Iteration Plan for August 2023 #189778

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

Endgame

• August 28, 2023: Endgame begins
• September 1, 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

• Support go-to-symbol in the accessible view vscode#188702 Megan Rogge (@meganrogge)
• Support actions in the accessible view vscode#189486 Megan Rogge (@meganrogge)
• Allow to include the name of the focused view in the window title vscode#97790 Megan Rogge (@meganrogge)
• Accessibility issues, see query Megan Rogge (@meganrogge) team

UX

• Provide options for custom icons/colors for profiles vscode#188972 Hylke Bons (@hbons)
• Explore anchored Quick Pick component vscode#189030 Hylke Bons (@hbons)
• Improve editor toolbar toggle states vscode#186403 Hylke Bons (@hbons)

Workbench

• Implement unfocused view dimming vscode#30522 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• 🏃 Explore support for multiple GitHub accounts vscode#127967 TylerLeonhardt
• 🏃 Add proxy support to http2 requests in the extension host vscode#185098 Christof Marti (@chrmarti)
• Submenu entries hover state should not be sticky vscode#187195 SteVen Batten (@sbatten)
• Explore using watchman as backend for file watching vscode#156964 Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
• Avoid inspecting all settings during settings editor load vscode#179486 Raymond Zhao (@rzhao271)
• Explore showing workspace search results in the command center vscode#189964 Andrea Mah (@andreamah)

vscode.dev

• None.

Code Editor

• Polish moved source code detection and rendering vscode#187432 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
• Reduce merge conflicts by diffing both inputs against each-other vscode#157496 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
• 🏃 Explore multiple diff editors in a single scrolling editor for PR diff reviewing vscode#179000 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet) Ladislau Szomoru (@lszomoru) Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)

Notebook Editor

• 🏃 Polish notebook sticky scroll rendering vscode#188703 Michael Lively (@Yoyokrazy)
• Support word highlight across notebook cell vscode#184259 Michael Lively (@Yoyokrazy)
• 💪 Support trim trailing whitespace/empty lines in notebook cells vscode#181905 Michael Lively (@Yoyokrazy)
• Support Copy Output through command/contextmenu vscode#187152 Aaron Munger (@amunger)
• Handle missing language support in notebook cell vscode#187516 Aaron Munger (@amunger)
• 🏃 Explore support code cell symbols in Go to Symbols (sort using :) vscode-jupyter#13930 Aaron Munger (@amunger)
• 💪 Explore scroll position improvement on execution vscode#169038 Aaron Munger (@amunger)
• Support searching output cells notebooks in the workspace vscode#189564 Andrea Mah (@andreamah)

Jupyter Notebooks

• Contributions to the vscode-jupyter extension vscode-jupyter#14069Peng Lyu (@rebornix) team

WebAssembly Support

• Continue work on the Wit Parser / AST vscode-wasm#52 Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
• Investigate executing C# in the browser using WASM/WASI vscode-wasm#112Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)

Languages

Python

• Contributions to the python extension vscode-python#21771 Brett Cannon (@brettcannon) team

JavaScript/TypeScript

• Automatic type acquisition on the web vscode#172887 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• Merge in initial prototype from TS vscode#182801 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)

Language Server Protocol

• None.

Markdown

• 🏃 Add smart pasting of markdown URLs vscode#186289 Meghan Kulkarni (@MeghanKulkarni)
• 🏃 Add drop/paste for css vscode#189875 Meghan Kulkarni (@MeghanKulkarni)

Source Control

• None.

Terminal

• Add API to set terminal prompt prefix via Environment variable collection vscode#188969 Kartik Raj (@karrtikr)
• Finalize API for scoped environment variable collection vscode#171173 Kartik Raj (@karrtikr)
• Add option to disable terminal restoration vscode#39137 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• Faster DOM renderer vscode#189405 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• Toggle to disable bracketed paste mode permanently vscode#187480 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)

Testing

• 🏃 Explore improvements to Mocha testing vscode#189680 Connor Peet (@connor4312)

Debug

• 🏃 Support debugging WASM files in JavaScript vscode-js-debug#1789

API

• 🏃 Explore ShareableDataProvider API vscode#176316 Joyce Er (@joyceerhl)
• 🏃 Finalize port attributes API vscode#115616 Alex Ross (@alexr00)
• API proposals: query Johannes Rieken (@jrieken) Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• API finalization: query Johannes Rieken (@jrieken) Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)

Extensions

• Extension packs should not open multiple welcome pages vscode#188104 Bhavya U (@bhavyaus)
• Add tunnel activation event vscode#188730 Alex Ross (@alexr00)
• 💪 Explore support for extensions to provide additional data to the issue reporter vscode#46726 TylerLeonhardt

Extension Contributions

• Improvements to the Remote extensions vscode-remote-release#8807 roblourens Christof Marti (@chrmarti) Connor Peet (@connor4312) Joyce Er (@joyceerhl)

Documentation

• Review and update Command Line Interface (CLI) topic vscode-docs#6435 Greg Van Liew (@gregvanl)
• Review and update Configure C++ Debugging topic vscode-docs#5518 Greg Van Liew (@gregvanl)
• 🏃 Scaffold "Custom Layout" document vscode-docs#6393 Greg Van Liew (@gregvanl)

Engineering

• Clean up CLI build vscode#178691 Connor Peet (@connor4312)
• ✋ Use Terrapin instead of crates.io. Artifacts support for Cargo is now available in DevOps #4353 Connor Peet (@connor4312)
• Ship separate third party notice with CLI download vscode#178691 Connor Peet (@connor4312)
• 🏃 Adopt StorageScope.WORKSPACE and StorageTarget.USER in workbench vscode#183449 Joyce Er (@joyceerhl) team

Electron

• Update to Electron 25 vscode#184021 Robo (@deepak1556)
• Crash when closing macOS tab vscode#167936 Robo (@deepak1556)

Deferred

• Improve default theme diff colors for users with colorblindness vscode#182173 Hylke Bons (@hbons)
• Explore improvements to notifications for users using screenreaders vscode#183567 Hylke Bons (@hbons)
• Update color token architecture and themes in Figma toolkit vscode-figma-toolkit#9 Hylke Bons (@hbons)
• Explore notification management UX for specific extensions vscode#41767 David Dossett (@daviddossett)
• ✋ PGO for VSCode Desktop vscode#170931 Robo (@deepak1556)
• 🏃 Improve the keybinding recording widget vscode#178042 vscode#179015 vscode#179018 Ulugbek Abdullaev (@ulugbekna)
• Explore simplifying the account menu for built-in online services vscode-internalbacklog#3271 TylerLeonhardt Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081) Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli)
• 🏃 Stabilize DocumentPasteEditProvider API to support pasting images vscode#30066 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)