Python: Iteration Plan for June 2022 #19286

This plan captures our work in June. 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.

Getting started

• Detect when VS Code is launched from an activated virtual environment in WWBD; discussion; Brett Cannon (@brettcannon)
• 🏃‍♀️ Explore how to notify the user they don't have Python installed when installing the Python extension for the first time (part of 🐍📔 Getting Started v-team); issue; Kartik Raj (@karrtikr) Luciana Abud (@luabud) Brett Cannon (@brettcannon)

Environments

• 🏃‍♀️ Work on finalizing design of proposed API for environments; issue; Kartik Raj (@karrtikr)
• Finalize on the UX for environment details in the status bar; related issue; Brett Cannon (@brettcannon) Luciana Abud (@luabud)

Editing

None

LSP

• 🏃‍♀️ Complete MVP of generated LSP types, take the repo public, and publish to PyPI; issue; Karthik Nadig (@karthiknadig)
• Explore pygls adopting programmatic definition of LSP (for notebook support); issue; Karthik Nadig (@karthiknadig)

Terminal

• 💪 Explore options for activated terminals and terminal profiles vscode-python#11039 Luciana Abud (@luabud) Kartik Raj (@karrtikr)

Debugging

• 🏃‍♀️ Investigate automatic debug configuration based on the open workspace for Django, Flask, and FastAPI; issue; Paula (@paulacamargo25) Karthik Nadig (@karthiknadig)
• ✋ Implement automatic debug configuration for Django; issue Paula (@paulacamargo25)

Formatting

• ✋ Create a autopep8 extension from the new template; issue; !Karthik Nadig (@karthiknadig)

Linting

• ✋ Create a flake8 extension from the new template; issue; !Karthik Nadig (@karthiknadig)

Testing

• Become familiar w/ testing support code; issue; @ksy7588 Karthik Nadig (@karthiknadig)
• Rewrite unittest execution code; issue; @ksy7588 Karthik Nadig (@karthiknadig)

(github|vscode).dev

None

Documentation

None

Engineering

• 🏃‍♀️ Write web tests; issue; Karthik Nadig (@karthiknadig)
• 🏃‍♀️ Create an extension template; issue; Karthik Nadig (@karthiknadig)
• 🏃‍♀️ Investigate using in-box copies of packages in tools extensions by default; issue; Karthik Nadig (@karthiknadig)
• 💪 Expose settings in tools extensions for specifying the interpreter command for the server; issue; Karthik Nadig (@karthiknadig)

Python community

• 🏃‍♀️ Figure out how to communicate w/ LinkedIn to start looking into self-contained, relocatable builds of CPython; Brett Cannon (@brettcannon)
• 🏃‍♀️ Add tier support labels to the buildbots; Brett Cannon (@brettcannon)
• Reach out to Hatch about environment discovery proposal; Brett Cannon (@brettcannon)
• 🏃‍♀️ Implement packaging.metadata as a pure data class; issue, PR; Brett Cannon (@brettcannon)