Remote: Iteration Plan for November 2022

[kieferrm]

This plan captures our work in November. 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

Dev Container Specification / CLI

• GPU requirement PR devcontainers/cli#173 @chrmarti
• Handle Cygwin / Git Bash sockets forwarding on Windows PR devcontainers/cli#82 @chrmarti
• Bundle @devcontainers/cli devcontainers/cli#279 @chrmarti
• Consume bundled @devcontainers/cli vscode-remote-release#7508 @chrmarti

Dev Containers Extension

• Polish "Create Dev Container..." flow vscode-remote-release#7461 @chrmarti
• 🏃 Full support for folders with multiple devcontainer.json files vscode-remote-release#7548 @chrmarti
• 💪 🔴 Take advantage of container metadata when attaching @chrmarti

WSL

• 💪 Download server bits when updating and WSL was used recently vscode-remote-release#3839@aeschli

Remote-SSH

• Improvements to SSH config file parsing/writing vscode-remote-release#7321 @eleanorjboyd @roblourens
• Surface error to user if no available ports exist vscode-remote-release#5970 @eleanorjboyd @roblourens
• 🏃 Adopt new error type in SSH resolver vscode#163241 @eleanorjboyd @roblourens
• 💪 Attempt reconnection following device short sleep vscode-remote-release#5755 @eleanorjboyd @roblourens

Remote-Tunnel

• Compress data over the websocket: vscode#163688 @connor4312
• NixOS compatibility: vscode-remote-release#7129 @connor4312
• 🏃 Prevent sleep: vscode-remote-release#7125 @connor4312
• 'local download' mode: vscode-remote-release#6959 @connor4312

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Deferred

• None.