Python: Iteration Plan for May 2024

[kieferrm]

This plan captures our work on the Python Extension in May 2024. 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

• 🏃‍♀️ Investigate creating template repos for various project types; issue; @cwebster-99

Environments

• 🏃‍♀️ ⬛ Implement Environments view UI (aka Don's environment extension); issue; @karthiknadig
  • 🏃‍♀️ Native locator for globally installed python and virtual environments; issue; @karthiknadig @DonJayamanne
• Gather feedback on environments panel UI; issue; @cwebster-99 @karthiknadig
• 💪 Formalize Python project/packages structure and content for opinionated flow; issue; @cwebster-99 @karthiknadig

Editing

N/A

Terminal

• 💪 Add other shell types to core; issue; @anthonykim1

REPL

• Spike to find common ground between Python REPL and IW; issue; @anthonykim1 @amunger
• 🏃‍♀️ built-in Python REPL implementation issue @anthonykim1 @amunger

Debugging

• 🏃‍♀️ Improve "Run and debug" button support; issue; @paulacamargo25
• 🏃‍♀️ Investigate a debug terminal with shell integration; issue; @paulacamargo25
• Investigate dynamically detecting production, staging, and development configurations for Django; issue; @paulacamargo25

Testing

• Address pytest dicovery failure with ENOENT; issue @eleanorjboyd
• 🏃‍♀️ Dynamically handle test framework on activation; issue; @eleanorjboyd
• 🏃‍♀️ Plan custom args user study; issue; @eleanorjboyd @cwebster-99 @paulacamargo25

vscode.dev

N/A

Documentation

N/A

API

N/A

Engineering

N/A

Python community

• PyCon US planning; @dawnwages
• Prepare for PyCon LSP booth presentation; @karthiknadig
• PyCon remote; @eleanorjboyd @anthonykim1

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Deferred Items

• 💪 Unify Python REPL triggers; issue; @anthonykim1
• 🔵🏃‍♀️ Adopt proposed API for testing coverage feature; issue; @eleanorjboyd
• Investigate contributing a callout for automatic configuration in Debug Start View; issue; @paulacamargo25
• 💪 Start refactoring code for custom args; issue; @eleanorjboyd
• 🏃‍♀️ ⬛ Implement a dependency resolver with a customizable API; @brettcannon
• 🏃 Add launch support for test discovery and execution in settings.json; issue @eleanorjboyd
• Implement a Python traceback problem matcher in core
• ✋ 🔴 Use conda run when debugging (waiting on the conda team to give us the go-ahead to rely on conda run so fundamentally); @paulacamargo25
• Investigate how we configure running and debugging
• ✋ Write web tests; issue; @karthiknadig
• Unify venvPath and venvFolders; issue
• 🔴 💪 Investigate a contribution point for workflow extensions; @karthiknadig

[Pythagoras222]

Verify syntactic tokenization.