Iteration Plan for November 2022

[kieferrm]

This plan captures our work in November. This is a 5-week iteration. We will ship in early December. Heads-up, we'll use the month of December for our annual house keeping iterations. So, this is the plan for the last stable release of the year.

Endgame

• November 28, 2022: Endgame begins
• December 2, 2022: Endgame done

The endgame details for this iteration are tracked here.

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

Accessibility

• Accessibility issues, see query @meganrogge @isidorn team
• Improve accessibility of Setting indicators vscode#159088 @rzhao271
• Fix accessibility issues in the welcome page query @bhavyaus

UX

• Identify Getting Started walkthrough improvements vscode#165846 @daviddossett @bhavyaus
• 🏃 Explore surfacing the remote experiences on the welcome page vscode-internalbacklog#3276 @bhavyaus
• Provide guidance for usage of Quick Pick titles vscode#158895 @daviddossett
• Identify improvements to workbench usability and aesthetic vscode#115641 @daviddossett
• 🏃 Explore updated built-in themes vscode#164924 @daviddossett

Workbench

• Exploration: Sharing profiles vscode#159891 @sandy081 @isidorn
• Allow hiding of badges for view containers vscode#158781 @lramos15
• Support exclusions for the explorer's autoReveal behavior vscode#136905 @lramos15
• Investigate issue with users getting stuck in restricted mode vscode#161362 @sbatten
• Swap Continue On item picker and asking for auth order vscode#165409 @joyceerhl
• Remove mention of edit sessions from: vscode#165408 @joyceerhl
• 🏃 Surface Continue On in more places vscode#165406 @joyceerhl

Web

WebAssembly Runtime Support

• Provide pluggable device drivers in WASM-WASI vscode-wasm#28@dbaeumer
• 🏃 💪 Explore provide a web-shell shell-engine-js#1 @dbaeumer @Tyriar

Code Editor

• Explore accepting parts of an inline completion proposal vscode#140708 @hediet
• Explore moving tokenization to a web worker vscode#147066 @hediet
• Have a setting to not focus suggestions vscode#151336 @jrieken

Merge Editor

• Participate in undo stack vscode#158864 @hediet
• Replace "Mark as Handled" with "Ignore" actions vscode#165696 @hediet

Notebook Editor

• 🏃 Explore a built-in variables viewer vscode#165445 @roblourens
• 🏃 Enable scrollable notebook outputs vscode-jupyter#7096 @amunger
• 💪 Drop NotebookContentProvider usage in the Interactive Window vscode#165252 @amunger
• Use consistent origin in backlayer webview for notebooks to improve caching vscode#145567 @mjbvz
• Help users diagnose notebook rendering perf issues vscode#154873 @mjbvz
• Improvements to notebook opening performance query @mjbvz
• 🏃 Allow searching dirty changes in open notebook editors in global search vscode#95275 @andreamah
• 🏃 Allow searching rich content in notebooks in global search vscode#164926 @andreamah

Jupyter Notebooks

• Contributions to the vscode-jupyter extension vscode-jupyter#11922 team

Languages

Language Server Protocol

• Publish new LSP release Fixed issue @dbaeumer

Python

• Contributions to the python extension vscode-python#20161 @brettcannon team

Python WebAssembly Runtime Support

• Implement a debug device driver for Python Branch @dbaeumer
• Help getting pdb work in the web PR @dbaeumer

JavaScript/TypeScript

• 🏃 Explore automatic type acquisition on web typescript#45314 @mjbvz

Debug

• Implement StartDebugging DAP request vscode#160169 @roblourens
• Provide support for console.profile vscode-js-debug#1443 @connor4312

Debug Adapter Protocol

• EOF behavior debug-adapter-protocol#239 @connor4312 @roblourens @weinand
• 🏃 Memory reuse debug-adapter-protocol#238 @connor4312 @roblourens @weinand

Testing

• 💪 Related code vscode#126932 @connor4312
• 💪 Auto run tests vscode#134941 @connor4312

Comments

• Additional actions in the Comment Thread vscode#163281 @alexr00

Terminal

• Allow extensions to contribute terminal quick fixes vscode#145234 @meganrogge
• Adopt editor quick fix widget for terminal quick fixes vscode#162067 @meganrogge

Tasks

• Add run task action to terminal dropdown vscode#162469 @meganrogge
• Investigate duplicate build tasks vscode#159640 @meganrogge

Source Control

• Explore implementing certain git status operations without spawning git vscode#64234 @lszomoru
• Responsive UI updates handling of slow status updates in large mono repos vscode#162417 @lszomoru
• SCM: Notification API vscode#161200 @lszomoru
• Git: Improve unsafe repository warning vscode#157159 @lszomoru

API

• API finalization: query @jrieken @mjbvz
• API proposals: query @jrieken @mjbvz
• 🏃 Continue finalization of remaining proposed notebook API vscode#149861 @mjbvz @rebornix @roblourens
• Improve Extensions logging vscode#159892 @sandy081

Extension Contributions

• Improvements to the Remote extensions vscode-remote-release#7479 @eleanorjboyd @chrmarti @aeschli
• Improvements to the GitHub Repositories extension query @joyceerhl @bhavyaus
• Live Preview: Add option to specify which external browser vscode-livepreview#69 @andreamah
• Live Preview: Add option to specify the root path of the server vscode-livepreview#155 @andreamah
• 🏃 Fix preview of forwarded ports in Codespaces for Simple Browser and Live Preview vscode-livepreview#111 @andreamah @mjbvz
• GHPRI: Show PR review status vscode-pull-request-github#681 @alexr00
• GHPRI: Improve activation performance vscode-pull-request-github#4053 @alexr00
• 🏃 💪 GHPRI: Support GitHub's suggested changes vscode-pull-request-github#603 @alexr00

Performance

• Introduce an Input Latency telemetry event vscode#163184 @Tyriar
• 🏃 Explore migrating from AMD to ESM vscode#160416 @jrieken @alexdima
  • Explore using esbuild for transpilation / bundling @alexdima
  • Explore AMD lazy code loading vscode#164068 @jrieken @alexdima @Tyriar
  • 🔴 Explore splitting main AMD bundle in multiple files @jrieken @alexdima
• 🏃 Investigate moving away from the styler pattern vscode#165478 @aeschli
• Explore mangling of private & protected properties in the codebase vscode#166126 vscode#165429 @jrieken
• Investigate reducing the size of the authentication extensions vscode#165728 @TylerLeonhardt
• Explore improving the loading performance of the Jupyter extension (packing, splitting) vscode-jupyter#11996 @Tyriar
• Why is the npm extension using workspaceContains:package.json? vscode#163480 @joyceerhl
• Generate implicit activation events from extension package.json contributions vscode#164701 @joyceerhl @alexdima @sandy081 @jrieken
• Add a new onNotebookSerializer:* vscode#134127 @joyceerhl
• Explore setTimeout for onStartupFinished extensions vscode#164593 @joyceerhl
• 🏃 Explore running Remote Repositories in a dedicated extension host in vscode.dev vscode-internalbacklog#3204 @joyceerhl
• Load language wasm files on demand vscode-anycode#53 @jrieken
• Eliminate first request to update server on vscode.dev @jrieken
• Generate <script> and <link> tags server-side on vscode.dev vscode-dev#454 @jrieken
• Web: Cache gallery extension resources vscode#165817 @sandy081

Engineering

• Convert LSP and WASM to the new npm publish pipeline #3191 @dbaeumer

Electron

• Enable AutoDisableAccessibility Chromium runtime flag vscode#162331 @deepak1556
• Main Request service is throwing errors for valid requests vscode#155204 @deepak1556
• 🏃 Investigate Electron 22 upgrade vscode#166265 @deepak1556
• Backport getPreferredSystemLanguages API in Electron electron#36035 @rzhao271 @deepak1556
• Adopt display language as locale for electron to properly display WCO vscode#159958 @rzhao271

Documentation

• 🏃 Update Azure Content, ToC vscode-docs#5614 @gregvanl @isidorn
• Update repo locations in Dev Container docs vscode-docs#5736 @bamurtaugh @gregvanl

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Deferred

• Support profiles in remote workspaces vscode#165247 @sandy081
• Settings Editor performance improvements query @rzhao271
• Investigate ways to reduce the performance cost of max results in search vscode#127621 @andreamah
• Adopt webpack for emmet-helper microsoft/vscode-emmet-helper#27 @rzhao271
• Update source control documentation to include the merge editor vscode-docs#5618 @hediet @gregvanl
• Add an Git introductory page vscode-docs#5677 @digitarald
• Restructure and refresh dev containers docs within new Dev Containers node vscode-docs#5737 @bamurtaugh @gregvanl
• Convert LSIF to the new npm publish pipeline #3191 @dbaeumer
• Explore how to better express view display styles (tree versus list) vscode#162595 @daviddossett
• Explore possibility of unifying explorer selection in focus behind a setting @lramos15
• Sandboxing: Explore adopting utility process for shared process vscode#154050 @bpasero @deepak1556
• 🏃 White flashing when opening a new window vscode#132339 @rzhao271 @deepak1556
• Review and update Configure C++ Debugging topic vscode-docs#5518 @gregvanl
• 💪 Explore ways to improve interacting with root files and folders in a crowded explorer view @lramos15 vscode#151630\
• 💪 Stabilize DocumentPasteEditProvider API to support pasting images vscode#30066 @mjbvz

[DetachHead]

sorry if this is the wrong place to ask, but i'm having trouble finding some more info regarding the "Support for nested sourcemaps" mentioned in the release notes. is there an issue/PR with more info since i don't see anything about it here.

i'm trying to find out if it's related to nodejs/node#45196, but it seems to still be broken

[connor4312]

@DetachHead we have a docs section on what you need to tweak 🙂 https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/nodejs/nodejs-debugging#_source-map-discovery