Remote: Iteration Plan for March 2022

[kieferrm]

This plan captures our work in March. 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
⬛	a large work item, larger than one iteration

Core

• Ship darwin arm64 server support #vscode-remote#4069 @alexdima
• Report remote extension host crashes more gracefully and auto recover if possible vscode#143645 @alexdima

Remote-SSH

• 🏃 Adopt darwin arm64 server support for connecting to Apple M1 #vscode-remote#4069 @tanhakabir

Remote-Container

• 🏃 Move settings and extensions properties to vscode namespace dev-container-spec#1 @chrmarti
• Support to install pre-release extensions into a dev container and expose this in the devcontainer.json vscode#143540 @sandy081 @chrmarti

Remote-WSL

• None.

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Deferred

• Honor user-defined values for SSH_ASKPASS vscode-remote-release#4747 @tanhakabir
• 🔴 Investigate terminal errors when opening a remote folder in a local window @tanhakabir