Python: Iteration Plan for May 2022

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This plan captures our work in May. 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.

Legend of annotations

Mark	Description
🏃‍♀️	work in progress
✋	blocked task
💪	stretch goal for this iteration
🔴	missing issue reference
🔵	more investigation required to remove uncertainty
⚫	under discussion within the team
⬛	a large work item, larger than one iteration

Getting started

• Create the WWBD extension w/ an opinionated flow for environment creation and requirements installation; @brettcannon
• Detect when VS Code is launched from an activated virtual environment in WWBD; discussion; @brettcannon
• 🏃‍ Explore how to notify the user they don't have Python installed when installing the Python extension for the first time; issue; @kimadeline @luabud @brettcannon

Environments

• Investigate environment detection in our overall environment UX to see if there are scenarios where discovery is unnecessary; issue @karrtikr
• Separate environment discovery into a two phases, "raw" and "enriched", so Jupyter can consume the former ASAP; issue @karrtikr
• 🏃‍♀️ Work on finalizing design of proposed API for environments; issue @karrtikr

Editing

None

LSP

• Create a programmatic definition of LSP; issue; @karthiknadig
• ✋ Explore pygls adopting programmatic definition of LSP (for notebook support); issue; @karthiknadig

Terminal

• 🔵 Explore options for activated terminals and terminal profiles vscode-python#11039 @luabud @karrtikr

Debugging

• 🏃‍♀️ 🔵 Investigate automatic debug configuration based on the open workspace for Django, Flask, and FastAPI; issue; @paulacamargo25 @karthiknadig

Formatting

• 🏃‍♀️ Create an extension template (formatting); issue; @karthiknadig
• 💪 Create a autopep8 extension from the new template; issue; !@karthiknadig

Linting

• 🏃‍♀️ Create an extension template (linting); issue; @karthiknadig
• 💪 Create a flake8 extension from the new template; issue; !@karthiknadig

Testing

• 🏃‍♀️ ⬛ Rewrite test execution for unittest; issue; @kimadeline

(github|vscode).dev

None

Documentation

None

Engineering

• Set up localization (desktop); issue; @paulacamargo25 @TylerLeonhardt

Python community

• Deprecate over 21 stdlib modules thanks to PEP 594; @brettcannon
• ✋ Finalize Python Launcher plug-in design (blocked on conda's feedback); discussion; @brettcannon
• Look at https://github.com/njsmith/pybi-tools; @brettcannon
• Implement PEP 685 for packaging; issue; @brettcannon
• ✋ Set up a buildbot for WebAssembly (blocked on buildbot changes); @brettcannon

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Deferred Items

• Write web tests; issue; @karthiknadig
• ✋ 🔵 Work w/ Pylance on automatic indentation vscode-python#481 @brettcannon (blocked on VS Code issue)
• ✋ Create platform-specific VSIXs (blocked on standardizing on extension pipelines supporting platform-specific VSIXs); vscode-python#17439 @paulacamargo25
• Infer environment variables for an activated conda environment vscode-python#17332 @karrtikr
• Rewrite test discovery for pytest vscode-python#17242 @kimadeline
• Rewrite test execution for pytest
• ✋ Start work on implementing packaging.metadata; issue; @brettcannon
• ✋ Move the environment details to the language status menu(waiting for users to adjust to the info being on the right-hand side); @karrtikr