Iteration Plan for October 2020

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This plan captures our work in October. This is a 4-week iteration. We will ship in early November.

As you can see the plan is rather lean as this is our annual house-keeping iteration. You'll see a large number of GitHub issue notifications over the course of this iteration. If you want to track our progress, @lannonbr a while back created this nice website: https://vscode-github-stats.netlify.com/

If you are interested in why we have issue house keeping iterations and in our general philosophy around issue management, then we have this write-up for you.

House-keeping is not the only focus this iteration. We'll also work closely with our partners at GitHub to get GitHub Codespaces in great shape.

Update: The work on codespaces is more involved than we originally anticipated. Most of us didn't make the progress that you usually see in our house-keeping iterations.

Endgame

• October 26, 2020: Endgame begins
• October 30, 2020: Endgame done

The endgame details for this iteration are tracked in #109419.

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

Housekeeping

• 🏃 Issue/PR Grooming - review, categorization, assignment 2020 Issue Grooming - review, categorization, assignment #108472 team

Accessibility

• Accessibility issues, see query team

Workbench

• Use encrypted keychain for account management Use encrypted keychain for account management #95475 @RMacfarlane @sbatten
• 🏃 💪 Explore the concept of Trusted Workspaces General Discussion on Workspace Trust Feature #106488 @Tyriar @lszomoru

UX

• 🏃 Explore possible integrations between extensions view and GH Sponsors Explore integration between extensions view and GitHub Sponsors #107482 @misolori
• 🏃 Explore improvements to welcome pages Explore improvements to welcome pages #106715 @misolori @JacksonKearl
• Make suggest widget resizable feature-request: possibility to change the size of description popup #29126 @jrieken

Notebook Editor

• 🏃 Identify and fill API gaps for Live Share API gaps to support Liveshare in Notebook #102503 @rebornix
• Explore improved UX for kernel management Explore ux for switching notebook kernels/connections #106519 @misolori

API

• API finalization: query

Extension Contributions

• Improvements to the Remote extensions Remote: Iteration Plan for October 2020 vscode-remote-release#3834 team

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Deferred Items

• All work that was in-flight end of September. We'll resume that work in early November.