Iteration Plan for September 2019

[kieferrm]

This plan captures our work in September. This is a 5-week iteration. We will ship our September Update in early October.

This iteration will be followed by a housekeeping iteration in October. Before we focus on issue grooming and issue reduction, we want to make progress on work we started in the Summer such as the API for custom editors and settings sync providers, or our overhaul of how tokenziation works in the editor. We also will spend some time polishing our UI. Examples are improving the presentation of hovers and completion items and alignment octicons with our new icon style. See below for details.

Endgame

• Sept 30, 2019: Endgame begins
• Oct 4, 2019: Endgame done

The endgame details for this iteration are tracked in tbd.

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

UX

• 🏃 Update Octicons to match new icon style Update Octicons to match new icon style #76909 @misolori
• 🏃 Explore settings sync UX Explore settings sync UX #78869 @misolori @sandy081

Workbench

• 🏃 Support for custom editors Custom webview editor API #77131 @mjbvz @jrieken
• 🏃 Use icon fonts for product icons Use icon fonts for product icons #78889 @misolori @bpasero
• 🏃 Implement a compressible tree widget Introduce CompressibleObjectTree #77876 @joaomoreno
• 🏃 Option for merging sequences of single child directories in the Explorer (compressible tree widget) Explorer: Support compact folder rendering #41627 @joaomoreno @isidorn
• 🏃 Explore aligning the presentation of hovers and completion items Hover / Suggest widget inconsistencies #78718 @octref
• Show current selection in the minimap Enhancement: Minimap position highlight  #21404 @RMacfarlane
• Polish link protection UI Link Protection Improvements #80595 @octref @misolori
• 🏃 Polish workbench gridlayout query @sbatten

Editor

• Publish a new version of the Monaco editor https://github.com/microsoft/monaco-editor/releases/tag/v0.18.0 @rebornix
• 🏃 Revisit the tokenization implementation with the end goal to support asynchronous semantic coloring Tokenization overhaul #77140 @alexandrudima
• 🏃 Explore theming support for semantic colors [themes] Explore theming support for semantic colors #77133 @aeschli

Languages

• 🏃 Support for a Call Hierarchy navigation api to support call hierarchy view #70231 @jrieken

LSP / LSIF

• Update LSP spec to version 3.15 https://github.com/microsoft/language-server-protocol/tree/dbaeumer/3.15 @dbaeumer
• Support deprecated Symbols [Client] no support for LSP CompletionItem deprecated property vscode-languageserver-node#450 @dbaeumer
• 🏃 Productize the TypeScript LSIF indexer https://github.com/microsoft/lsif-node/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Aupdated-desc+label%3Abug @dbaeumer
• Specify the LSIF indexer tool CLI Specify the index command line arguments lsif-node#67 @dbaeumer
• 💪 Support Call Hierarchy navigation Call Hierarchy language-server-protocol#468 @dbaeumer

CSS/HTML/JSON

• Add semicolon on autocompletion of css properties [css] add semicolon on value completion #32200 @octref

Debug

• Allow reloading/stopping/pausing sessions inline in the tree Allow reloading / stopping / pausing sessions inline in the tree #79189 @isidorn @weinand
• Support cancellation in DAP communication Support cancellation in DAP communication #80374 @isidorn @weinand
• Enable to combine Debugger console for multiple sessions in a single console Need launch config option to disable multiple debug consoles #62419 @isidorn @weinand 
• Support visual hints for inline breakpoints (add support in protocol Find the possible Breakpoints for a source line debug-adapter-protocol#72, explore UI Show visual hints for inline breakpoints #31612) @isidorn @weinand

SCM

• Adopt compressed trees in the SCM view @joaomoreno
  • Show changes in tree-like format SCM: Show changes in tree-like format #14582
  • Support view filter SCM: Support view filter #30199

Terminal

• Publish xterm.js v4 https://github.com/xtermjs/xterm.js/milestone/22 @Tyriar

API

• API finalization: query
• API proposals: query
• 🏃 Remove the deprecated rootPath Investigation: do not restart Extension host when first folder changes #69335 @roblourens
• Allow for [Completion|Symbol]Item tags/modifiers Allow for [Completion|Symbol]Kind modifiers #23927 @jrieken
• 🏃 Explore settings sync provider API Explore user data sync API #78966 @sandy081

Extensions

• Support for installing extensions with platform specific dependencies Support Platform Specific Extensions #23251 @joaomoreno

Extension Contributions

• Improvements to the Remote extensions (see plan here) team

Engineering

• 🔴 Explore converting SCM smoke tests into integration tests @joaomoreno
• Align TSB with 'tsc -watch' behaviour (file discorvery) @jrieken
• 🏃 Continue exploring upgrade to Electron 6.0 Update to Electron 6 #76069 @deepak1556
• 🏃 Adopt strictPropertyInitialization Enable strictPropertyInitialization #78168 @alexandrudima team
• 🏃 Work with Chromium on issue https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=978325 @mjbvz
• Bump Chromium version of electron 8 chore: bump chromium to 63be48daea281d4f8c834c2e707a7 (master) electron/electron#19923 @deepak1556

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Deferred Items

• Identify the work required to use chrome process architecture Experiment with upcoming default electron process model app.allowRendererProcessReuse #79138 @deepak1556
• 🏃 Increase automation for upgrading to newer Electron versions Automate electron upgrades #77159 @deepak1556
• 🏃 Convert native modules to NAPI Convert native module dependencies to N-API #79137 @deepak1556
• 🏃 Improve keyboard support for in completion item lists keyboard shortcuts to choose an intellisense suggestion? #24918 @octref
• Explore Saas variable completion across files [scss] instellisense doesn't work when importing variables from separate file #6734 @octref

[mhermis2011]

I went to view fullscreen mode and now I can't exit full screen mode even when I shut the app down and reopen it

[dalisoft]

Maybe anyone from VSCode team wanna fix #76537? Or available alternative to VSCode with same design (especially GUI find), maybe Oni v2?

[xiaok0928]

If you can, can you include the #29126 problem in the plan? After all, many people are worried about it.

[lijh8]

please fix this for outline view:
Adopt new DocumentSymbol API
microsoft/vscode-cpptools#2230

[kanlukasz]

Why are you returning to the older Electron?

From what I see, the last but one Insider update was

Version: 1.39.0-insider
Commit: 575062278d181c075ea8dce345ab3d20a127309c
Date: 2019-09-20T06:11:13.647Z

Electron: 6.0.9

Chrome: 76.0.3809.146
Node.js: 12.4.0
V8: 7.6.303.31-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.18362

Now we have:

Version: 1.39.0-insider
Commit: 79978f96d3501f14b235ed0a33a7360772a726a3
Date: 2019-09-30T14:18:14.941Z

Electron: 4.2.10

Chrome: 69.0.3497.128
Node.js: 10.11.0
V8: 6.9.427.31-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.18362

[Tyriar]

@kanlukasz see https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Aelectron-blocker

[jregistr]

🤞 🤞 🤞 Option for merging sequences of single child directories in the Explorer (compressible tree widget) #41627 @joaomoreno @isidorn

[danilaml]

@Tyriar both open issues seem to be already fixed in Electron.

[Tyriar]

@danilaml they are now because the team has been working on them. It's too risky to update Electron for this version though.

[TonioGela]

@jregistr apparently no luck, it's marked as still in progress :(