Iteration Plan for September 2020

[kieferrm]

This plan captures our work in September. We will ship in early October. This is a 4-week iteration. Heads-up: In October we'll have our annual house-keeping iteration.

Endgame

• September 28th, 2020: Endgame begins
• October 2nd, 2020: Endgame done

The endgame details for this iteration are tracked in #107567.

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

Accessibility

• Accessibility issues, see query team
• Revisit navigation model of the settings UI Settings editor accessibility improvements prototype feedback #104318 @roblourens @sana-ajani

Workbench

• 🏃 Use encrypted keychain for account management Use encrypted keychain for account management #95475 @RMacfarlane @sbatten
• Undo/redo of workspace edit file operations, support linked undo operations Support linked undo operations #101789 @alexdima
• Pinned tabs polish: support to show more context for a pinned tab Pinned tabs: add a setting to show more context #98161 @bpasero
• Include Select Settings Sync Service... action as part of Settings Sync: Configure... Include select service flow into the configure command and turn on sync wizard #104496 @sandy081
• 🏃 💪 Explore the concept of Trusted Workspaces General Discussion on Workspace Trust Feature #106488 @Tyriar @lszomoru
• 🏃 💪 Investigate predefined file filters search (Investigate predefined file filters search #106790) @JacksonKearl

UX

• 🏃 Explore possible integrations between extensions view and GH Sponsors Explore integration between extensions view and GitHub Sponsors #107482 @misolori
• 🏃 💪 Explore improvements to welcome pages Explore improvements to welcome pages #106715 @misolori @JacksonKearl

Notebook Editor

• API to associate a notebook cell document with its notebook Better API to associate a notebook cell document with its notebook #102091 @jrieken
• 🏃 Identify and fill API gaps for Live Share API gaps to support Liveshare in Notebook #102503 @rebornix
• 🏃 Explore improved UX for kernel management Explore ux for switching notebook kernels/connections #106519 @misolori
• 🏃 Explore API implications for allowing multiple notebook extensions to share the same file format Explore API implications for allowing multiple notebook extensions to share the same file format #106694 @rebornix @roblourens
• 🏃 Review of the current state of the proposed Notebook API Notebook API evolution #106744 @jrieken team

Languages

LSP / LSIF

• LSP: Add support for Codeactions.disabled @dbaeumer
• LSP: Support to defer workspace edit computation for code actions (see also Support to resolve code actions #106410) @dbaeumer
• Stabilize the LSIF TypeScript indexer so that it can index the source of VS Code and its satellite repositories @dbaeumer

Debug

• Consolidate auto-attach configuration flows Make auto attach toggle workspace settings by default #105883 The less settings the better vscode-js-debug#732 Status bar toggle should switch between On, Smart, Off #105963 Debug: Toggle Auto Attach should change user settings by default, not workspace settings #97087 @connor4312
• Explore support for theme colors in the flame graph visualizer for js profiles Support customizing the color of the flamegraph vscode-js-debug#756 @connor4312 @misolori
• 💪 Explore performance view for js-debug @connor4312 Add realtime performance view for js-debug vscode-js-debug#755
• Implement the DAP "invalidate" event (refresh Variables view) Implement the DAP "invalidated" event #106745 @isidorn @weinand
• Console polish: show number of filtered console items Show number of filtered debug console items #105866, support to copy all Feature: Copy all in debug console as plain text #28094 @isidorn
• Remember dynamic launch configurations Run menu does not remember dynamic launch configurations #96293 @isidorn
• Address "path casing" issues for debug DAP sources are case sensitive on insensitive filesystems #106382 @isidorn
• Investigate how to show the editor hover while debugging Provide a way to show the editor hover while debugging #84561 @isidorn @weinand

DAP

Investigations/reviews for:

• 🏃 Support out-of-scope variables (aka "object IDs") Proposal: Support object IDs debug-adapter-protocol#134 @weinand
• Allow conditional exception breakpoints Proposal: allow conditional exception breakpoints debug-adapter-protocol#137 @weinand

Testing

• 🏃 Explore how to improve testing support Testing in VS Code #107467 @connor4312 @sandy081

API

• Explore how to support organizing imports on Paste Add events for copy/paste to allow language extensions to bring using/import statements along #30066 @mjbvz
• Support to resolve code actions Support to resolve code actions #106410 (see also Support for 'codeAction/resolve' language-server-protocol#787) @jrieken
• Investigate support for contributing presentations like a Type Hierarchy to the References View Enable to contribute content to references view #106929 @jrieken
• API finalization: query
• API proposals: query

Extension Contributions

• Improvements to the Remote extensions Remote: Iteration Plan for September 2020 vscode-remote-release#3669 team
• Improvements to the GitHub PR and Issues extension Plan for September 2020 vscode-pull-request-github#2134 @alexr00 @RMacfarlane @eamodio
• Improve the eslint security warning dialog Popups with every folder I open vscode-eslint#1012 @dbaeumer

Engineering

• Support ARM/Raspberry Pi Linux Official Support for ARM/Raspberry Pi Linux (armhf, arm64) #6442 @joaomoreno
• 🏃 Make VSCode Trusted Types compliant Trusted Types compatibility: Make VSCode TrustedTypes compliant #103699 @jrieken and team

Bots

• Add support for cc-ing contributors when issues are being labeled Bot to subscribe folks to issues based on labels being added #106682 @JacksonKearl

Electron

• Electron 9 follow-up https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Aelectron-9-update @deepak1556

Node.js-free, sandboxed renderer

• 🏃 Backlog Implement a node.js-free, sandboxed, context isolated renderer  #92164 @bpasero @deepak1556

Monaco Editor

• Ship a new version of the Monaco Editor - https://github.com/microsoft/monaco-editor/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#0210-21092020 @alexdima

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Deferred Items

• Adopt insider versions of TS 4.1 Support TS 4.1 beta #106702 @mjbvz
• 🔴 Improved UI guidelines for custom editors/views @misolori
• LSP: Add support for rename on type @dbaeumer
• Support optional branch selection in the GitHub repository picker Git: Support optional branch picking in the repository picker #106664 @joaomoreno
• 💪 Settings Sync: View doesn't move when view order is changed on another synced machine Sync: View doesn't move when order changes in server #93909 @sandy081
• 💪 Settings UI - support a color picker for color settings @lszomoru setting UI: support color settings #106041
• 💪 Explore notebook keymap support Explore notebook keymap support #106679 @rebornix @roblourens
• 💪 Explore extensible markdown rendering for notebooks Explore customizing the markdown renderer for notebooks #106701 @mjbvz
• 💪 Improve the inline value support Extension API for Inline Values #105690 @weinand
• 💪 Support object favorites Proposal: Support object favorites debug-adapter-protocol#132 @weinand
• 💪 Investigate into installing the Remote-WSL extension out of the box on Windows Investigation: Installing a WSL extension out of the box on Windows #106759 @joaomoreno @lszomoru
• 💪 Rework CLI to allow to use the macOS launch service Launch the app via open cmd on macOS #102975 @deepak1556 @bpasero
• 💪 Stabilize Apple Silicon exploration builds Stablize apple silicon exploration builds #106770 @deepak1556 team

[yubaoquan]

Since electron support background transparent setting, is there a plan of enabling user to set the background of vscode transparent?

[Milo123459]

When tauri becomes stable, do you think VSCode will move to it?
A few perks are that it is very memory efficient, so might be good for the program.
It's planned to become stable around the end of this year.

[idk-pixel]

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[cpoptic]

Is there a plan to add "execution time" for Jupyter notebook cells? I've been seeing screenshots of VS Code notebooks with execution time at the bottom of the cell, but didn't know if this is native in VS Code now or if an extension is required.

If an extension is needed to display notebook cell execution times, which extension is it? Tthanks

[nathan130200]

Since 2016, and #13960 still not fixed... Really?

[m6502]

I second @nathan130200 comment. Please, Virtual Space is an important feature for many people. Many of us have been following this project for a long time but don't make a serious use of it because of #13960.

[nathan130200]

@m6502 Same. They need fix #13960 with high priority importance!

[biosmanager]

@nathan130200 @m6502 I also think virtual space is an essential feature of any text editor and should be implemented with utmost priority!

[hyiltiz]

Please support native libsecret or keyutils support on linux so other projects such as Live Share doesn't have to depend on gnome-keyring; many people use XFCE, KDE or something else.