Jupyter: Iteration Plan for October 2021

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This plan captures our work in October. 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

Housekeeping

• Issue/PR Grooming - review, categorization, assignment vscode-jupyter#7876 team

Notebooks

• Key bugs to address
  • Any issue labeled important. Typically driven through Golden Scenario runs. @greazer team
  • Enhancements to data science survey vscode-jupyter#6976 @IanMatthewHuff
  • github.dev: All "Run" options for notebooks should lead to the "Continue Working On" prompt options vscode#132057 @roblourens
  • Native Notebooks - Hide Jupyter contributed toolbar icons for non-jupyter kernels vscode-jupyter#6543 @DonJayamanne
• 🏃 Improve key kernel enumeration, selection, startup, crashing, hanging issues. vscode-jupyter#7853 @DonJayamanne
  • Identified during investigation vscode-jupyter#7373 @DonJayamanne
  • Identified during investigation vscode-jupyter#7374 (may be moot after fix for 7373) @DonJayamanne
• Improve key intellisense scenarios for notebooks. vscode-jupyter#7877 @rchiodo & pylance team
• Improve quality and stability overall. vscode-jupyter#7879 team

Engineering

• 💪 🏃 Update old webview tests to work against native vscode-jupyter#6516, vscode-jupyter#7028 @rchiodo
• 💪 🏃 Simplify Code clean-up/simplification in the Jupyter extension vscode-jupyter#6950 @DonJayamanne @rchiodo
• 💪 Provide automated performance test suite vscode-jupyter#7437 team

Deferred

• None.