Iteration Plan for August 2023

[kieferrm]

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

Endgame

• August 28, 2023: Endgame begins
• September 1, 2023: Endgame done

The endgame details for this iteration are tracked here.

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

Accessibility

• Support go-to-symbol in the accessible view vscode#188702 @meganrogge
• Support actions in the accessible view vscode#189486 @meganrogge
• Allow to include the name of the focused view in the window title vscode#97790 @meganrogge
• Accessibility issues, see query @meganrogge team

UX

• Provide options for custom icons/colors for profiles vscode#188972 @hbons
• Explore anchored Quick Pick component vscode#189030 @hbons
• Improve editor toolbar toggle states vscode#186403 @hbons

Workbench

• Implement unfocused view dimming vscode#30522 @Tyriar
• 🏃 Explore support for multiple GitHub accounts vscode#127967 @TylerLeonhardt
• 🏃 Add proxy support to http2 requests in the extension host vscode#185098 @chrmarti
• Submenu entries hover state should not be sticky vscode#187195 @sbatten
• Explore using watchman as backend for file watching vscode#156964 @bpasero
• Avoid inspecting all settings during settings editor load vscode#179486 @rzhao271
• Explore showing workspace search results in the command center vscode#189964 @andreamah

vscode.dev

• None.

Code Editor

• Polish moved source code detection and rendering vscode#187432 @hediet
• Reduce merge conflicts by diffing both inputs against each-other vscode#157496 @hediet
• 🏃 Explore multiple diff editors in a single scrolling editor for PR diff reviewing vscode#179000 @hediet @lszomoru @bpasero

Notebook Editor

• 🏃 Polish notebook sticky scroll rendering vscode#188703 @Yoyokrazy
• Support word highlight across notebook cell vscode#184259 @Yoyokrazy
• 💪 Support trim trailing whitespace/empty lines in notebook cells vscode#181905 @Yoyokrazy
• Support Copy Output through command/contextmenu vscode#187152 @amunger
• Handle missing language support in notebook cell vscode#187516 @amunger
• 🏃 Explore support code cell symbols in Go to Symbols (sort using :) vscode-jupyter#13930 @amunger
• 💪 Explore scroll position improvement on execution vscode#169038 @amunger
• Support searching output cells notebooks in the workspace vscode#189564 @andreamah

Jupyter Notebooks

• Contributions to the vscode-jupyter extension vscode-jupyter#14069@rebornix team

WebAssembly Support

• Continue work on the Wit Parser / AST vscode-wasm#52 @dbaeumer
• Investigate executing C# in the browser using WASM/WASI vscode-wasm#112@dbaeumer

Languages

Python

• Contributions to the python extension vscode-python#21771 @brettcannon team

JavaScript/TypeScript

• Automatic type acquisition on the web vscode#172887 @mjbvz
• Merge in initial prototype from TS vscode#182801 @mjbvz

Language Server Protocol

• None.

Markdown

• 🏃 Add smart pasting of markdown URLs vscode#186289 @MeghanKulkarni
• 🏃 Add drop/paste for css vscode#189875 @MeghanKulkarni

Source Control

• None.

Terminal

• Add API to set terminal prompt prefix via Environment variable collection vscode#188969 @karrtikr
• Finalize API for scoped environment variable collection vscode#171173 @karrtikr
• Add option to disable terminal restoration vscode#39137 @Tyriar
• Faster DOM renderer vscode#189405 @Tyriar
• Toggle to disable bracketed paste mode permanently vscode#187480 @Tyriar

Testing

• 🏃 Explore improvements to Mocha testing vscode#189680 @connor4312

Debug

• 🏃 Support debugging WASM files in JavaScript vscode-js-debug#1789

API

• 🏃 Explore ShareableDataProvider API vscode#176316 @joyceerhl
• 🏃 Finalize port attributes API vscode#115616 @alexr00
• API proposals: query @jrieken @mjbvz
• API finalization: query @jrieken @mjbvz

Extensions

• Extension packs should not open multiple welcome pages vscode#188104 @bhavyaus
• Add tunnel activation event vscode#188730 @alexr00
• 💪 Explore support for extensions to provide additional data to the issue reporter vscode#46726 @TylerLeonhardt

Extension Contributions

• Improvements to the Remote extensions vscode-remote-release#8807 @roblourens @chrmarti @connor4312 @joyceerhl

Documentation

• Review and update Command Line Interface (CLI) topic vscode-docs#6435 @gregvanl
• Review and update Configure C++ Debugging topic vscode-docs#5518 @gregvanl
• 🏃 Scaffold "Custom Layout" document vscode-docs#6393 @gregvanl

Engineering

• Clean up CLI build vscode#178691 @connor4312
• ✋ Use Terrapin instead of crates.io. Artifacts support for Cargo is now available in DevOps #4353 @connor4312
• Ship separate third party notice with CLI download vscode#178691 @connor4312
• 🏃 Adopt StorageScope.WORKSPACE and StorageTarget.USER in workbench vscode#183449 @joyceerhl team

Electron

• Update to Electron 25 vscode#184021 @deepak1556
• Crash when closing macOS tab vscode#167936 @deepak1556

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Deferred

• Improve default theme diff colors for users with colorblindness vscode#182173 @hbons
• Explore improvements to notifications for users using screenreaders vscode#183567 @hbons
• Update color token architecture and themes in Figma toolkit vscode-figma-toolkit#9 @hbons
• Explore notification management UX for specific extensions vscode#41767 @daviddossett
• ✋ PGO for VSCode Desktop vscode#170931 @deepak1556
• 🏃 Improve the keybinding recording widget vscode#178042 vscode#179015 vscode#179018 @ulugbekna
• Explore simplifying the account menu for built-in online services vscode-internalbacklog#3271 @TylerLeonhardt @sandy081 @aeschli
• 🏃 Stabilize DocumentPasteEditProvider API to support pasting images vscode#30066 @mjbvz

[zhouxinghong]

https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v26.0.0
Fixes a lot of bugs included Electron 25 version

[burtek]

@kieferrm quick note, the iteration plan is duplicated (copy-pasted twice?) in your message