Remote: Iteration Plan for October 2022

[kieferrm]

This plan captures our work in October. 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

• Allow resolvers to signal a fatal failure during the initial connection vscode#162590 @alexdima

Dev Containers Extension

• "Create a Dev Container" without needing a folder vscode-remote-release#7363 @chrmarti

Dev Container Specification / CLI

• Make it easier for features to see which user is the remoteUser devcontainers/spec#91 @chrmarti
• Unique ID into volume mount names devcontainers/spec#62 @chrmarti

WSL

• 💪 Download server bits when updating and WSL was used recently vscode-remote-release#3839@aeschli

Remote-SSH

• 🏃 Improvements to SSH config file parsing/writing vscode-remote-release#7321 @eleanorjboyd @roblourens
• ✋ Support new fatal failure workflow vscode#163241 @eleanorjboyd @roblourens

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Deferred

• Fix port error message regression vscode-remote-release#5970 @eleanorjboyd @roblourens