Iteration Plan for November 2021

[kieferrm]

This plan captures our work in November. This is a 5-week iteration. We will ship in early December. As usual, there will be no release in early January. The next release will come in early February 2022.

In addition to the plan items below, some of us who were tied up in releasing https://vscode.dev will continue house keeping in November.

Endgame

• November 30, 2021: Endgame
• December 03, 2021: 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

Housekeeping

• Issue/PR Grooming - review, categorization, assignment vscode#134380 team

Accessibility

• Accessibility issues, see query @isidorn team
• Debug Adapter Protocol website accessibility issues, see query @rzhao271 @sana-ajani

Workbench

• 🏃 Improve secondary side panel vscode#132893 @sbatten
• 🏃 Explore improving discoverability of workbench layout options vscode#137633 @sbatten
• Improvements to the settings editor, see query @rzhao271
• Multiple languages specific editor settings vscode#51935 @sandy081
• Explore incrementally updating the markdown preview editor vscode#136703 @mjbvz
• Investigate support for incremental rollout of new defaults for settings vscode#134684 @sandy081
• 🏃 Improve language detection model to better deal with small inputs vscode#137104 @JacksonKearl @TylerLeonhardt

• 🏃 Problems view - add support to sort by message contents vscode#98819 @lszomoru
• 🏃 Add support for drag&drop in custom trees vscode#32592 @alexr00
• Support to preview color, icon, product themes from the marketplace without having to install them vscode#137289 @aeschli

Web

• 💪 Explore translations in the web vscode#136331 @TylerLeonhardt
• Investigate startup performance measurements/improvements vscode-dev#454 @jrieken
• 🔴 🏃 Rapid render for the web @jrieken
• vscode.dev: Make UI more stable when opening a PR URL vscode#136660 @alexr00

Code Editor

• Adopt injected text infrastructure for other features vscode#132537 @hediet
• Highlight confusable Unicode characters vscode#136437 @hediet
• Investigate simplifying Monaco Editor Release Process vscode#136443 @alexdima
• Release the Monaco Editor monaco-editor#2718 @alexdima
• Publish Monaco Editor nightly builds @alexdima
• Stream hovers from multiple providers vscode#137714 @alexdima
• 💪 Investigate customizing mouse shortcuts vscode#3130 @hediet
• 💪 Use sounds to notify screenreader users when inline suggestions or decorations are present, e.g. a breakpoint is on a current line vscode#130565 see also @hediet @isidorn

Notebook Editor

• 🏃 Improve code structure and dependencies vscode#131808 @roblourens @rebornix
• 💪 Improve perceived scroll performance in notebooks vscode#117644 @rebornix
• 🏃 Improve rendering jitter in notebooks vscode#126432 @roblourens
• Allow users to configure the font size for rendering markdown vscode#126294 @mjbvz
• Explore syntax highlighting in markdown code blocks vscode#136693 @mjbvz
• 🏃 Show execution progress while the executing cell is out of the viewport vscode#130611 @roblourens @rebornix @misolori
• Support progressive behavior in the notebook toolbar vscode#134248 @rebornix
• 💪 Explore indicating cell status for collapsed cells vscode#131200 @roblourens
• 💪 Improve discoverability of cell folding vscode#132690 @roblourens

Jupyter Notebooks

• Contributions to the vscode-jupyter extension vscode-jupyter#8200 @greazer team

Languages

AnyCode

See AnyCode.

• 🏃 Improve the support in large workspaces vscode-anycode#9 @jrieken
• 🔴 Explore bundling the extension with VS Code desktop @jrieken

LSP /LSIF

• Add support for TypeScript v4.5 #135 @dbaeumer

Python

• Contributions to the python extension vscode-python#17956 @brettcannon team

JavaScript/TypeScript

• Adopt TypeScript v4.5 vscode#136704 @mjbvz

JSON

• Add support for subschemes with IDs vscode#92042 @aeschli
• Adapt language status indicator vscode#137288 @aeschli
• Use http to cache JSON schemes vscode#101050 @aeschli

Debug

• Investigate lazy variable evaluation vscode#135147 vscode#134450 @weinand @roblourens
• 🏃 Prototype extension debugging in a clean environment vscode#126737 @weinand
• 💪 Propose UI for debugging highly concurrent languages vscode#116109 @weinand

DAP

• New OutputEvent category for highly visible output messages debug-adapter-protocol#218 @weinand
• Support continue for all threads debug-adapter-protocol#214 @weinand
• Support global evaluation that requires a file for context vscode#134452 @weinand

Terminal

• Terminal refactors for improved testability vscode#136065 @meganrogge @Tyriar
• 🏃 Create terminal smoke test suite vscode#136064 @Tyriar @meganrogge

Source Control

• Explore how to improve the display defaults for the git repository provider vscode#135992 @lszomoru @misolori
• 💪 Large change improvements vscode#135865 @lszomoru

API

• API finalization: query
• API proposals: query
• 🏃 Explore API access to open editors including focused notebooks or custom editors vscode#15178 @lramos15
• Support separators/categories in QuickPicks vscode#74967 @TylerLeonhardt

Extensions

• Add support for insider versions of extensions vscode#15756 @sandy081 @isidorn @misolori @lydiayschung
• Enable extensions to contribute default values for settings vscode#46851 @sandy081
• 💪 Explore simplifying enabling/disabling a group of extensions for a workspace vscode#40239 @sandy081

Extension Contributions

• 🏃 Improve handling of large files or memory sizes in the Hex Editor vscode#126268 @connor4312 @lramos15
• Improvements to the Remote extensions vscode-remote-release#5828 @alexr00 @roblourens @tanhakabir @chrmarti @aeschli
• Improvements to the GitHub PRI extension query @alexr00
• Improvements to the GitHub Repositories extension (see query) @joyceerhl
• Improvements to the Live Preview extension (see query) @lszomoru
• 🏃 Work with popular extension on adopting and improving their welcome pages (e.g. docker) vscode#118402 @digitarald
• Work with language extensions on adoption language status indication vscode#129037 @isidorn

Engineering

• 🏃 Adopt vscode namespace for npm packages vscode#130301 @connor4312 team
• 🏃 Create "inbox tracker" bot: Round-robin assign low confidence issues vscode#136688 @JacksonKearl
• 🔴 💪 Explore learned duplicate/needs-more-info triage @JacksonKearl
• Proposed API process improvements vscode#1311651 @jrieken @mjbvz
• Investigate consolidating the FileWatcher implementations by building on the multi-root file watcher vscode#132483 @bpasero
• 🏃 Update the 'how to contribute' documentation for Windows 11 [Document how to develop under Windows 11 #137654](Document how to develop under Windows 11) @dbaeumer

Builds

• ✋ Explore to use playwright for our desktop smoke tests vscode#128479 @bpasero @joaomoreno

Electron

• 🏃 Refactor startup code to use electron's requestSingleInstanceLock API vscode#97626 @rzhao271
• 🏃 Update to Electron 16 vscode#137241 @deepak1556 @bpasero
• Electron stability improvements, see query @deepak1556

Node.js-free, sand-boxed renderer

Implement a node.js-free, sandboxed, context isolated renderer vscode#92164

• Move extension host out of the workbench vscode#123592 @alexdima @deepak1556 @bpasero
• 🏃 Enable renderer process reuse vscode#120431 @rzhao271 @deepak1556 @bpasero
• ✋ Enable contextIsolation for all windows vscode#128099 @bpasero @rzhao271 @deepak1556

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Deferred

• Explore: Support virtual trees based on name patterns vscode#6328 @JacksonKearl
• 🔴 Explore "Continue On" support in core @joyceerhl
• Investigate how to avoid double results from different language providers vscode#136667 @jrieken
• Investigate the impact of windows sandbox for vscode installs vscode#122951 @deepak1556

[tristan957]

CC @deepak1556 @bpasero: I think VSCode should not release with Electron >= 14 until electron/electron#32049 is merged, otherwise Linux users may have a really bad time. Waiting on one more approval on the PR

[deepak1556]

@tristan957 thanks for the heads up! the synchronous api is not used in the code base and also Electron 16 will not be merged for the November milestone pending some cleanups #137241

[tristan957]

Cool. Well thanks for merging it anyways!