Iteration Plan for July 2017 #30209

This plan captures our work in July. This is a 5 week iteration. We will ship early August. The main focus remains the same as last iteration's: We continue pushing on #396 "Multi-folder workspaces".

In July and August our team will operate with slightly reduced capacity. Being on the northern hemisphere means summer is upon us. At any given time, a few of us will be busy recharging with friends and families. If you mention somebody in an issue and you don't hear anything for a couple of days, just picture them hanging out on the beach 🏊‍♀️ 🏊‍♂️ 🏖️

Endgame

• July26nd: Code freeze for the Zurich endgame
• July 31st: Code freeze for the Redmond & Zurich endgame
• August 4th: Endgame done

The endgame details for this iteration are tracked in #31333

Plan Items

Below is a summary of the top level plan items.

Legend of annotations:

Workbench

• 🏃 Multi-folder workspaces Multi-root workspace implementation Roadmap #28344 (feature request Add support for opening multiple project folders in same window #396) Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero) Daniel Imms (@Tyriar) @ team
• Improve usability of text search in multi-folder workspaces Search viewlet multiroot UI #29977 Revisit search include/exclude and './' patterns #27226 roblourens
• Allow users to manage custom sections in the explorer (reorder, show/hide) As a user, I should be able to control visibility and order of views #30120 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
• Polish Tasks v2.0 See query. Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
• Provide color picker Out-of-the-box color picker #28587 Michel Kaporin (@michelkaporin) João Moreno (@joaomoreno)

Editor

• Polish indentation of lines Improve indentation of lines #28658 Peng Lyu (@rebornix)
• Support for choices in snippets Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
• Improve handling of large files (memory usage, tune max size heuristic) Improve memory usage for large files #30180 alexandrudima
• Make diffs prettier Make diffs prettier #30087 Tab count compare bug #23636 Diff: support "compaction heuristic" #11657 alexandrudima

Accessibility

• 🏃 Improve support for assistive technologies in the integrated terminal Integrated terminal does not support screen readers #8339 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)

Debug

• Make debug launching multi-folder-workspace aware Debug: make launching multi root folder aware #29245 Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn) Andre Weinand (@weinand)
• Make Debug API multi-folder-workspace aware Make Debug API multi-folder-workspace aware  #31202 Andre Weinand (@weinand) Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn)
• Expand API for extensions (sessionStarted, sessionTerminated, sendCustomRequest, handleCustomEvent) Expand Debug API for extensions #30338 Andre Weinand (@weinand)
• Show loaded scripts in a custom explorer section Show loaded scripts in a custom explorer section #28521 Andre Weinand (@weinand)
• Support to contribute sections to the debug viewlet Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)

Install/update

• Help users to switch from the Windows 32bit install to the Windows 64-bit install João Moreno (@joaomoreno)
• Improve proxy support, support proxies requiring authentication Help Wanted: Test new networking stack #22214 João Moreno (@joaomoreno)

SCM

• 💪 🏃 🔴 Support for multiple repositories in a workspace João Moreno (@joaomoreno)
• Revive creating a branch on checkout from status bar Can no longer create branch when running Git: Checkout #21439 João Moreno (@joaomoreno)

Integrated Terminal

• Quick pick to navigate to a particular terminal Improve terminal navigation #29879 Amy Qiu (@Lixire)

Languages

Language Server Protocol

• Maintenance, answer questions, clarify protocol as needed Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)

JavaScript/TypeScript

• Support multi-folder workspaces TypeScript Extension Multiroot Support #30414 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• Explore how to support external files supported by TS server plug-ins Support External Files Provided by TS Plugin #30411 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• Explore watch mode for TS build task Should TypeScript build task be a watch task? #29580 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)

ESLint

• Explore the eslint language server supporting multi-folder workspaces Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)

CSS

• Explore moving Emmet css completion provider into the css LS Consider moving emmet completion provider for css to css language service #29113 Ramya Rao (@ramya-rao-a)

Emmet

• Support custom snippets in new Emmet Support custom snippets in new Emmet #29146
• Collaborate on Emmet fixes Ramya Rao (@ramya-rao-a) Missing snippets for xsl emmetio/atom-plugin#30, Emmet abbreviation with (...)*n doesn't work emmetio/atom-plugin#23, @ syntax isn't working in Emmet 2.0 #30078, Remove group node to avoid extra newline and indent emmetio/abbreviation#3 and Support siblings after a group repeater emmetio/abbreviation#2, Support offset when numbering  emmetio/html-transform#1
• Increase test coverage for Emmet Add tests for emmet commands #8454 Ramya Rao (@ramya-rao-a)
• Implement remaining 2 emmet actions: Update Image Size ("Emmet: Update image size" breaks formatting #27977) and Reflect CSS Value (Emmet: Implement Reflect CSS Value in emmet extension #31298)
• Prepare Emmet extension for translation Move all Emmet commands from core to extension and localize #29969 Ramya Rao (@ramya-rao-a)

Extensions

API

• Experiment: remote file system Experiment: remote file system #30337 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)

Engineering items

• Adopt TS 2.4.1 in vscode and team-supported extensions Adopt TS 2.4 For VS Code Build #28643 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz) @ team
• Improve automated support for issue labeling and assignment Automate identifying, labeling, and closing stale issues #26223 Christof Marti (@chrmarti)
• Startup performance: use V8 snapshots for the VS Code loader Use V8 snapshots for the amd-loader #28492 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)

Documentation

• 🏃 Recipe using Tasks with webpack, starting, problem matchers (see also Contribute problem matcher for the webpack ts-loader #29619) Anjali Fernandes (@aefernandes) Amy Qiu (@Lixire)

Exploration

• Explore the idea of a task panel Amy Qiu (@Lixire) Anjali Fernandes (@aefernandes)
• 🏃 Analysis of current test runner extensions (see also Test Runner Viewlet with an Extension API to plug into [Enhancement Request] #9505) Anjali Fernandes (@aefernandes)
• Investigate into adding a secure credential storage API Provide a unified, secure, credential store #15414 Christof Marti (@chrmarti)

Deferred

• New release of the Monaco Editor Monaco Editor Release July 2017 monaco-editor#510 Peng Lyu (@rebornix)
• 🏃 Adopt Electron 1.7.4 Adopt Electron 1.7.x #28582 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• 🏃 Use inspector protocol for extension debugging Attach to extension host vscode-node-debug2#4 roblourens
• Support commands in the hover Allow command: links in hover decorations #29076 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
• Enable electron crash reporter for all processes Enable Electron Crash reporter for all processes after Electron update #21944 Ramya Rao (@ramya-rao-a)
• Explore how best to help HTMLHint Ramya Rao (@ramya-rao-a)
• Improve selection drawing Terminal selection should not change text color #29042 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• Improve link detection Improve terminal link detection July plan item #30211 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)