Iteration Plan for July 2024 #220925

This plan captures our work in July. This is a 4-week iteration. We will ship in early August.

Endgame

• July 22, 2024: Endgame begins
• July 26, 2024: 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

• Accessibility issues, see query Megan Rogge (@meganrogge) team

Workbench

• Add url handling for settings vscode#212079 Alex Ross (@alexr00)
• Polish Profiles Editor UX vscode#218162 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
• Support an icon button style in quick pick vscode#221397 TylerLeonhardt
• Support panel at the top vscode#50984 Benjamin Christopher Simmonds (@benibenj)
• 💪 Tree: Support contributable find providers vscode#212077 Benjamin Christopher Simmonds (@benibenj)
• Improve basic auth proxy support vscode#220034 Christof Marti (@chrmarti)

Code Editor

• 🏃 Investigation: Use tree-sitter for grammar colorization vscode#210475 Alex Ross (@alexr00)
• Allow editor.codeActionsOnSave for autoSave afterDelay vscode#200881 Justin Chen (@justschen)
• Improve where the lightbulb widget appears in the editor and notebook vscode#202767 Justin Chen (@justschen)
• Improve jumping when Code Lenses appear vscode#216824 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
• Improve the diff editor when rendered in narrow containers vscode#221245 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
• 🏃 Adopt EditContext vscode@207700 Aiday Marlen Kyzy (@aiday-mar) Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
• 🏃 Release Monaco Editor Aiday Marlen Kyzy (@aiday-mar) Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)

Notebook Editor

• Command to Toggle comment for multiple cells vscode#142437 Michael Lively (@Yoyokrazy)
• 🏃 Proposal for restructuring and cleaning up the context menu in Notebook vscode#219240 Michael Lively (@Yoyokrazy)
• 💪 Explore supporting cmd+d across multiple cells vscode#141673 Michael Lively (@Yoyokrazy)
• 💪 Improve rendering of large code cell editor (e.g., sticky execution count) vscode#209154 Peng Lyu (@rebornix)
• 💪 Explore hiding/collapsing unchanged cells in Notebook Diff Editor vscode#174152 Don Jayamanne (@DonJayamanne)

Search

• 🏃 Explore finalizing FileSearchProvider API vscode#73524 Andrea Mah (@andreamah)
• 🏃 Explore finalizing TextSearchProvider API vscode#59921 Andrea Mah (@andreamah)

Issue Reporter

• 🏃 Continue migrating desktop issue report to auxiliary service approach vscode#213332 Justin Chen (@justschen)
• Incorporate issue reporter participation into yo code generator vscode#220969 Justin Chen (@justschen)

Languages

Python

• Contributions to the Python extension, see plan Karthik Nadig (@karthiknadig) team

Language Server Protocol

• Investigate into delaying open event to avoid sending open/close notification pairs to the server when VS Code reads file contents #lsp-848 Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)

Testing

• ✋ Finalize attributable test coverage API vscode#212196 Connor Peet (@connor4312)
• Support stack traces in test messages vscode#214488 Connor Peet (@connor4312)
• Explore support for related code vscode#126932 Connor Peet (@connor4312)

Debug

Debug Adapter Protocol

• 💪 Explore green thread support debug-adapter-protocol#339 Connor Peet (@connor4312)

Terminal

• Adopt esbuild and ship ESM module with xterm.js xterm.js#2878 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• Adopt VS Code scrollbar in xterm.js vscode#216521 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• 🏃 Finalize shellIntegration API vscode#145234 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• 🏃 Iterating on pwsh suggest and PromptInputModel vscode#154662 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)

Source Control

• 🏃 Graph visualization for Incoming/Ougoing view vscode#215439 Ladislau Szomoru (@lszomoru)
• Adopt shell integration API for git commands vscode#220995 Ladislau Szomoru (@lszomoru) Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)

API

• 🏃 API proposals: query Johannes Rieken (@jrieken) Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• 🏃 API finalization: query Johannes Rieken (@jrieken) Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)

Extensions

• Print packaged extension contents on package/publish vscode-vsce#995 Benjamin Christopher Simmonds (@benibenj)
• Polish extension auto-update mechanism vscode#219720 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)

Extension Contributions

• Support reverting merged PR changes vscode-pull-request-github#2103 Alex Ross (@alexr00)

Engineering

• 🏃 Explore AMD to ESM migration vscode#160416 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken) Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)

Electron

• Electron 30 upgrade vscode#214394 Robo (@deepak1556)
• 🏃 V8: Support usage of external array buffers for embedders in sandbox mode chromium#14585 Robo (@deepak1556)
• Adopt basic auth support for net api in utility process vscode#212949 Robo (@deepak1556)

Documentation

• 💪 Update Getting Started experience doc vsocde-docs#7359 Nick Trogh (@ntrogh)

Deferred

• Explore GPU rendering of the code editor vscode#221145 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar) Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
• Support Exceptions for result return types #wasm-177 Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
• Add SCM accessibility help dialog vscode#203577 Ladislau Szomoru (@lszomoru) Megan Rogge (@meganrogge)