Remote: Iteration Plan for November 2021

[kieferrm]

This plan captures our work in November. 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.

Plan Items

Below is a summary of the top level plan items.

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

Core

• Improve connection stability between the VS Code client and Server vscode#137863 @alexdima

Remote-SSH

• Provide an option for a pre-configured range of ports that the server can use vscode-remote-release#1386 @tanhakabir

Remote-Container

• Start to explore "Reopen Folder in Container" from SSH vscode-remote-release#2994 @chrmarti
• Review/add commands to be surfaced when connected from WSL vscode-remote-release#5765 @chrmarti
• 'Add development configuration files' support to navigate to the documentation for a feature/configuration microsoft/vscode-remote-release#5899 @chrmarti
• Use the pre-built alpine image for the recovery container microsoft/vscode-remote-release#5897 @chrmarti
• Engineering: generate 3rd party usages automatically microsoft/vscode-remote-release#5898 @chrmarti @lszomoru

Remote-WSL

• Engineering: Explore communicating with WSL using stdin/stdout instead of TCP/IP to increase connection reliability vscode-remote-release#5894 @aeschli

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Deferred

• None.