Remote: Iteration Plan for August 2023

[kieferrm]

This plan captures our Remote work in August 2023. We follow the same iteration cycle as VS Code. Although we plan for a whole iteration, we may not only ship at the end of an iteration but throughout.

Plan Items

Below is a summary of the top level plan items.

Legend of annotations

Mark	Description
🏃‍♀️	work in progress
✋	blocked task
💪	stretch goal for this iteration
🔴	missing issue reference
🔵	more investigation required to remove uncertainty
⚫	under discussion within the team
⬛	a large work item, larger than one iteration

Core

• None.

Dev Container Specification / CLI

• Update dev container docs and Templates on prebuilds devcontainers/spec/issues/261, vscode-internalbacklog/issues/4456 @bamurtaugh

Dev Containers Extension

• Explore helping to install docker inside WSL vscode-remote-release#8641 @chrmarti

Remote-SSH

• Roll-out exec server implementation of the SSH resolver vscode-remote-release#8747 @connor4312

WSL

• Support WSL over SSH (on WSL2 pre-release) vscode-remote-release#8747 @connor4312

Remote-Tunnel

• ✋ 🏃 Support AAD auth for dev tunnels @connor4312
• Support local port privacy options vscode#189677 @connor4312
• Local port forwarding should be built-in vscode#189678 @connor4312
• Local port forwarding should notify about resource usage limits vscode#189679 @connor4312
• Auto forwarded ports should be restored vscode-remote-release#8638 @alexr00

Remote Repositories

• Improvements to the GitHub Repositories extension query @joyceerhl

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Deferred

• None.