Remote Iteration Plan for May 2021

[kieferrm]

This plan captures our work in May. We follow the same iteration cycle as VS Code. Although we plan for a whole iteration, we 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

Remote Core

• Port forwarding
  • Warn on port collisions when forwarding ports Warn on port collisions when forwarding ports  #4958 @alexr00
  • Add option to disable auto port forwarding but still get the process association for a port Let Ports view users turn off auto forwarding but still poll for process information. #4923 @alexr00
  • Provide command to remove all forwarded ports Remove multiple or all forwarded ports  vscode#121780 @alexr00
  • Support to define the protocol to be used when connecting to a forwarded port After port forwarding allow to open the brower with https:// vscode#123750 @alexr00

Remote-SSH

• 💪 Provide an option for a pre-configured range of ports that the server can use Support custom remote ports #1386 @roblourens

Remote-Container

• Trusted Folder/Workspaces support for remote containers Trusted Folder/Workspaces support for remote containers #5067 @chrmarti @lszomoru @alexdima
• Merge PATH environment variable when probing the user environment Merge PATH environment variable when probing the user environment #5032 @chrmarti
• Align the use of Volumes for 'Try a Development Container Sample with the 'Clone a Repository in Container Volume' Containers - Try a Sample - clone repository into a new volume #4955 @egamma
• Engineering: explore publishing the extension through a CI/CD flow Explore publishing Remote-Containers through CI/CD #5069 @chrmarti

Remote Samples

• None.

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Deferred

• None.