Iteration Plan for April 2023 #178951

This plan captures our work in April. This is a 5-week iteration. We will ship in early May.

Endgame

• April 24, 2023: Endgame begins
• April 28, 2023: 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:

Accessibility

• Improve command palette input box screen reader experience vscode#176081 TylerLeonhardt
• Inline suggestions are read twice by screen reader vscode#177696 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
• Set Selection Anchor and Select from Anchor to Cursor does not work in a11y terminal buffer vscode#177029 Megan Rogge (@meganrogge)
• 🏃 Notebook output accessibility vscode#178630 Aaron Munger (@amunger)
• allowNavigateToSurroundingCells should be false when screen reader is detected vscode#176286 Megan Rogge (@meganrogge)
• Notebook cell complete audio cue didn't play if kernel was selected in same execution action vscode#176284 Megan Rogge (@meganrogge)
• 🏃 Accessibility issues, see query Megan Rogge (@meganrogge) Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn) team
• 🏃 Custom dialog does not properly return focus to webView vscode#170442 SteVen Batten (@sbatten) Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)

Workbench

• Built-in Profiles vscode#166359 Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn) Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
• 🏃 Support Dev Containers and WSL in new Connect to... experience on Welcome Page vscode-remote-release#8251 Bhavya U (@bhavyaus) Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli) Christof Marti (@chrmarti)
• 🏃 Improve the keybinding recording widget vscode#178042 vscode#179015 vscode#179018 Ulugbek Abdullaev (@ulugbekna)
• 🏃 Explore support for multiple GitHub accounts vscode#127967 TylerLeonhardt
• Address performance regression in insiders vscode#177257 Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
• Explore flatten "Continue On" options in Terminal welcome view vscode#179013 Joyce Er (@joyceerhl)
• Improve "Continue On" sign-in flow vscode#179012 Joyce Er (@joyceerhl)
• 🏃 Support roaming open editors and notebook kernel state in "Continue On" vscode#179898 Joyce Er (@joyceerhl) Peng Lyu (@rebornix)
• 🏃 Change default light and dark themes to the v2 themes vscode#179688 Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli) David Dossett (@daviddossett)

Code Editor

• Roll out async tokenization and add correctness assertions behind setting vscode#179133 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
• Deprecate smart diffing algorithm in favor of experimental diffing algorithm vscode#164583 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
• 💪 Collapse unchanged regions in diff vscode#3562 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
• Accept inline completion words across lines vscode#172162 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
• Allow inline providers to opt in to showing inline completions at the same time as completions vscode#179134 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
• 🏃 Make editor hovers resizable vscode#14165 Aiday Marlen Kyzy (@aiday-mar)
• 🏃 Allow using the color picker without a color region vscode#52364 Aiday Marlen Kyzy (@aiday-mar)
• Monaco Editor Release 0.37.0 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)

Notebook Editor

• Allow toggling scrollable outputs per cell vscode#174951 Aaron Munger (@amunger)
• Polish global search options for open notebooks vscode#164926 Andrea Mah (@andreamah)
• 🏃 Static resources fail to load in Notebook renderer with 401 error vscode#175033 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• 💪 Align closing behavior of the Interactive Window with Untitled Files vscode#172974 Aaron Munger (@amunger)
• Support dynamic profile switching vscode#179224 Peng Lyu (@rebornix) Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
• Explore supporting replace while markdown cells are in preview mode vscode#179320 Peng Lyu (@rebornix)

Jupyter Notebooks

• Contributions to the vscode-jupyter extension vscode-jupyter#13250 team

WebAssembly Runtime Support

• Finish up multi thread support for WASM-WASI threads vscode-wasm#45 Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
• 🏃 Convert Python WASM-WASI extension to the new library extension vscode-python-web-wasm#47 Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
• 🏃 Explore provide a web-shell shell-engine-js#1 Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer) Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)

Languages

Python

• Contributions to the python extension vscode-python#20971 Brett Cannon (@brettcannon) team

Python WebAssembly Runtime Support

• How do users find packages that work in CPython WASI? issue; Brett Cannon (@brettcannon)

JavaScript/TypeScript

• 🏃 Automatic type acquisition on the web vscode#172887 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• 🏃 Project-wide IntelliSense on the web vscode#170920 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• TypeScript 5.1 move to existing file support typescript#29988 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• TypeScript 5.1 jsx mirror cursor support typescript#51832 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)

Language Server Protocol

• 🏃 Investigate to extract a base protocol definition out of the LS protocol 1707 Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
• 🏃 Support that servers can read from remote file systems 1264 Rich Chiodo (@rchiodo) / Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)

Source Control

• Git Status Updates Are Blocking vscode#168453 Ladislau Szomoru (@lszomoru)
• SCM - Add document property to expose the text document vscode#171504 Ladislau Szomoru (@lszomoru)
• Handle push errors more gracefully vscode#178990 Ladislau Szomoru (@lszomoru)
• ⬛ vscode#179000 Exploration: Changes editor Ladislau Szomoru (@lszomoru)
• 💪 Surface Dependabot alerts in workbench vscode#178991 Ladislau Szomoru (@lszomoru)

Terminal

• Allow specifying workspace-specific environment variables via EnvironmentVariableCollection vscode#171173 Kartik Raj (@karrtikr) Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• Allow to provide description to environment collection API vscode#171108 Kartik Raj (@karrtikr)
• 🏃 Finalize proposed APIs for environment workspace collection vscode#171108 Kartik Raj (@karrtikr)
• 🏃 Allow EnvironmentVariableCollection API to apply changes via shell integration vscode#179476 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar) Kartik Raj (@karrtikr)

Testing

• Expose selection and profile of the test explorer vscode#179065 Connor Peet (@connor4312)
• Allow to watch subsets of tests vscode#178973 Connor Peet (@connor4312)
• Better indicators for what tests are running continuously vscode#178973 Connor Peet (@connor4312)
• 💪 Support for ANSI colors in test output vscode#151964 Connor Peet (@connor4312)
• 💪 Start drafting a retired test item API vscode#134970 Connor Peet (@connor4312)

vscode.dev

• 💪 Opening vscode.dev should not require a browser reload to update web extensions vscode#174682 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)

API

• API finalization: query Johannes Rieken (@jrieken) Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• API proposals: query Johannes Rieken (@jrieken) Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• 🏃 Explore support for extensions to provide additional data to the issue reporter vscode#46726 TylerLeonhardt

Extensions

• Show the publisher in notifications whenever we recommend extensions 179004 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)

Extension Contributions

• Improvements to the Remote extensions Eleanor Boyd (@eleanorjboyd) Christof Marti (@chrmarti) vscode-remote-release#8314 Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli) Joyce Er (@joyceerhl) Connor Peet (@connor4312)
• 🏃 Exploration: Re-think PR creation flow vscode-pull-request-github#4403 Alex Ross (@alexr00) Hylke Bons (@hbons)
• Add Team Reviewers to Pull Request vscode-pull-request-github#1126 Alex Ross (@alexr00)
• 💪 Respect git's pullBeforeCheckout setting for githubPullRequests.postCreate vscode-pull-request-github#4450 Alex Ross (@alexr00)
• GHPR: Make it very obvious when the rate limit has been hit vscode-pull-request-github#4546 Alex Ross (@alexr00)

Engineering

• 🏃 💪 Adopt utility process in terminal/pty host vscode#175335 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar) Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
• Sandboxing: Investigate increased extension host crash rate in stable vscode-internalbacklog#3456 Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero) Robo (@deepak1556) Harald Kirschner (@digitarald)

Electron

• ⬛ Update to Electron 22 vscode#166265 Robo (@deepak1556) Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero) Raymond Zhao (@rzhao271)

Deferred

• Explore alternative wording for "Continue On" explanations vscode#180106 Hylke Bons (@hbons)
• Exploration: Cross-profile settings and extensions vscode#176813 vscode#157492Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
• Show existing tunnels on Welcome page in vscode.dev vscode#179687 Bhavya U (@bhavyaus) Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli) Connor Peet (@connor4312)
• Support experimental contextual non-modal dialogs to educate users on web experiences vscode#179401 Bhavya U (@bhavyaus) Joyce Er (@joyceerhl) David Dossett (@daviddossett)
• Walkthrough images load slowly vscode#166890 Bhavya U (@bhavyaus)
• UX to alert users of a slow remote connection vscode#178553 Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
• Support scrollable outputs for streaming text vscode#177721 Aaron Munger (@amunger) Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• Explore smart global search for notebooks in the workspace vscode#173726 Andrea Mah (@andreamah)
• Explore prompting to enable Cloud Changes on save in web vscode#179014 Joyce Er (@joyceerhl)
• Investigation: Azure DevOps multi-tenant support vscode-remote-repositories-github#241 Ladislau Szomoru (@lszomoru)
• Improving the developer experience for the CLI within the vscode repo vscode#171515 Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli) Connor Peet (@connor4312)
• Orca can't be stopped in native dialogs vscode#121811 Robo (@deepak1556)
• Explore improvements to the extensions list vscode#151599
• Support external terminals as a default for WSL sessions vscode#167865 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• Continue pwsh autocomplete vscode#154662 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• ✋ Add elided text (editor core subset of vscode#170447) Henning Dieterichs (@hediet) Alexandru Dima (@alexdima)
• ✋ ⬛ PGO for VSCode Desktop vscode#170931 Robo (@deepak1556)
• 💪 Right Click acting abnormal vscode#113175 Robo (@deepak1556)
• Add support for running macros vscode#871 Ulugbek Abdullaev (@ulugbekna)
• Add support for recording macros vscode#4490 Ulugbek Abdullaev (@ulugbekna)