] Issue reporter https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/101833 @rmacfarlane
  
  
  • [x] Process explorer https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/101832 @rmacfarlane
  
  

Documentation

• None.

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Deferred Items

• Undo/redo of workspace edit file operations, support linked undo operations, https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/101789 @alexdima @jrieken
• Explore tabular variables debug view requirements https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/100205 @weinand
• Improve existing Windows installer https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/102594 @lszomoru @joaomoreno
• :muscle: Investigate issues introduced by the Web UI stopped indication https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/100757 @weinand @isidorn
• :muscle: Provide guidelines for extension authors how to consume the GitHub authentication provider https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/100995 @rmacfarlane

[AdsonCicilioti]

Hi guys!

When will we have Sync Settings/Preferences in the main release?

[Tyriar]

@AdsonCicilioti we're aiming to ship it in stable as part of this version.

[AdsonCicilioti]

@AdsonCicilioti we're aiming to ship it in stable as part of this version.

Thanks @Tyriar!

[astrowonk]

Is there a plan to address any of the copious SCM single view feedback in #102118? A lot of us are sufficiently frustrated that we have stayed on 1.46.

[knynkwl]

This is the third most commented issue. Can we add this to the here or next patch? https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/519

[FaiyazMujawar]

When will v1.48 be released? And, will it be released with the new notebooks UI(not preview, as I cannot use it in stable! ) ? Moreover, I cannot find the variable explorer in the new insiders Notebooks UI, where to find it?

[racedaemon]

Not sure this is the place to report this, but this iteration is missing from Wiki > Project Management > Iteration Plans. Got me scared July was skipped but then I found out on Twitter about the launch party 🎉

[Tyriar]

@racedaemon fixed, thanks 🙂

[nicojmb]

Hi, "msix" installer will be available in this version?

[egamma]

1.48 has shipped - closing