Iteration Plan for June 2022

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

Endgame

• June 27, 2022: Endgame begins
• July 1, 2022: 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:

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 @isidorn team

UX

• 🏃 Improve the discoverability of filtering in tree views vscode#146806 @misolori @joaomoreno
• Explore "Do Not Disturb" mode and its implications on existing scenarios vscode#144324 @daviddossett @bpasero
• 💪 Improve editor group focus states in high contrast themes vscode#145563 @daviddossett

Workbench

• 🏃 Support profile management vscode#116740 @sandy081 @sana-ajani @daviddossett
• Profiles: Support global state isolation per profile vscode#151490 @bpasero @sandy081
• 🔴 💪 Support hiding toolbar items using right click @jrieken
• 🏃 Explore Continue On... support in core vscode#141293 @joyceerhl
• Explore a Share as... menu for creating vscode.dev links vscode#146309 @alexr00
• Adopt inline suggestions for previewing emmet expansions vscode#139247 @rzhao271 @hediet
• Polish Command Palette launcher in titlebar vscode#149445 @jrieken @sbatten
• Settings Editor: Improve setting override indicators UX when many items are present vscode#151787 @rzhao271
• Settings Editor: Indicate if setting has a language-specific value vscode#145731 @rzhao271
• ✋ Adopt Window Control Overlay API in electron 18 vscode#147947 @sbatten
• Enable group policy support for UpdateMode vscode#147756 @joaomoreno
• Use merge editor for resolving conflicts in settings sync vscode#151940 @sandy081

Web

• 🏃 Continue translations in the web vscode#82595 @TylerLeonhardt
  • Support built-in extension translations in web
  • Support marketplace extenson translations in web
• Explore how a web extension can leverage the WebUSB API vscode#116761 @mjbvz @alexdima
• Support built-in themes in /theme vscode#152884 @aeschli
• Explore a partial WASI implementation using the VS Code API vscode#149092 @dbaeumer
• 🏃 Explore setting COOP and COEP headers on vscode.dev vscode#137884 @jrieken

Code Editor

• Merge editor vscode#146091 @hediet @jrieken @bpasero
• Context menu on the minimap to hide/show it vscode#148131 @alexdima
• Eliminate notification that shows when there are too many folding regions vscode#142496 @aeschli
• Add command to preview refactorings vscode#151140 @justschen
• 🏃 Start exploring using a custom widget for code actions vscode#152913 @justschen

Comments

• Allow to disable comments altogether vscode#149176 @alexr00
• 💪 Comments view should have ability to filter by resolved/unresolved vscode#150958 @alexr00

Notebook Editor

• Retain controller on saveAs or save of an untitled notebook vscode#151158 @roblourens
• Improve notebook “scrolling up” rendering performance vscode#148164 @roblourens
• 💪 Explore improving files search results for notebooks vscode#95275 @roblourens
• 🏃 Investigate support for hot exit in interactive window vscode#151444 @lramos15 @rebornix
• Improve selecting a renderer when multiple are registered for the same output mime-type vscode#148724 @rebornix

Jupyter Notebooks

• 🏃 Explore improve first-run experience for running a Jupyter notebook; board; @brettcannon @lramos15 @IanMatthewHuff @karrtikr @minsa110
• Contributions to the vscode-jupyter extension vscode-jupyter#10430 @greazer team

Languages

AnyCode

• None.

LSP

• None.

Python

• Contributions to the python extension vscode-python#19286 @brettcannon team
• Resolve language server restart issues with pylance LSP microsoft/TypeScript#1005 @dbaeumer

JavaScript/TypeScript

• Support TS server plugins on web vscode#140455 @mjbvz
• ✋ Support TS project-wide intellisense on web typescript#47600 @mjbvz
• ✋ Explore automatic type acqusition on web typescript#45314 @mjbvz

Markdown

• 🏃 Finalize DropIntoEditor API for creating file and image links vscode#142990 @mjbvz
• 🏃 Finalize DocumentPasteEditProvider API to support pasting images vscode#30066 @mjbvz

CSS

• None.

JSON

• 💪 Explore test suite from JSON schema spec vscode-json-languageservice#120 @aeschli

Debug

• Show breakpoint diagnostic information in the breakpoints view vscode#142870 @roblourens
• Support to pass unescaped arguments in launch.json vscode#149910 @roblourens @weinand
• Improving the UI for "step in targets" vscode#149871 @connor4312
• Add keyboard shortcuts to switch debug consoles vscode#151772 @andreamah
• Add debug consoles to view quick access menu vscode#152400 @andreamah
• Add quick access for debug consoles vscode#151771 @andreamah
• 🏃 Remove special treatment of extension debugging in VS Code (Prototype extension debugging in a clean environment) vscode#126737 @weinand

DAP

• Support to pass unescaped program arguments debug-adapter-protocol#146 @weinand @roblourens
• Add additional location information to StepInTarget debug-adapter-protocol#274 @connor4312 @weinand

js-debug

• Investigate: Smart Step Into vscode#123879 @connor4312
• Allow easy toggling between sourcemaps and compiled code vscode#151412 @connor4312
• 💪 Improve breakpoint predictor caching for large projects vscode-js-debug#1149 @connor4312
• 💪 Automatically create debug config with a "dry run" vscode-js-debug#1214 @connor4312

Testing

• None.

Terminal

• Prepare to make shell integration the default vscode#151935 @Tyriar @meganrogge
• Address issues with terminal reconnection vscode#151936 @Tyriar
• Improve accessibility in the terminal vscode#151938 @Tyriar
• Explore contextual actions in the terminal vscode#151937 @Tyriar

Tasks

• 🏃 Change feature area ownership of tasks vscode#149060 @meganrogge @Tyriar @alexr00
• Explore reconnecting tasks on window reload vscode#117408 @meganrogge
• Support configurable icons and color for tasks vscode#145965 @meganrogge

Source Control

• Full editor can be used as git commit message editor vscode#30562 @lszomoru
• 💪 Investigate: Support input box spell checking vscode#35571 @lszomoru

API

• API finalization: query @jrieken @mjbvz
• API proposals: query @jrieken @mjbvz
• 🏃 Support snippets in workspace edits vscode/145374 @jrieken
• 🏃 Continue finalization of remaining proposed notebook API vscode#149861) @mjbvz @rebornix @roblourens
• Finalize API to disable the Source Control input field vscode#150268 @lszomoru

Extensions

• Provide a filter to list all deprecated extensions vscode#151729 @sandy081

Extension Contributions

• GitHub Repositories: query @joyceerhl
• Improvements to the Remote extensions vscode-remote-release#6818 @tanhakabir @chrmarti @aeschli
• GHPR: Improvements papercuts, selfhosting issues, query @alexr00
• 🏃 Close the loop between committing and creating a PR vscode#151589 @alexr00 @lszomoru

Install / Update

• Windows: Unable to update vscode#147408 @joaomoreno
• Windows: Prevent update service from activating if running as Admin in User install vscode#148428 @joaomoreno
• Integrate with the Windows 11 explorer context menu vscode#127365 @deepak1556

Engineering

• Sandbox: enable extension host communication vscode#135268 @deepak1556 @alexdima
• 🏃 Review errors to identify which ones are actionable as error telemetry vscode#145043 @lramos15 team
• Explore spliting compilation and transpilation into two distinct gulp tasks @jrieken
• 🏃 Explore using swc for transpilation vscode#150025 @jrieken
• Execute tests in parallel in CI build vscode#151740 @lszomoru
• 💪 Enable contextIsolation for all windows vscode#128099 @bpasero @rzhao271 @deepak1556

Electron

• Electron 18 update vscode#145527 @deepak1556
• 🏃 Improve dependency generation for Debian vscode#13089 @rzhao271
• WCO on Windows don't respond to touch events electron#34364 @deepak1556
• WCO on Windows occludes dev tools electron#34129 @deepak1556

Documentation

• Improve TS docs vscode-docs#5205 @gregvanl @isidorn
• 🏃 Review and update Integrated Terminal vscode-docs#4809 @gregvanl @Tyriar

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Deferred

• Allow resizing for the find widget in notebooks vscode#141516 @rebornix
• Support copying simple output to the clipboard vscode#129880 @amunger @rebornix
• Show changes in the overview ruler of the notebook diff editor vscode#146224 @amunger @rebornix
• Provide support for Go to Test/Go to Test Subject vscode#126932 @connor4312
• Align editor find widget with the notebook find widget vscode#144851 @rebornix
• Make the eslint extension more approachable for new contributors vscode-eslint#1447 @dbaeumer
• Investigate eslint notebook support in the web vscode-eslint#1366 @dbaeumer
• Draft Git Beginner's Docs vscode-docs#5033 @digitarald @burkeholland
• Investigate providing a default snippet for a language vscode#145929 @jrieken @digitarald