March Iteration Plan

[kieferrm]

This plan captures the focus of our work during the March iteration. It's a 5 week iteration. We will ship early April.

Endgame

• March, 27th: Code freeze for the endgame
• March 31st: Endgame done

The endgame details for this iteration are tracked in #23276.

Plan Items

Below is a summary of the top level plan items.

Legend for annotations:

Mark	Description
🏃	work in progress
✋	blocked task
💪	stretch goal for this iteration
🔵	more details required
🔴	missing issue reference

Workbench

• Initial investigation into multi-root, multi-folder workspaces Add support for opening multiple project folders in same window #396 @bpasero @Tyriar
• Additional theming options in the workbench Support to theme the entire workbench #3112 @aeschli @bpasero
• Search speed improvements Explore using a native third-party search tool such as ripgrep or Silver Searcher #19983 @roblourens
• Polish - Affordance to maximize Panel Polish affordance to maximize panel #22135 @isidorn
• UI - Investigate on improve key binding customization support Investigate and Improve Key bindings customisations experience #18095 @sandy081 @alexandrudima
• UI - support to keep files deleted on disk open in the editor @bpasero

Tasks

• Support contributing problem matchers Allow extensions to contribute named problem matchers via package.json #22066 @dbaeumer
• Define TaskProvider API Define extension story for tasks #22069 @dbaeumer

Editor

• Move keybinding dispatching off e.keyCode @alexandrudima Move keybinding dispatching off e.keyCode #17521
• Polish mini map support (see query) @alexandrudima
• Polish drag & drop support (clean up event ordering) Drag and drop enhancement #22094 @rebornix
• Polish rich text copy/paste Copy with formatting enhancement #22095 @rebornix
• Investigate offline spell checking Offline spell checker for VSCode #20266 @rebornix
• Improve auto completion with fuzzy matching Sublime Text style auto completion for words and member functions with fuzzy matching #22153 @jrieken

Terminal

• Terminal improvements to support tasks @Tyriar
  • link validation Validate terminal links after they have been created #21226 @Tyriar
  • argument parsing for commands Terminal doesn't honor quoted command lines. #19078 @Tyriar
• Revisit: Terminal settings as workspace settings Setting a terminal by workspace settings is broken! User settings are not sufficient! #19758 @Tyriar
• UI - navigate to links on modifier click only Require cmd/ctrl+click to follow links in the terminal #21506 @Tyriar

Languages

Languages UI

• Suggestions in comments - revisit and reopen Autocomplete annoyingly tries to complete in comments. #9504 and leverage new token types in API @jrieken

TypeScript/JavaScript

• Support Implementors Code Lens Implementations Code Lens For TypeScript #20832 @mjbvz
• Adopt cancellation support Adopt cancellation token support in TS Server #18053 @mjbvz
• Investigate performance issues reported for TS Server Investigate performance issues reported for TS Server #22102 @mjbvz
• Track TS server extension API Track TS Server Extension API #22101 @mjbvz

Markdown

• Explore extension mechanisms for the buiilt-in markdown support Markdown Preview Extensions Exploration #22916 @mjbvz

Debugging

• Support async stack frames Debug exploration: Async Callstacks #5552 @roblourens @weinand
• Show all source code when debugging against a remote process Show all source code when debugging against a remote process #20355 Show all scripts loaded in runtime vscode-chrome-debug-core#182 @weinand @roblourens
• Surface new Exception DAP in UI Surface new Exception DAP in UI #22078 @weinand @michelkaporin
• Support a server mode for debug adapters Consider to support a server mode for debug adapters #22080 @weinand
• Debt: Support env variables for extension host debugging Set env to extensionHost type in launch.json did not work #22150 @weinand
• Debt: Reliable inline instruction pointer (e.g. multi threaded programs) When using Run to Cursor, then there is no inline instruction pointer decoration #21122 @weinand @isidorn
• Explore: Add debug menu to improve discoverability Add debug menu to improve discoverability #22077 @isidorn
• Explore: configuration UI (quick pick) for exceptions improve exception configuration experience #18093 @weinand
• 🏃 Experiment: support Live Edit for node-debug (legacy protocol) Support Live Reloading Scenarios #6930 @weinand
• Edit breakpoint conditions with multiple breakpoint on same line Edit breakpoint conditions with multiple breakpoint on same line #21151 @isidorn

Extension Authoring

• SCM - finish API based on feedback from early adapters Provisional SCM API & git extension #15894 @joaomoreno
• SCM - make the git SCM Provider the default git support Make the git SCM Provider the default git support #22131 @joaomoreno
• Support large extension, adopt new marketplace support Adopt Marketplace large extensions support #18146 @joaomoreno
• Expose progress API Explore providing an API for providing progress information #18066 @jrieken
• Control script execution in HTML preview Control script execution in HTML preview #22103 @mjbvz
• Investigate more types for CompletionItemKind enum More types for CompletionItemKind enum #2628 @jrieken
• Add support for a ContentProvider (only interested in content, not a Document) API for getting a text document without opening #15723 @jrieken

Contributions to Extensions

• TSLint: investigate into running tslint as a TS server extension Microsoft/vscode-tslint#171 @egamma
• Docker - add telemetry @chrisdias
• Go - Iteration Plan for March 2017 vscode-go#837 @ramya-rao-a
• 🏃 PHP - language server contributions Microsoft/tolerant-php-parser adoption felixfbecker/php-language-server#323 @mousetraps
• 🏃 PHP - continued progress on PHP parser https://github.com/Microsoft/tolerant-php-parser/milestone/2 @mousetraps

Engineering Items

• Assess Electron adoption @bpasero
  • Understand impact of Electron update on keycodes @alexandrudima
• 🏃 Investigate into proxy issues Help Wanted: Test new networking stack #22214 @joaomoreno
• extension host error spamming the core Explore extension host error spamming the core #22804 @kieferrm

Startup performance

• Support that users can capture and report an execution profile on slow startup add --prof-startup flag #21631 @jrieken

Translations

• Import/export to xliff Move to XLIFF format for string localizations #22092 @michelkaporin
• Explore doing translations using transifex Explorer how to leverage Transifex to translate VS Code #22070 @dbaeumer @michelkaporin

Telemetry

• Finish migration of backend @ramya-rao-a
• Prune error telemetry @ramya-rao-a

Documentation

• New TOC on website @waderyan @gregvanl
• Update vscode-samples @chrisdias @kieferrm

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Deferred

• Editor architectural documentation @rebornix @alexandrudima
• UI - explore improved notification story UI - explore improved notification UX #22388 @stevencl @chrisdias
• Debug - Support to copy the entire text of the debug console Multi page selection in debug console #2163 @isidorn
• Tasks - Support that an extension defines the 'Build' command Allow extensions to participate in tasks using commands #22067 @dbaeumer
• Tasks - Enable link detection for common error messages Support terminal link matchers in tasks v2 #21928 @dbaeumer
• Investigate into UI extension API, improve HTML preview Investigate better UX for previewing things #22068 @jrieken
• HTML - format on paste support [html] Format onPaste issues with HTML #21218 @aeschli
• HTML - tag completion [html] VSCode doesn't automatically close HTML tags #2246 @aeschli
• Investigate improve release notes for Insiders Improve Insiders release notes #22051 @joaomoreno @gregvanl

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• Move lines up/down with auto indent Move lines honor indentation rules #22093 @rebornix
• Explore emmet 2.0 support Emmet extension for expansion and all other actions using the new apis #21943 @ramya-rao-a
• Separate 'configuration' from 'learning' quick links Separate 'configuration' from 'learning' quick links #22097 @chrmarti
• Investigate to provide guidance for technology stacks Investigate to provide guidance for technology stacks #22098 @chrmarti @chrisdias
• Enable Electron Crash reporter for all processes after Electron update Enable Electron Crash reporter for all processes after Electron update #21944 @ramya-rao-a
• Support migrating from 0.1.0 to 2.0.0 Help users to migrate to new tasks.json version 2.0.0. #22065 @dbaeumer

[equinusocio]

I hope for this

Additional theming options in the workbench (colors, fonts)

[dariusrosendahl]

Would love

Investigate into multi-root, multi-folder workspaces #396 @bpasero @Tyriar

To be able to completely replace Sublime / Atom

[opus131]

FYI this is not linked from the wiki page yet:
https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/wiki/Iteration-Plans

[equinusocio]

Improve website download performance Microsoft/vscode-website#521 @waderyan

#521 is a 404

[jens1o]

@equinusocio I think it's just a private repo 😉

[equinusocio]

@jens1o right

[Tyriar]

@opus131 I added it plus the missing endgame issues 👍

[opus131]

@Tyriar thank you!

[zbandhan]

It's really adorable. VS CODE is gonna improve in unbelievable velocity. Thanks VS CODE team and everyone behind this nice project.

[equinusocio]

I hope that "Additional theming options in the workbench" is not just a "on/off" display setting :)

[egamma]

Closing the March release has been published.