Remote: Iteration Plan for June 2020

[kieferrm]

This plan captures our work on the Remote development extensions in June. We follow the same iteration cycle as VS Code. Although we plan for a whole iteration, we 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

Remote - Core

• Remote Explorer Help & Feedback: Allow to contribute commands in addition to URIs Change remoteHelp to accept a command vscode#99661 @alexr00
• 🏃 Investigate into automatic port forwarding based on output Investigate whether we should automatically forward ports based on output #3235 @alexr00

Remote - SSH

• Explore using sockets on the server side and forward those to the client Have remote server listen on socket instead of port for ssh #3234 @roblourens

Remote - Containers

• Adopt onStartupFinished event to enable reopen notifications for repository container configurations in vscode-dev-containers Adopt onStartupFinished #3196 @chrmarti
• Investigate into a devContainer.json for the VS Code project for running in a Codespace Add dev container definition for developing VS Code vscode-dev-containers#339 @Chuxel
• Allow disabling of the "reopen" in dev container notification on a per-folder basis Allow disabling "reopen" notification per folder #3197 @chrmarti
• Explore attaching to a container with a user defined name Explore attaching to a container with a user defined name #3198 @chrmarti
• Provide guidance to open a repository in a volume on macOS and Windows when the folder has a .git folder Provide guidance to open a repository in a volume #3199 @chrmarti

Remote - WSL

• None.

Engineering

• Enable auto-classification bot Enable classification bot in this repo #3186 @JacksonKearl
• Enable command bot Enable commands in this repo #3187 @JacksonKearl

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Deferred Items

• Support to drag a file from a remote vscode window to a local window Can't drag files from a remote vscode window to a local window vscode#93599 @isidorn

[bhack]

Any step in this iteration on the Kubernetes integration?

[chrmarti]

(Continuing the conversation with @bhack here: #12 (comment).)

[Stanzilla]

One regression that might be worth addressing: #3190

[crazyoptimist]

Thanks a ton!!
This plugin is really great.
I can't say anything but THANK YOU for your hard work guys. 👍 👍